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“If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.”

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Author:Scott Adams

“The word 'geek' today does not mean what it used to mean. A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something.”

Mean Doe Kids Today Used Games Sports Military Car Computer Passionate Video Pockets Geek Skinny Protector Acne

Book:Suck It, Wonder Woman!: The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek

Source: Suck It, Wonder Woman!: The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek

“The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.”

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Author:Edward R. Murrow

“I'm predicting that we'll finally have a computer will search my e-mail automatically and delete every message that begins with 'thought you'd be interested,' and then give an electrical shock to the sender to remind him or her to stop send that kind of message.”

Giving Kind Computer Messages Shock Mail Electrical Predicting

Author:Scott Adams

“Regardless of how it's done, transaction costs will continue to plummet as computers get more powerful. Low transaction costs are a wonderful thing if you're in the transaction business. They're wonderful for consumers too, making it cheaper and easier to buy things and creating new things to buy.”

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Author:Nathan Myhrvold

“Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.”

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Author:Nathan Myhrvold

“The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of users; every time they get more powerful, old customers upgrade.”

Whole Powerful Industry Computer Customers Appeals Phenomenon Users Cheaper Hardware

Author:Nathan Myhrvold

“Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.”

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Author:Nathan Myhrvold

“Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.”

Men Mind Believe Made I Believe Waste Computer Conscious Tasks Currents Wasting Time Analogies

Book:The View From Nowhere

Source: The View From Nowhere

“The computer cuts my production time in half. I love it.”

Half Cutting Computer Productions

Author:Scott Adams

“I get fed up with plots that are driven by someone constantly getting information on a computer.”

Information Computer Driven Plot Feds Fed Up

Author:Liam Neeson

“Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.”

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Book:Being Digital

Source: Being Digital

“The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.”

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Author:Ted Nelson

“Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.”

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Author:John von Neumann

“There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants.”

Ifs Knows Would Be Able Perfect Impossible Information Computer Photography Photographer Seats Pants Regulation Composition Masterpiece Rules And Regulations

Author:Arnold Newman

“I can barely turn on my computer!”

I Can Turns Computer Turn-on

Author:Jack Nicklaus

“We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.”

World May Important Computer Data Software New World Entering

Author:Tim O'Reilly

“I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.”

Knows Ends Used Computer

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk.”

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Author:Yoko Ono

“To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.”

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Author:Robert Orben

“I heard a computer scientist the other day refer to playing with the Kinect as 'storytelling.' At first I thought that sounded a little high-minded, but after trying a few games I could see what she meant.”

Trying Firsts Littles Games Heard Computer Scientist Storytelling

Author:Susan Orlean

“People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.”

People Thinking Mistake Technology Computer Faster Making Mistakes Classroom I Make Mistakes People Make Mistakes

Author:Adam Osborne

“I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.”

Men Turns Simple Tvs Computer Nightmare And Off Simple Man

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.”

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Author:Alan Perlis

“It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.”

Change Fit Easier Computer Program Vices Programming Vice Versa Computer Programming Computer Software Specifications

Author:Alan Perlis

“For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce.”

“A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.”

“My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.”

Humor Computer Beats Witty Kickboxing Checkers

Author:Emo Philips

“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”

“Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.”

“Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition or by computer, by invention or by a system of coordinates, is not good design if it does not communicate.”

Ifs Doe Design Computer Communicate Intuition Invention Graphic Evoke Graphic Design Symmetry Good Design Coordinates Gestalt Graphic Design Inspiration Asymmetry

Author:Paul Rand

“Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.”

Ifs Thinking Way Humor Happens Funny Time Technology Imagine Computer Shoes Complaining Odd Usual Tied Thursday

Author:Jef Raskin

“There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.”

People Writing May Groups Computer Occasional Typewriters

Author:Anne Rice

“When Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak created Apple computer in a garage in Palo Alto, it heralded the beginning of the PC revolution that ultimately dealt a death-blow to dozens of older companies.”

Jobs Company Revolution Computer Blow Apples Dozen Garage

Author:Eric Ries

“UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.”

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Author:Dennis Ritchie

“My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity. I got involved in real computers and programming mainly by being - well, I was interested even as I came to graduate school.”

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Author:Dennis Ritchie

“Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.”

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Author:Andy Rooney

“Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.”

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Author:Andy Rooney

“Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.”

May Literature Waste Paper Computer Percent Classroom Garbage Printed

Book:Not That You Asked...

Source: Not That You Asked...

“Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.”

Thinking Computer Classroom Computer Technology

Author:Jean Rostand

“People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role.”

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Author:Mstislav Rostropovich

“Bounty hunters these days - because everything is so sophisticated with computers and surveillance, it doesn't have to be a one-man-army-type guy who goes in and kicks a door down.”

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Author:Mickey Rourke

“It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.”

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Author:Mike Royko

“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.”

“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.”

“I am very bad at computers. I don't really know how to write email.”

Knows Writing Know How Computer Email

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.”

Should Humans Car Computer Bugs

Author:Eric Schmidt

“The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day.”

People Thinking Problem Faces Computer Solve Proof Apples Google Computer Science

Author:Eric Schmidt

“People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.”

People Memories Our Lives Computer Intuition

Author:Eric Schmidt

“Google docs and spreadsheets don't work if you're on an airplane. But it's a technical problem that is going to get solved. Eventually you will be able to work on a plane as if you are connected and, then when you get reconnected to the Internet, your computer will just synchronize with the cloud.”

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Author:Eric Schmidt

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