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“I've come to a view that humans will continue to do what we do well, and that computers will continue to do what they do very well, and the two will coexist, but in different spaces.”

Humans Wells Two Different Space Views Computer Coexist

Author:Eric Schmidt

“I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book.”

I Can Book Computer Down And Loathe

Author:Will Self

“The whole aesthetics of computers very much feeds into my OCD. They fill my head with obsessionalities and my actions become very repetitive. It seems quite inimical to the dreamy state out of which fiction comes which seems so much less causally repetitive than the way one works on computers.”

Way States Whole Seems Action Fiction Computer Aesthetics Repetitive Dreamy Ocd

Author:Will Self

“The perils of credit and debt, especially perilous in the computer age, have long been acknowledged in pop culture, but very infrequently by TV.”

Long Age Culture Tvs Computer Pops Credit Debt Peril Pop Culture

Author:Tom Shales

“I see people putting text messages on the phone or computer and I think, 'Why don't you just call?'”

People Thinking Computer Messages Phones Text Message

Author:William Shatner

“Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.”

Film Scene Computer Draws Aliens Extras Sci Fi Epic Sci Fi Film

Author:William Shatner

“The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.”

Thinking Men Real Problem Science Technology Computer Machines Intelligence Favourite Real Problems Science And Technology Computer Technology Science Technology Technology And Education Technology In Education Educational Technology

Author:B. F. Skinner

“I was asked by an editor to consider writing something about an American inventor. I asked him if he knew who invented the computer. He said he didn't. In that case, I told him, I should write a book about John Vincent Atanasoff.”

Ifs Should Writing Said Book Cases Computer Editors Inventor

Author:Jane Smiley

“I've got stress like anybody else, and it builds up during the day. Like, I'll be trying to do something on the computer, and I'll get stuck ,so I go to the help section. And it just enrages me, because why even call it a help section at all? There's nothing in any way 'helpful' about it.”

Way Trying Helping Computer Stress Stuck Helpful Sections

Author:Lewis Black

“I'm not very computer savvy.”

Computer Savvy

Author:Emma Stone

“If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.”

Ifs Company Car Computer Driving Guarantees Ibm

Author:James Surowiecki

“I wouldn't call myself a geek, but I do sometimes teach Mommy and Daddy stuff about computers. And I do watch TV, but only informative programmes like the news and documentaries.”

Sometimes Stuff Watches Teach Tvs Computer News Documentaries Daddy Geek Programmes Informative Mommy And Daddy

Author:Adora Svitak

“'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.”

Mean Persons Faces Song Next Felt Levels Computer Ruins Next Day

Author:Taylor Swift

“Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to.”

Knows Computer Agree Screens Clicks Disclosure Computer Screen

Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.”

Humans Science Growth Worry Flower Computer Lists Sunshine Engineering Plastic Behaviour Genetic Engineering Cloning Funny Science Plastic Flowers Human Cloning

Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.”

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Author:Ken Thompson

“The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.”

Together Science Next Talking Computer Majors Function Substance Explosions Genetics Change Management Future Shock Semiconductors

Author:Alvin Toffler

“Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer.”

Fronts Computer Communicate Just Being Geek Linux

Author:Linus Torvalds

“Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.”

Economy Worst Computer Software

Author:Linus Torvalds

“A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.”

Ifs Believe Humans Computer Deserve Intelligent Deception Programming Deceiving Hype

Author:Alan Turing

“I've found throughout the years that I needed a place where I can go with no TV, no computer, no phone and just have no distractions and just be able to sit and think and just not be disturbed.”

Thinking Years I Can Able Found Tvs Needed Computer Phones Distraction Disturbed

Author:Josh Turner

“Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.”

Humans Facts Player Computer Chess Champion Beaten Formidable Chess Players

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?”

Thinking Doe Stars Space Talking Computer Silver Episodes Helmet Foils Aluminum Foil

Author:Tracey Ullman

“When we launched the WineLibrary website in 1996, I didn't even own a computer yet. I just understood that there was an opportunity here to market in a different way.”

Way Different Opportunity Computer Understood Different Ways Website

Author:Gary Vaynerchuk

“I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.”

People Reason Technology Democracy Paper Computer Machines Educated Voting No Reason Trails Computer Technology

Author:Eddie Vedder

“It just didn't occur to me, sitting at my computer, that I would end up travelling all over the world.”

