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“Animation, for me, is a wonderful art form. I never understood why the studios wanted to stop making animation. Maybe they felt that the audiences around the world only wanted to watch computer animation. I didn't understand that, because I don't think ever in the history of cinema did the medium of a film make that film entertaining or not. What I've always felt is, what audiences like to watch are really good movies.”

“I was allowed to have an imagination rather than a need to be entertained all the time by television or computers or anything like that. So, I think it's helpful to try and give your kids.”

Thinking Needs Giving Trying Kids Imagination Television Computer Helpful

Author:Kirsten Dunst

“All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?”

Thinking World Want Kids Age Today School Grows Can Do Hours Growing Up Computer Birthday 60th Birthday Curfew

Author:James Hillman

“So I think things are going to get closer and closer to each other, because the screens will force that to happen. I think there are a lot of movies that people will only see on their computers or their iPods.”

People Thinking Happens Force Computer Screens Ipods

Author:Glenn Close

“The book can't compete with the screen. It couldn't compete beginning with the movie screen. It couldn't compete with the television screen and it can't compete with the computer screen I don't think. And now we have all those screens so against all those screens I think the book can't measure up.”

Thinking Book Television Computer Screens Computer Screen

Author:Philip Roth

“Pro Tools is an incredible resource. I think it's enabled me to do things that I wouldn't have been able to do without this kind of computer editing.”

Thinking Kind Has Beens Able Computer Resources Tools Incredibles Editing

Author:Sufjan Stevens

“Being so alone and so silent for so long gave me the opportunity to see how our brains actually work. I think of that so often in my regular life, as I'm always interacting with people or with my computer or phone.”

People Thinking Long Opportunity Brain Computer Silent Phones Interacting

Author:Cheryl Strayed

“I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting. Like finding some imaginary computer painter, or a robot who paints.”

Thinking Kind Form Painting Findings Computer Paint Painter Imaginary Robots

Author:Damien Hirst

“I think that if they want people to listen to ten or twelve songs, they have to give the listener a reason to listen to ten or twelve songs or to buy ten or twelve and listen to the whole thing instead of just pulling one or two for their iPod or their computer.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Giving Two Reason Whole Song Ten Computer Twelve Listeners Pulling Ipods

Author:David Byrne

“I think that computer programming shows in my writing. Often when I write about computer programmers I'll write about the way that they see the world and they structure the world.”

Thinking World Way Writing Shows Computer Structure Programming Programmers Computer Programming Computer Programmers

Author:Walter Mosley

“So many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that approach. It's kind of like a, well, sometimes Perl has been called the Swiss army chainsaw of the internet, but it's more like a Swiss army machine shop. It really gives you a lot of tools, some of which are dangerous, but it lets you get your job done very quickly.”

“I think what we can do is to develop this incredible computer that we have on our heads, because it's endless. It's just the most brilliant thing we have to develop, and know that we have the power over all of it.”

Thinking Knows Can Do Computer Incredibles Brilliant Endless

Author:Goldie Hawn

“When I think of God I feel like an ant crawling into a computer.”

Thinking Feels Computer Ants Crawling

Author:Richard Paul Evans

“These machines have no common sense; they have not yet learned to "think," and they do exactly as they are told, no more and no less. This fact is the hardest concept to grasp when one first tries to use a computer.”

Thinking Trying Firsts Facts Use Common Computer Concepts Machines Hardest Common Sense No Common Sense

Book:The Art of Computer Programming: Fundamental algorithms

Source: The Art of Computer Programming: Fundamental algorithms

“I was on this path to becoming a computer-science guy, but I didn't like it. I got no joy from it. It was very, very scary. It was suffocating to think that I was just going to do this thing for the rest of my life.”

Thinking Joy Guy Path Becoming Computer Scary Computer Science Suffocating

Author:Kumail Nanjiani

“When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.”

Thinking Mind Kids Found Games Hours Exercise Computer Eight Chess Enjoyed Chess Game Playing Chess

Author:Michael Birch

“I dont think Sugar Man is a music doc any more than The Social Network is about computers. It just happens to have the best soundtrack ever.”

Thinking Men Happens Social Computer Sugar Social Network Soundtracks

Author:Malik Bendjelloul

“Computers are like humans - they do everything except think.”

Thinking Humans Computer

Author:John von Neumann

“I remember that mathematicians were telling me in the 1960s that they would recognize computer science as a mature discipline when it had 1,000 deep algorithms. I think we've probably reached 500.”

Thinking Remember Discipline Computer Mature Mathematician 1960s Computer Science Algorithms

Author:Donald Knuth

“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

“Computers aren't intelligent, they only think they are.”

