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“When you say "bank," a bank is a building, a set of computers and chairs and things. The bankers are the people running these banks. They're the chief officers, and they push the loans because they don't care if they go bad. For one thing, they may package these bad loans and sell them off to gullible institutional investors.”

People Ifs May Care Running One Thing Building Computer Sells Don't Care Chiefs Chairs Officers Investors Loan Packages Bankers Gullible

Author:Michael Hudson

“Computers combine things to make new knowledge at such high speed that we cannot absorb it.”

Computer Speed High Speed New Knowledge

Author:Orson Welles

“When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.”

Writing Firsts Able Easy Lines Silence Type Despair Computer Sitting Sentences Screens Pens Desks Pads Computer Screen

Author:Erica Jong

“Ever since I first used a computer in the early '80s, I've thought of it as a fundamentally new medium for the dissemination of ideas which can transform people's lives and the society we live in.”

People Firsts Ideas Used Computer Mediums 80s Dissemination

Author:Mike McCue

“To be a modern person in 2012, you are often required to have some electronics in your life. And I do. I try to put that phone down, put the computer away, and get out there and hike in the woods; feel it in my feet, feel it in my hands; get out in the garden and feel the soil under my fingers, my fingertips and my fingernails. I try to be involved in nature in a very tactile way. I think that's important.”

Thinking Way Feels Trying Persons Important Hands Feet Modern Involved Computer Garden Fingers Phones Woods Soil Fingertips Electronics Fingernails Tactile

Author:Ed Begley, Jr.

“I've also learned from [Dalai Lama] that we make the world by how we choose to look at it. In any situation you can make it constructive or dismaying, depending on that powerful computer we call the mind.”

World Mind Looks Powerful Situation Computer Constructive Lama Dalai

Author:Pico Iyer

“When I look at what I'm doing today, I see [the] roots in my college life. I was the online editor of my college paper and an active member of the Harvard Computer Society. I abandoned a summer internship at the Washington Post due to injury and instead did theatre. I found my comedic voice through satirical newsletters in college.”

“I am somebody who usually writes out the rough draft in longhand. Then I type it into the computer, and that is where I do my editing. I find that if I write it on the computer, I go too quick. So I like getting that first draft out and then typing it in; you are less self-conscious about it.”

Ifs Writing Firsts Self Type Computer Conscious Rough Editing Self Conscious Typing Rough Drafts

Author:Barack Obama

“If I have an idea in my head, within no time it's into the computer, it may take more time to make it sound right, but that's the only issue.”

Ifs May Ideas Sound Issues Computer More Time

Author:Martin Garrix

“I'm basically a computer science nerd.”

Computer Nerd Computer Science

Author:Rebecca Moore

“There's so many things happening with computers and what-not, where we may be able to live until 150 and even longer, but if the planet's not here for us to live on it, if we burn ourselves out from global warming and everything else, if we don't figure that out, if we don't figure out an alternative form of energy, I think we're in big, fat trouble.”

Ifs Thinking May Bigs Able Form Energy Trouble Figures Planets Computer Happenings Things Happen Fats Alternatives Global Warming

Author:Lisa Rinna

“I don't want to blame anybody, but I just want to tell you that the process of writing is antisocial, so on the days that you have something really important to write, go from lying down directly to your notepad or your computer. Do not talk.”

Want Writing Important Lying Process Computer Blame Antisocial Lying Down Notepads

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“Believe me, that nap is better than sitting there for three hours and nothing's coming. I've learned that even if I've slept nine hours and I just finished breakfast, if I feel sleepy when I'm in front of that computer, I'll take a nap. And it really does help.”

Ifs Feels Believe Doe Helping Three Hours Fronts Computer Sitting Finished Nine I've Learned Breakfast Believe In Me Naps Sleepy

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“I am not one of the new media experts working all the time with my computers and the PowerPoint's and things of that sort. So, I'm an old fashioned still in this regard but these are the moment where I really can be creative, if I am, to be left alone with just a book and piece of paper and to be thinking.”

Ifs Thinking Stills Book Moments Left Creative Pieces Media Paper Computer Regard Experts Be Creative Old Fashioned Left Alone New Media Powerpoint Working All The Time

Author:Ahmed H. Zewail

“We live in an age where technology is so powerful that we can make change without even leaving our computers or cell phones.”

Age Powerful Technology Computer Leaving Phones Cells Cell Phone

Author:Sadie Calvano

“My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn't realize it was at the peak at the time.”

Realizing Happened Computer Majors Percent Economics Computer Science Undergraduate

Author:Melinda Gates

“Let's reuse whatever we have now, stop making more of it, take what we gather, and make - whether it's car parts, computer cases, anything that we can use.”

