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“One thing I was thinking about the other day was you can't even conceive of the kinds of things you can do in movies today. The idea that you could draw, in a computer, dinosaurs and have them running around was totally impossible.”

Thinking Kind Ideas Running Today Can Do Impossible One Thing Computer Draws Dinosaurs

Author:John Badham

“Think about the way you go surfing on the Internet - you go from one thing to another. You can't really concentrate. I can't sit and read 10 pages on my computer. You'll read and then all of a sudden part of your brain is like, "What about that? ...You're not reading the whole book. You're reading fragments. Even though I think it's bad, I think it's interesting too, because that's the way my brain works.”

Thinking Way I Can Book Whole Reading Interesting Brain One Thing Internet Computer Pages Fragments Surfing

Author:Ali Banisadr

“Why is computer science a good field for women? For one thing, thats where the jobs are, and for another, the pay is better than for many jobs, and finally, its easier to combine career and family.”

Jobs Pay Careers One Thing Fields Easier Computer Computer Science

Author:Madeleine M. Kunin

“One thing is certain: the riddle of mind, long a topic for philosophers, has taken on new urgency. Under pressure from the computer, the question of mind in relation to machine is becoming a central cultural preoccupation. It is becoming for us what sex was to the Victorians--threat and obsession, taboo and fascination.”

Source: The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit

“If you ask anybody at Cyber Command or look at any of the job listings for openings for their positions, you'll see that the one thing they don't prioritize is computer network defense. It's all about computer network attack and computer network exploitation at Cyber Command.”

Ifs Looks Jobs Asks One Thing Position Computer Defense Opening Command Exploitation Prioritize Cyber

Author:Edward Snowden

“Computers and rocket ships are examples of invention, not of understanding. ... All that is needed to build machines is the knowledge that when one thing happens, another thing happens as a result. It's an accumulation of simple patterns. A dog can learn patterns. There is no "why&rdqo"; in those examples. We don't understand why electricity travels. We don't know why light travels at a constant speed forever. All we can do is observe and record patterns.”

“The one thing computers have done is let us make bigger mistakes. We have to be careful not to depend on our machines.”

Done Mistake One Thing Depends Computer Machines Bigger Careful Be Careful

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“Your mind and a computer have one thing in common: neither of them know the difference between the truth... and what you tell it.”

Knows Mind Differences Common One Thing Computer

Author:Ken Blanchard

“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

“Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor.”

People Ifs One Thing Honest Figures Mets Computer Conviction Granted Suspects Sense Of Humor Doubted Took For Granted

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“It's just one thing after another. Cars that won't run. Planes that will never fly again. Computer systems we can barely use, let alone re-create. It's like...time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future.”

Use Running One Thing Car Computer Ruins Planes Just One Computer Systems One Thing After Another

Author:Dan Wells

“It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.”

Thinking Use One Thing Computer Tools

Book:The Hunt for Red October

Source: The Hunt for Red October