Home / Topics / Computer Quotes

Computer Quotes

Browse 3308 quotes about Computer.

Computer Quotes

“I have a respect for the 3-D computer-generated action movies, but my first love is stuff like 'Lethal Weapon.”

Firsts Action Stuff Love Is Computer Weapons First Love Action Movie Lethal Weapon

Author:Josh Peck

“To play chess on a truly high level requires a constant stream of exact, informed decisions, made in real time and under pressure from your opponent. What's more, it requires a synthesis of some very different virtues, all of which are necessary to good decisions: calculatioñ, creativity and a desire for results. If you ask a Grandmaster, an artist and a computer scientist what makes a good chess player, you'll get a glimpse of these different strengths in action.”

Source: How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom

“You can actually improvise a lot as a voice actor. It's not that entirely different than shooting a live action movie; the characters mouths are quite easy to manipulate once all the information is built into the computer. So you can improvise a lot and it doesn't matter really how far along they are in the process they can really just make the character say something different.”

Different Matter Character Action Actors Easy Process Voice Information Computer Mouths Built Shooting Manipulate Action Movie

Author:Seth Rogen

“Computer mediation seems to bathe action in a more conditional light: perhaps it happened; perhaps it didn't. Without the layeredrichness of direct sensory engagement, the symbolic medium seems thin, flat, and fragile.”

Reality Light Seems Action Happened Computer Direct Mediums Flats Fragile Engagement Realism Symbolic Sensory Mediation Conditional

Book:In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power

Source: In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power

“You feel as if you're not living a full life. Which, of course, is why - it's my theory about why so many people who are heavily into computers are also into extreme sports and S&M. It's because their bodies are crying out for some kind of action.”

People Ifs Feels Kind Body Action Courses Sports Cry Theory Computer Extremes Full Life Extreme Sports

Author:Brian Eno

“It [moviemaking] is about entertaining audiences with great characters and great stories, you want to make people laugh, you want to make people cry, you want to have great music that is memorable. You want a movie that, as soon as it's over, you want to watch it again, just like that. That's what it is, whether it's live-action, animation, hand drawn, computer, special effects, puppet animation, it doesn't matter. That's the goal of a filmmaker.”

“You'll still work with some directors where that doesn't happen, and sometimes it's out of necessity because you're in a really complicated, choreographed fight scene and the whole thing is being prevised in a computer, so it's been decided months before, but I think that's sneaking into the way action scenes are shot.”

Thinking Way Stills Sometimes Whole Happens Action Fighting Months Scene Directors Computer Shots Decided Complicated

Author:Paul Bettany

“Marketing isn't done by computers, it's done by people. And people who sense opportunity and have the confidence to be remarkable will always defeat defensive actions by people who have given up.”

People Done Action Opportunity Given Computer Marketing Defeat Remarkable Given Up

Author:Seth Godin

“We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.”

Facts Happens Able Action Certain Asks Conditions Computer

Book:Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

“One of my favorite things about the Kung Fu Panda 3 is the look of it. We never go for realism. I think a lot of time when people go for 3D that's the mistake. Because we're never going for full realism - for computer generated live action films like Avatar the goal is realism, to make the audience feel like they are seeing something that is real. Lord of the Rings had character design and environments to make it look real, whereas we aren't going for that, we are going for something that is theatrically, viscerally, and emotionally real.”

“Even with some of the best action films like 'The Bourne Ultimatum,' which is a great action film with a great chase sequence, so much of it is computer-generated. But that doesn't bother me. I think it works. It's fantastic.”

Thinking Action Film Computer Fantastic Bother Working It Sequence Action Films Bourne Ultimatum

Author:William Friedkin

“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

“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

“There has to be the popcorn genre element, or I don't engage the same way. I like action and vehicle design and guns and computer graphics as much as I like allegory. It's a constant balancing game. I want audiences to be on this rollercoaster that fits the Hollywood mould, but I also want them to absorb my observations.”

Way Want Action Games Audience Design Fit Elements Computer Gun Hollywood Constant Observation Genre Vehicle Popcorn Mould Allegory Rollercoaster Computer Graphics

Author:Neill Blomkamp

“Inside the envelope with the letter was a little Princess Leia action figure USB flash drive. For me to store my novel on, since he was right - I never back up my computer's hard drive. The sight of it - it's Princess Leia in her Hoth outfit, my favorite of her costumes (how had he remembered?) brought tears to my eyes.”

Littles Hard Eye Action Novel Figures Tears Computer Letters Sight My Favorite Stores Remembered Princess Flash Costumes Envelopes Leia Action Figures Little Princess

Author:Meg Cabot

“The technocrat is the natural friend of the dictator—computers and dictatorship; but the revolutionary lives in the gap which separates technical progress from social totality, and inscribed there his dream of permanent revolution. This dream, therefore, is itself action, reality, and an effective menace to all established order; it renders possible what it dreams about.”

Dream Reality Action Order Social Natural Progress Revolution Computer Permanent Revolutionary Gaps Dictatorship Dictator Menace Totality

Author:Gilles Deleuze