Use Cases Car Computer Reuse

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“Here are a few ways to face a habit and say "no" to it: Go outside your fixed routine; turn off the computer and the television; find a new outlet for your down time; talk to someone who holds a viewpoint contrary to yours and pay respectful attention, really listening.”

Way Faces Turns Pay Attention Television Listening Habit Computer Contrary Fixed Routine Outlets Respectful Viewpoints Turn Off Down Time

Author:Deepak Chopra

“When Paul [Greengrass] was writing, he'd send me story ideas that he had. He was particularly interested in social movements and revolutions that had been happening all over the world, and how computers and the internet had helped those movements. He encouraged me to read a book about Anonymous, the hacker group called "white hat" hackers, meaning they're driven by ideology and social disruption as opposed to just greed.”

World Writing Book Ideas Stories Social White Groups Movement Revolution Internet Computer Happenings Greed Driven Ideology Hats Disruption Hackers Social Movements

Author:Julia Stiles

“Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.”

Men Want Government Business Computer

Author:Erykah Badu

“Comedy can't live within my second-guesses, so I started doing new material. Sometimes I bombed. But you have to be willing to if you want to move forward and stay vital. It's like people who take pride in not having a computer. I'm all, "Great, don't learn new things! Your brain is full!"”

People Ifs Want Sometimes Moving Brain Comedy Willing Materials Pride Computer Moving Forward New Things

Author:Sarah Silverman

“There are many innovators hard at work seeking to perfect alternatives to meat, milk, and eggs. These food products will, like computer-generated graphics or photography or sound systems, just keep getting better and better until there is little difference between an animal-based protein and a plant-based one, or farm-produced versus cultured meat. That will make it easy for people to make the kinds of choices that will usher in a world with far less violence.”

“If you look at a cartoon on a computer screen, it really jumps and can be quite effective.”

Ifs Looks Computer Screens Cartoon Computer Screen

Author:Terry Mosher

“I still write with pen and paper and have someone type it on a computer. But rewriting I do by hand.”

Writing Stills Hands Type Paper Computer Pens Rewriting

Author:Natalie Goldberg

“The reason I said the Internet is dangerous is that a couple smart guys could hack into a computer and shut down the Eastern seaboard if they wanted to. It's a terrible, out-of-control thing.”

Ifs Said Reason Wanted Guy Dangerous Couple Internet Terrible Computer Smart Eastern Hacks Smart Guy

Author:John Mellencamp

“I'm not that particularly talented in terms of making anything or - I'm not technically efficient. I certainly don't know how to draw very well or paint, and I'm not good with computers. But I think the thing that I'm good at is willing something into life, no matter what. I do what it takes to get it done.”

Thinking Knows Wells Matter Done Term Know How Willing Computer Draws No Matter What Paint Efficient Get It Done

Author:Gregory Crewdson

“When I'm sitting at my computer writing, I really have this fiendish smile on my face. I am not thinking about the past or the future or how it's going to be received. I feel that I'm very lucky that way; I don't carry that particular anxiety around with me. I'm not anxiety-free by any means, but that happens to be one that I've been spared.”

Thinking Way Feels Writing Mean Happens Past Faces Particular Lucky Anxiety Computer Sitting Smile On My Face Thinking About The Past

Author:Maria Semple

“People want to see realism in action now. People want the actors to perform than the computers performing. Though I have done both, I enjoy the realism of action more.”

People Want Done Action Actors Enjoy Computer Performing Realism

Author:Akshay Kumar

“Managing senior programmers is like herding cats.”

Computer Cat Senior Programmers Herding Cats

Author:David Platt

“Besides creating more compulsive gamblers, money spent on lotteries isn't spent on other goods such as clothing or computers, which would trickle through to retailers, manufacturers and other parts of the economy”

Economy Computer Creating Gambling Goods Clothings Lottery Retailers

Author:John Warren Kindt

“Are we expected to live in a world where we can no longer send death threats to colleagues via email? Where we can no longer IM other people to suggest physically improbable and morally dodgy sexual practices? Where doctoring photos of people to place them in legally compromising positions is frowned upon? Who wants to live in that sort of world? Not this column, that's for sure.”

People World Want Practice Position Computer Threat Expected Compromise Colleagues Email Columns Improbable Doctoring

Author:Ian O'Doherty

“Writing relies on very few things, my friend. All you need to write is your brain, a way to convey the story into existence (pen, computer, whatever), and a place in which to do it (office, kitchen table, lunar brothel).”

Way Needs Writing Stories Existence Brain Office Computer My Friends Tables Rely Kitchen Pens Kitchen Table Brothels

Author:Chuck Wendig

“Personally I am not very self-reliant when it comes to internet and computers.”