Thinking Computer Intelligent

Author:Emo Philips

“I think everyone should get a little exposure to computer science because it really forces you to think in a slightly different way, and it's a skill that you can apply in life in general, whether you end up in computer science or not.”

Thinking Way Should Littles Different Ends Force Skills Computer Different Ways Exposure Computer Science

Author:Tony Hsieh

“As part of my research, I read a lot. Then I think and do a lot of sketches. I'll never go to work on the computer unless I have ideas first.”

Thinking Firsts Ideas Computer Research

Author:Noma Bar

“I think to be a rich and successful person in Roman society would be pretty fabulous. They had all of the comforts we want now - central heating, baths, medicine. If I could choose not to indulge in all the things they did I don't agree with, then I could be perfectly comfortable without a mobile phone, computer or anything.”

“I am thinking about something much more important than bombs. I am thinking about computers.”

Thinking Important Computer Bombs

Author:John von Neumann

“We no longer think of chairs as technology, we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often "crash" when we tried to use them. Before long, computers will be as trivial and plentiful as chairs and we will cease to be aware of the things. In fact I'm sure we will look back on this last decade and wonder how we could ever have mistaken what we were doing with them for "productivity"”

Thinking Should Looks Long Facts Use Lasts Wonder Technology Computer Should Have Legs Decades Productivity Cease Chairs Tall Crash Mistaken Plentiful

Author:Douglas Adams

“And I make no apology for linking my thinking with computer technology.”

Thinking Technology Computer Apology Computer Technology

Author:Maxwell Frazer

“For thirty years most interface design, and most comptuer design, has been headed down the path of the "dramatic" machine. Its highest idea is to make a computer so exciting, so wonderful, so interesting, that we never want to be without it. A less-traveled path I call the "invisible"; its highest idea is to make a computer so imbedded, so fitting, so natural, that we use it without even thinking about it.”

Thinking Want Years Has Beens Ideas Use Natural Interesting Path Wonderful Design Computer Highest Machines Exciting Invisible Dramatic Thirty Traveled Fitting Thirty Years Interfaces

Author:Mark Weiser

“Think of the computer as a spiritual space for thinking.”

Thinking Spiritual Space Computer

Author:John Maeda

“When you think about it, there's no way to input things into a computer. It's all... the holes only go out, right? Like you can plug a keyboard or a mouse in but that's a trick because the computer thinks the inputs are outputs. That's a programmer trick, basically magic. The key to the future is to make holes that go in too.”

Thinking Way Magic Like You Keys Computer Tricks Holes Mice Programmers Input Keyboards Plugs Output

Author:Mark Zuckerberg

“The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers. Think about the things that have improved our lives the most over the past century - medical advances, the transportation revolution, huge increases in consumer goods, dramatic improvements in housing, the computer. The people who created these things - the doers - are not popular heroes. Our heroes are the talkers who complain about the doers.”

Source: Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays

“Fancy computers are engaging in legalized front-running. The profits are clearly coming from the rest of us - our college endowments and our pensions. Why is this legal? What the hell is the government thinking? It's like letting rats into a restaurant.”

Thinking Government Running Hell Fronts College Computer Profit Fancy Restaurants Rats Engaging Pension Endowment

Author:Charlie Munger

“I think the cybernetic matrix is a tremendous tool for feminizing, and radicalizing, and psychedelicizing the social matrix. I see computers as entirely feminine.”

Thinking Social Computer Tools Feminine

Author:Terence McKenna

“What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think 'outside the box,' people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done.”

People Thinking World Want Done Helping Use Jobs Differences Computer Boxes Apples Changing The World Making A Difference Outside The Box Think Outside The Box

Author:Steve Jobs

“You're gonna check my computer records? Is that important? I don't think the government needs to know how I feel about teen Asian sluts in order to fight terrorism.”

Thinking Knows Needs Feels Important Government Order Fighting Know How Records Computer Terrorism Checks Asian

Author:Greg Giraldo

“When you think of all the things that have happened, since that problem with computers in 2000 and everybody was afraid and they were buying water, imagine what Millennium would do with all the things that are going on in the world right now. It has the capacity to be a movie. But, anyway, I loved doing it. It changed my life because the guy that I was playing was so much more educated and smarter than I was, so I had to live up to it.”

Thinking World Problem Guy Water Imagine Happened Changed Right Now Computer Capacity Educated Buying Smarter Changed My Life Millennium

Author:Lance Henriksen

“I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I didn't end up in computer science.”

Ifs Thinking Ends Law Dad Computer My Dad Math Lawyer Physics Computer Science

Author:Bill Gates

“I hope that if I ever disappear, people don't look for me based on the last websites I visited. Kind of an awkward press conference for my parents. Officer, do you have any leads? Well, based on Mr. Finnegan's computer entries, we think he was abducted by Sorority Sluts.”

