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• There’s a good part of Computer Science that’s like magic. Unfortunately there’s a bad part of Computer Science that’s like religion.

  Hal Abelson

  Topics in Computer

• Computers are good, but only while they are working. Otherwise, they are no more use than a paperweight.

  Farahad Zama

  Topics in Computer

• It’s miraculous how much easier the computer has made my sort of work.

  Max Hastings

  Topics in Computer

  Tags in Easier, Miraculous

• Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. That is a contraction of rocket technology and computer technology and atomic clock technology.

  Serge Haroche

  Topics in Computer

  Tags in Technological, Clock

• Writing on a computer feels like a recipe for writer’s block. I can type so fast that I run out of thoughts, and then I sit there and look at the words on the screen, and move them around, and never get anywhere. Whereas in a notebook I just keep plodding along, slowly, accumulating sentences, sometimes even surprising myself.

  Chad Harbach

  Topics in Computer

  Tags in Recipe, Plodding
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  I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

  Stephen Hawking

  Topics in Computer, Work

  Tags in Afraid, Afterlife

• I had never touched a computer in my life before I came to Pixar.

  Andrew Stanton

  Topics in Computer

  Tags in Touched, Came

• Congress hasn’t declared war on the countries – the majority of them are our allies – but without asking for public permission, NSA is running network operations against them that affect millions of innocent people. And for what? So we can have secret access to a computer in a country we’re not even fighting?

  Edward Snowden

  Topics in Computer

  Tags in Permission, Congress

• A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Topics in Computer

  Tags in Books

• Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.

  Jean Rostand

  Topics in Computer, Truth

• And then you start getting into the technical side of it and the aesthetic side and with those areas you can come up with new ways to visualise things, new ways to render and use the computer to make things look different and new and stuff like that.

  Dennis Muren

  Topics in Computer

  Tags in Technical

• I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said, ‘Looks like you’re writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful language, you’ll get more money.’

  Demetri Martin

  Topics in Computer

  Tags in Language

• Whenever I’m on my computer, I don’t type ‘lol’. I type ‘lqtm’ – laugh quietly to myself. It’s more honest.

  Demetri Martin

  Topics in Computer

  Tags in Self

• The two great things about computer CG stuff are I can now do gags I would never have dreamed of in the old day.

  George A. Romero

  Topics in Computer

  Tags in Great, Old

• A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don’t have the patience to learn.

  David Wilkerson

  Topics in Age, Computer

  Tags in Internet

• I’ve never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.

  David Tudor

  Topics in Computer

  Tags in Self, Produced

• A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse is a hotrod; that the box is a cave; that the rawhide is a torch… or a baton… or something.

  Mo Rocca

  Topics in Computer

  Tags in Imagine, Dinosaurs

• Computer: a million morons working at the speed of light.

  David Ferrier

  Topics in Computer, Work

• Another little known fact about Amazing Tennis – the computer opponents are modeled after real people. In an odd turn of events, I joined a division 3 college tennis team at age 38.

  David Crane

  Topics in Computer

• I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually ‘Nothing; you’re screwed’.

  Bruce Schneier

  Topics in Computer

  Tags in Internet