Self Internet Computer Self Reliant

Author:Domenico Dolce

“To all the secret writers, late-night painters, would-be singers, lapsed and scared artists of every stripe, dig out your paintbrush, or your flute, or your dancing shoes. Pull out your camera or your computer or your pottery wheel. Today, tonight, after the kids are in bed or when your homework is done, or instead of one more video game or magazine, create something, anything. Pick up a needle and thread, and stitch together something particular and honest and beautiful, because we need it. I need it. Thank you, and keep going.”

“In games against humans, you often win because the opponent blunders a piece, and you can often survive when you do it yourself. Against the computer, you make only one mistake - the last one.”

Humans Lasts Games Winning Mistake Pieces Computer Opponents Blunders Do It Yourself One Mistake

Author:Vladimir Kramnik

“There are two types of computer languages; those that people hate and those that nobody uses.”

People Two Use Hate Language Type Computer Computer Language

Author:John Ousterhout

“The key is to let computers do what they are good at, which is trawling these massive data sets for something that is mathematically odd. And that makes it easier for humans to do what they are good at - explaining those anomalies.”

Humans Keys Easier Computer Data Odd Massive Explaining Anomalies

Author:Daniel Bruhl

“My mom's a chemist, so she's pretty smart. I love technology and I can handle myself around a computer.”

I Can Technology Mom Computer Smart My Mom Handle Chemist

Author:Lucas Till

“Erich Mendelsohn's drawings are expressive and beautiful. If he'd had the computers we have now, everything I've done he would have done before me. I would have had to figure out something else.”

Ifs Done Beautiful Figures Computer Drawing Expressive

Author:Frank Gehry

“Everything - design and technology and materials - has changed since the World Trade Center was built. A lot of it has to do with computers, which allow us to be far more efficient as well as structurally sound.”

World Wells Sound Technology Design Changed Materials Computer Built Trade Efficient World Trade World Trade Center

Author:Frank Gehry

“Computers allow architects to remain parental instead of being marginalized by the contractors and managers.”

Computer Managers Architect Parental Marginalized Contractor

Author:Frank Gehry

“With computers we can work everything out from the beginning.”

Computer

Author:Frank Gehry

“The brain, being analog, is able to grasp images so much better. The brain is just designed for comparing images and some patterns - patterns in space and patterns in time - which we do amazingly well. Computers can do it, too, but not in anything like the same kind of flexibility.”

Wells Kind Able Can Do Space Brain Computer Patterns Compare Flexibility Analog

Author:Freeman Dyson

“Imagine being able to make it difficult for an ISIS commander to talk to his fighters in the field just by placing a piece of malware on his computer network.”

Able Difficult Pieces Imagine Fields Computer Fighter Isis Commanders

Author:Dina Temple-Raston

“I was working on a piece for one of the things I was dancing to and I needed to have original music. I didn't know where to begin, I'm so bad at computers, and I remembered that he actually made music. I asked Astro Raw if he'd be interested in scoring and he said yes.”

Ifs Knows Made Said Pieces Needed Computer Originals Dancing Remembered Original Music

Author:Jillian Hervey

“When we look at these historical women and what they've gone through, it's shocking to recognize some of our own experiences in theirs. When you look at someone like Ada Lovelace who is the first computer programmer, during her lifetime doctors said that was really sick because she was trying to use a masculine kind of brain that she didn't have. Today, her legacy of being the first programmer is stil disputed.”

Trying Firsts Looks Kind Said Use Today Brain Gone Computer Doctors Sick Historical Lifetime Legacy Shocking Masculine Programmers Computer Programmers Ada

Author:Anita Sarkeesian

“I'm a physicist, and we have something called Moore's Law, which says computer power doubles every 18 months. So every Christmas, we more or less assume that our toys and appliances are more or less twice as powerful as the previous Christmas.”

Law Powerful Months Computer Assuming Christmas Toys Physicist Appliances Moore's Law

Author:Michio Kaku

“I think some of the most interesting stuff was seeing how the Dark Web works and seeing how easy it is for hackers to break into your computer or your bank account or your private information.”

Thinking Easy Stuff Dark Interesting Break Seeing Information Computer Accounts Most Interesting Bank Accounts Hackers Interesting Stuff

Author:Scott Eastwood

“I definitely have a piece of tape over my computer at home.”

Home Pieces Computer Tape

Author:Scott Eastwood

“Silicon Valley, after all, feeds off the existence of computers, the internet, the IT systems, satellites, the whole of micro electronics and so on, but a lot of that comes straight out of the state sector of the economy. Silicon Valley developed, but they expanded and turned it into commercial products and so on, but the innovation is on the basis of fundamental technological development that took places in places like this [MIT] on government funding, and that continues.”

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