People Ifs Thinking Wells Looks Kind Lasts Parent Computer Presses Disappear Officers Awkward Conferences Website Entry Press Conferences Sorority

Author:Christian Finnegan

“... the reason we think that computer graphics technology has succeeded in faking reality is that we, over the course of the last hundred and fifty years, have come to accept the image of photography and film as reality.”

Thinking Years Reason Reality Lasts Film Courses Accepting Technology Computer Photography Hundred Fifty Photography And Film Computer Graphics

Author:Lev Manovich

“... [I] recall thinking that the computer would never advance much further than this. Call me naïve, but I seemed to have underestimated the universal desire to sit in a hard plastic chair and stare at a screen until your eyes cross.”

Thinking Hard Eye Desire Computer Crosses Universal Screens Staring Chairs Call Me Plastic Recalls Underestimated

Book:Me Talk Pretty One Day

Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day

“Think about it. Right now, a whole generation of young (customers) in the United States has been brought up to take computers for granted. Pointing a mouse is no more mysterious to them than hitting the "on" button on the television is to their parents.”

Thinking Has Beens States Whole Young Parent United United States Generations Television Right Now Computer Customers Mysterious Granted Hitting Buttons Mice Pointing

Author:Andy Grove

“I was really looking at computers as a way to understand the mind. But at M.I.T., my mind was blown by having a whole computer to yourself as long as you liked.I felt a surge of intellectual power through access to this computer, and I started thinking about what this could mean for kids and the way they learn. That's when we developed the computer programming language for kids, Logo.”

Thinking Way Mind Mean Long Whole Kids Language Felt Computer Intellectual Access Programming Computer Programming Programming Languages Logos

Author:Seymour Papert

“Adults have been brainwashed into thinking that they can't really learn about computers without being taught, so it's more difficult for them to feel comfortable with a computer. Deep down, I think they're afraid of learning about computers.”

Thinking Feels Has Beens Difficult Taught Comfortable Computer Adults Deep Down Brainwashed

Author:Seymour Papert

“The first thing to note is that pornography and many abductions occur apart from the use of computers, and that most child abuse happens within the family. So I think the extra degree of danger that computers pose doesn't justify the frenzy.”

Thinking Firsts Children Use Happens Danger Degrees Computer Abuse Notes Extras Justify Child Abuse Pornography Frenzy Abduction

Author:Seymour Papert

“My standards are higher than they used to be, I think. They don't necessarily have to make sense, but I certainly work on them a lot harder now -- partly because I do them on the computer, and I print them out and fix them, and print them and fix them over and over again, whereas in the early days I used to just scratch down a few things on a piece of paper.”

Thinking Used Pieces Higher Paper Computer Standards Harder Used To Be Make Sense Print Scratches

Author:Dean Wareham

“Whatever job I had, I was always writing like crazy. All I ever liked about offices was being able to type up stories on the computer when no one was looking. I was never paying much attention in meetings because I was usually scribbling bits of my latest stories in the margins of the pad or thinking up names for my characters. This is a problem when you're supposed to be taking minutes of the meeting.”

Thinking Writing Character Stories Problem Able Jobs Names Bits Attention Crazy Minutes Type Office Computer Meetings Supposed To Be Margins Pads

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Beatbullying's 'The Big March 2012' is such a brilliant campaign and I am very proud to be a part of it. I have been a victim of cyber bullying myself and I know firsthand just how hurtful it can be. People think that they can hide behind computers and send nasty and hurtful comments to people, and this is wrong.”

People Thinking Knows Has Beens Bigs Behinds Proud Computer Victim Brilliant Campaigns March Bullying Comment Nasty Hurtful Cyber Cyber Bullying

Author:Katherine Jenkins

“The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything.”

Thinking Like You Computer Approach Innovation Constant Tricks Chairs Reverence Favourite New Things Old And New

Author:Colin Greenwood

“It's an incredible privilege to be able to sit in front of a computer and spend a few hours just thinking and writing.”

Thinking Writing Able Hours Fronts Computer Incredibles Privilege

Author:Nick Blaemire

“I think its a fundamental feature of images that they move from one medium to another. And this has become hyper-evident in our time with the computer, which is a kind of master-medium also and allows us to transfer data of all kinds from one platform to another, turning sounds into sights or language into image. The computer has made something that is very old evident in a new way.”

Thinking Way Kind Made Moving Language Sound Masters Computer Sight Fundamentals Mediums All Kinds Data Features Our Time Platforms New Ways Evident Transfers Hyper

Author:W. J. T. Mitchell

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