World Ends Computer Sitting

Author:Jimmy Wales

“I use many different gadgets connected with computers; I use PCs, laptops and a Palm Pilot. I also use the Internet to visit websites, especially within Polish-language Internet. I usually go to political discussion groups and sites - of course, as I use my real name, people never believe that they are chatting with me!”

People Believe Different Real Use Political Courses Names Language Groups Internet Computer Connected Discussion Pilots Site Palms Polish Website Laptops Gadgets Chatting

Author:Lech Walesa

“I remember when I first came around, the computer-generated stuff was pretty wicked. I was like, 'Wow!' but I feel like then for the longest time, we saw so much of it, after a while, you might as well just be watching an animated movie.”

Feels Firsts Wells Might Remember Stuff Saws Computer Wicked Wow Remember When Animated Animated Movies

Author:Paul Walker

“Limit or eliminate late-night computer and television viewing. A computer or TV screen may seem much dimmer than a light bulb, but these screens often fill your field of vision, mimicking the effects of a room filled with light.”

May Light Seems Night Rooms Vision Effects Fields Television Tvs Limits Computer Late Filled Screens Bulbs Late Night Light Bulb Mimicking

Author:Andrew Weil

“Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated.”

Made Easy Internet Computer Made It Opinionated Rant

Author:Scott Weiland

“I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.”

Inspirational Type Internet Computer

Author:Jack Welch

“I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.”

Mind Humans Facts Literature Brain Theory Goes On Computer Blow Human Mind Overload

Author:Erma Bombeck

“Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.”

Book Computer Clubs Medical Hospitals Hospitality Getting High Book Club Resigning

Author:Erma Bombeck

“I've seen plenty of films where the projector broke. The problems that we have in the digital age are exactly the same as we had. Instead of, 'There's a hair in the gate,' it's, 'The computer ate the footage.' There will always be things like that going on. Nothing is perfect.”

Problem Age Film Perfect Hair Computer Plenty Broke Digital Gates Digital Age Projectors Nothing Is Perfect

Author:Joss Whedon

“I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.”

Should Teacher Politician Computer Fake People Recycling Massage Laptops Laptop Computers

Author:A. N. Wilson

“I am severely distracted these days. It's hard to sit in front of the computer, uploading bad music for hours, when you have a wonderful boyfriend who treats you like a Goddess.”

Hard Funny Hours Music Wonderful Fronts Computer Treats These Days Cute Goddess Distracted Boyfriend Bad Music Cute Boyfriend

Author:April Winchell

“I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.”

Knows Mean Know How Computer Mail

Author:Kate Winslet

“In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.”

World Forever Computer Program Remains Practicals Individualism Uncommon Computing Pumpkin

Author:Niklaus Wirth

“Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.”

Technology Computer Window Programming Programmers Computer Programming Never Trust Computer Programmers Computer Technology

Author:Steve Wozniak

“I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.”

Thinking Should Made Games Economy Tvs Computer Screens Video Typewriters

Author:Steve Wozniak

“In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.”

Littles Ends Economy Computer Notes

Author:Steve Wozniak

“It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.”

Book Real Would Be Nice Design Computer Stores Being Nice Briefcases

Author:Steve Wozniak

“My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.”

Goal Money Economy Computer

Author:Steve Wozniak

“My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.”

Life Whole Economy Design Computer Whole Life

Author:Steve Wozniak

“What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.”

Play Running Used Games Speak Language Economy Type Proud Computer Tragedy Screens Programming Annoying Programming Languages Keyboards

Author:Steve Wozniak

“If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.”

Ifs Men Technology Computer Fingers Programming Buttons Limbs Computer Programming Science And Technology Atrophy Science Technology Mechanization

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.”

“A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.”

Book Reading Wonderful Bed Computer Library Screens Contrast Literacy Wonderful Things Librarian Book Reading Reading And Literacy Computer Screen

Author:Daniel J. Boorstin

“If you can't hear me, it's because I'm in parentheses.”

Ifs Humor Funny Computer Parentheses

Author:Steven Wright

“The computer allows me to execute my ideas at the speed I think them.”

Thinking Ideas Computer Speed

Author:will.i.am

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