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“Writing a computer virus program is child's play. Any fool can do it, which is why the silly little twerps who do have nothing to be proud of.”

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Author:Richard Dawkins

“On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”

“The reason that no computer program can ever be a mind is simply that a computer program is only syntactical, and minds are more than syntactical. Minds are semantical, in the sense that they have more than a formal structure, they have a content.”

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Author:John Searle

“They say films they are made by computers. There are computer programs to see statistically what people are more interested in, and they practice computer combinations in these things to try to have more viewers.”

People Trying Made Film Practice Computer Program Combination Viewers

Author:Miguel Gomes

“Most composers and arrangers these days use computer programs and keyboards, but I'm one of those dinosaurs that still writes it down on score paper and still dreams it up in his ear first.”

Writing Firsts Stills Use Dream Paper Computer Program Ears These Days Score Composer Dinosaurs Keyboards

Author:Phil Coulter

“It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs.”

Used Purpose Computer Program Used To Be

Book:A Discipline of Programming

Source: A Discipline of Programming

“The early personal computers were not very powerful so the idea of feeding their program into a small amount of memory requires immense skill.”

Ideas Memories Powerful Amount Skills Computer Program Immense Feeding Very Powerful Small Amounts Personal Computers

Author:Bill Gates

“The program I use is called MED Soundstudio. It's basically a column of numbers that relate to pitch, duration, the type of sound. If I want to play a chord, I have to press keys on a keyboard - like a computer keyboard, on my Amiga - that relate to sharps and flats, note by note.”

Ifs Want Play Use Sound Numbers Keys Type Computer Program Presses Notes Relate Flats Chords Columns Keyboards Duration Meds Computer Keyboards

Author:Max Tundra

“I first learnt to program a computer when I was nine, when my dad got a ZX80, but I think I would have had to be a particularly perspicacious child to have foreseen the iPad or Twitter!”

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Author:Suw Charman-Anderson

“The changes are coming so quickly it's been difficult for workers to retrain themselves and for entrepreneurs to figure out where the next opportunities may be. The catalyst is something called computer learning or artificial intelligence - the ability to feed massive amounts of data into supercomputers and program them to teach themselves and improve their performance.”

May Next Opportunity Difficult Ability Teach Figures Amount Computer Program Performances Entrepreneur Workers Data Massive Artificial Intelligence Artificial Catalyst Supercomputers

Author:Andrew McAfee

“Target for example, is just a dot with a circle around it, that's all it is, so if you want a logo like Target, you don't need to hire a designer, you barely need to know how to operate a computer program, the logo may as well be anything.”

Ifs Knows Want Needs Wells May Know How Example Computer Program Circles Designer Target Dots Logos

Author:Michael Bierut

“I'm kind of a tech person, a nerd. I've always been the person who, when we got our Christmas presents, knew how to work them and set them up; the racecars, whatever. Sit me down in front of a computer program, I'll be fine.”

Kind Computer Program Nerd Christmas Present

Author:Alexandra Richards

“I don't think it's possible to teach a person to be an artist. But yet, I'm here, and I suppose this is what I'm expected to do. I teach a course called graphic narrative and one called digital studios, but no matter the topic, the basic principle underlying my "method" of teaching is that a properly prepared artist/creator must simply know everything. Not just how to draw, but how to see. Not just how to use a computer program, but what the word "penultimate" means. And the shape and orientation of a goat's pupil. And where Kentucky and Chile are, at least approximately.”

Thinking Mean Artist Teach Teaching Computer Program Graphic

Author:Phoebe Gloeckner

“What I realized is that if we're going to be able to have a theory about what happens in, for example, nature there has to ultimately be some rule by which nature operates. But the issue is does that rule have to correspond to something like a mathematical equation, something that we have sort of created in our human mathematics? And what I realized is that now with our understanding of computation and computer programs and so on, there is actually a much bigger universe of possible rules to describe the natural world than just the mathematical equation kinds of things.”

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Author:Stephen Wolfram

“What specialists try to do is get at least three imaging processes that are totally different from each other. Then you can run these through a computer program and make a composite image. In one scenario you suspect a brain tumor, so you image the brain tumor with PET scans, MRIs, and CT scans and create a 3D model. The doctor opens up the skull to excise the cancer, but they can't see anything. Do you cut out what's supposed to be in that spot or not? The current story is yes, you believe the images over what you see with your eyes.”

Trying Believe Different Eye Running Brain Cutting Computer Program Cancer Pet

Author:Don Ihde

“Until I reached my late teens, there was not enough money for luxuries - a holiday, a car, or a computer. I learned how to program a computer, in fact, by reading a book. I used to write down programs in a notebook and a few years later when we were able to buy a computer, I typed in my programs to see if they worked. They did. I was lucky.”

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Author:Zia Haider Rahman

“Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.”

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Author:Donald Knuth

“One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can download a program on to it and run it. That's kind of important to me, and that's also kind of important to the whole future of the internet... obviously a closed platform is a serious brake on innovation.”

Writing Kind I Can Important Whole Use Running Serious Internet Computer Program Innovation Platforms Brake Downloads

Author:Tim Berners-Lee

“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

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

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Author:Niklaus Wirth

“I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.”

Writing Firsts Levels Findings Computer Program Deeper Grades

Author:Mark Zuckerberg

“If you don't have a job right now, and you have a computer and a basic intelligence level, I guarantee you can get a great job, paying really well, in less than three months. How? Learn to program.”

Ifs Wells Jobs Three Levels Months Right Now Computer Program Guarantees Three Months Great Job

Author:Tucker Max

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”

“Depression is a lot like that: slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program for total negativity will build into your system, making life feel more and more unbearale. But you won't even notice it coming on, thinking that it is somehow normal, something about getter older, about turning eight or about turning twelve or turning fifteeen, and then one day you realize that your entire life is just awful, not worth living, a horror and a black blot on the white terrain of human existence. One morning you wake up afraid you are going to live.”

“That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.”

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Author:Larry Niven

“The word 'phobic' has its place when properly used, but lately it's been declawed by the pompous insistence that most animosity is based upon fear rather than loathing.”

Mind Used Hate Community Comfortable Computer Program Hatred I Hate Loathing Insistence Animosity Pompous Outreach

Book:Me Talk Pretty One Day

Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day

“Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't get from many other things.”

Ifs Knows Results Computer Program Working It Feedback

Book:The road ahead

Source: The road ahead

“DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.”

Computer Program Biology Software Dna

Book:The road ahead

Source: The road ahead

“Did you ever think that if you told me where Bill's hiding his computer program, I would give you anything you asked for?" - Eric, club dead.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Computer Program Bills Clubs Hiding Eric

Book:Club Dead: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel

Source: Club Dead: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel

“Plainly it isn't an exact science, despite it being a complex interaction of micro-decisions and corresponding thought; perhaps it doesn't always work and we pass by some potential soulmates like the proverbial ships in the night, never quite connecting. Then again, perhaps the system is tenacious and continues to run like a computer program on infinite loop, so that if at first you don't meet, you are drawn back together for another try.”

“Supporters of this fundamental change in immigration policy say we need to import more well-educated talent if we're to stay competitive. But exactly whose competitiveness are we talking about? Not the competitiveness of, say, American-born computer engineers. Adjusted for inflation, their earnings haven't gone anywhere in years. That's in part because American companies have been sending so much of their high-tech work abroad. Bringing more foreign-born engineers here under an expanded H1-B visa program, or a point system for that matter, will just depress wages even further.”

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