Computers
And then computers got to a point where you could just record directly into them. So when that happened, funny enough, I thought, Right, I’m going to learn how to do this because then I can understand that part
Author: Thom YorkeTopics: Computers, Famous, Feelings, Happened, Learn, Meaningful, Record, Understand
The only thing God didn’t do to Job was give him a computer.
Author: I.F.StoneTopics: Computers, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Job, Jobs, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Thing, Things
I’m not afraid of computers taking over the world. They’re just sitting there. I can hit them with a two by four
Author: Thom YorkeTopics: Computers, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Sitting, World
OK Computer? More like No Thank You Computers. They killed my father, and I hate them.
Author: Thom YorkeTopics: Computers, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Hate, Killed, Life, Meaningful
I read in all forms: paper, computer, phone, audio.
Author: H. W. Brands
Topics: Computers, Famous, Newspapers, Phone, Reading
Knowledge acquired outdoors always seems to have a greater, hardier wisdom than the stuff you find at a desk on a computer
Author: A. A. GillTopics: Computers, Desires, Greater, Knowing, Knowing yourself, Knowledge, Leads, Wisdom, Wise
When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
Author: Gabrielle Zevin
Topics: Computers, Famous, Gift, Play, Present, Years
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Author: Enzo FerrariTopics: Computers, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Useless
Don’t explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.
Author: Robert A. HeinleinTopics: Computers, Explain, Sex
My dream is that every person in the world will have their own Apple computer. To do that, we’ve got to be a great marketing company.
Author: Steven Paul JobsTopics: Computers, Famous, Meaningful
I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one’s memories.compu
Author: Stephen HawkingTopics: Computers, Famous, Meaningful, Neutral
We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains contribute to human intelligence rather than opposing it.
Author: Stephen HawkingTopics: Computers, Famous, Intelligence, Meaningful
The Internet’s completely over. The Internet’s like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can’t be good for you.
Author: PrinceTopics: Completely, Computers, Famous, MTV, Numbers, Time
I find more and more executives less and less well informed about the outside world, if only because they believe that the data on the computer printouts are ipso facto information.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Computers, Famous, Informed decisions, Meaningful, More
The computer actually may have aggravated management’s degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Computers, Famous, Meaningful
The strength of the computer lies in its being a logic machine. It does precisely what it is programed to do. This makes it fast and precise. It also makes it a total moron; for logic is essentially stupid.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Computers, Essentially, Famous, Meaningful, Precisely, Strength
The computer, being a mechanical moron, can handle only quantifiable data.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Computers, Famous, Handle, Meaningful
You must accept that if the computer is a tool, it is the job of tool user to know what to use it for.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Computers, Famous, Meaningful, Tools
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.
Author: Paul WalkerTopics: Computers, Famous, Feel, Meaningful, Mightier, Pretty, Remember, Time, Watching
I don’t like people who sit on computers all day long and write about people they don’t know anything about.
Author: Paris HiltonTopics: Computers, Famous, Meaningful, People
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Author: Pablo PicassoTopics: Computers, Famous, Useless
Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically. A good example is digital technology where today’s cell phones are far more powerful than the computers on the Apollo Command Module and Lunar Module that we used to navigate to the moon and operate all the spacecraft control systems.
Author: Neil ArmstrongTopics: Changed, Command, Computers, Famous, Life, Lunar Module, Meaningful, Navigate, Powerful, Space, Spacecraft, Technology
Some Socialists seem to believe that people should be numbers in a State computer. We believe they should be individuals. We are all unequal. No one, thank heavens, is like anyone else, however much the Socialists may pretend otherwise. We believe that everyone has the right to be unequal but to us every human being is equally important.
Author: Margaret ThatcherTopics: Computers, Famous, Human, Human Being, Important, Individuals, Meaningful, People, Pretend, Socialists, Unequal
The mind is a neural computer.
Author: Margaret MeadTopics: Computers, Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful, Mind, Neural
I’m not really gadget oriented. I’m not into technology or computers. I’m not good at interfacing with that sort of gear.”
Author: Nicolas CageTopics: Computers, Famous, Meaningful, Technology
The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system.
Author: Bill GatesTopics: Computers, Experiences, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Program, Science
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.
Author: Bill GatesTopics: Computers, Experiences, Famous, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Program, Results, Work
DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.
Author: Bill GatesTopics: Computers, Experiences, Famous, Meaningful
You know, we were worried that computers would do everything we did. Fortunately, we were wrong.
Author: Bill GatesTopics: Computers, Experiences, Famous, Meaningful, Positive, Technological, Technologically, Technology
If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.
Author: Bill GatesTopics: Computers, Drive, Driver, Driving, Experiences, Famous, Meaningful