Quotes with computer

  • There are two great fictional TV series about technology and the computer industry that each have now had three seasons. The one everyone knows about is 'Silicon Valley.' The lesser-known one is 'Halt and Catch Fire.'
  • A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

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  • Joe Martin The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little.
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  • Bill Bryson To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be working on a book and be in an airport lounge, in a hotel room, and continue working; I fire up my laptop, and I'm in exactly the same place I was when I left home - that, to me, is a miracle.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Alan Turing A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
    Alan Turing
    English mathematician and computer scientist (1912 - 1954)
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  • Bertrand Piccard A movie I must have seen 10 times is 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.' It's an old movie, but still such a beautiful message. If I had only one film I could take on my computer on a desert island, I would take 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.'
    Bertrand Piccard
    Swiss psychiatrist (1958 - )
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  • Bill Clinton Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills.
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Bill Bryson And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Arthur Levitt Another misconception is that an order is canceled when you hit 'cancel' on your computer. But, the fact is it's canceled only when the market gets the cancellation.
    Arthur Levitt
    American SEC chairman (1931 - )
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie Another time factor is output: proofing and printing. That is, getting your work out of the computer and onto paper and having it satisfy you. It can be time consuming and expensive.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Bill Maris As computer intelligence gets better, what will be possible when we interface our brains with computers? It might sound scary, but early evidence suggests otherwise: interfacing brains with machines can be helpful in treating traumatic brain injury, repairing spinal cord damage, and countless other applications.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Ben Nicholson At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.
    Ben Nicholson
    English painter (1894 - 1982)
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  • Bill Griffith But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before.
    Bill Griffith
    American cartoonist (1944 - )
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  • Cai Guo-Qiang Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.
    Cai Guo-Qiang
    Chinese artist (1957 - )
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  • Annie Leibovitz Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • W. Dijkstra Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
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  • Bruce Chatwin Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the things of that particular country: leaves, fruit, insects and so forth. We give our children guns and computer games, Wendy said. They gave their children the land.
    The Songlines p. 270
    Bruce Chatwin
    English travel writer, novelist and journalist (1940 - 1989)
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  • Brad Feld Ever since I learned about the concept of garbage collection in 6.001 at MIT in 1984 while using Scheme on HP Chipmunks, I've always thought of dreaming as the same as garbage collection for a computer.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Betty Parsons Every time I learn a new thing to do on my computer, I have to write it down so that I can remember it.
    Betty Parsons
    American artist, art dealer, and collector (1900 - 1982)
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  • Bob Kahn For computer communications, computers talk in little bursts. They're not continuous like speech.
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  • Boris Spassky For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly with the modern time control.
    Boris Spassky
    Russian chess grandmaster (1937 - )
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