Best 934 quotes in «computer quotes» category

The most important application of quantum computing in the future is likely to be a computer simulation of quantum systems, because that's an application where we know for sure that quantum systems in general cannot be efficiently simulated on a classical computer.

The music business has made a 360. It's a whole 'nother game. It's not nearly what it was. And I fear for it, because, you know, with the advent of the computer and online and downloading and all these things, they have destroyed - that stuff has destroyed the record business, not the music business, but the record business. The music business is well, and it's alive and thriving. Now, I hope something happens to turn it back around to the point whereas it's - you're earning a living from writing your songs, from your work, you know, because it's not like that anymore.

The movie that we could've finished in 2001 would've sucked. The movie that we could've finished in 2002 would've just been a disaster, even into 2003, it would've been very cobbled together, amateuristic stuff. But as we went along, we really did stumble upon some accidental themes, and with the things you could do with computers, and all that sort of stuff just sort of really accelerated into where the stuff that we could do right here at my house became - you could almost do anything.

The network is the computer.

The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.

The number of neurons in the brain is very much larger than the number of components in a computer.

The one thing computers have done is let us make bigger mistakes. We have to be careful not to depend on our machines.

The only people who have anything to fear from free software are those whose products are worth even less.

The only reason in the world that I bought a computer was to look up UFO sites.

The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards.

Theoretical Computer Science is just as useless as everything we mathematicians do.

Theory provides the maps that turn an uncoordinated set of experiments or computer simulations into a cumulative exploration.

The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry with them from the conventions of the computer field.

The power of the computer is starting to spread.

The problem of viruses is temporary and will be solved in two years.

The potential of any technology is always dissipated by its users involvement in its predecessors...Computer are still serving mainly to sustain precomputer effects.

The primary implication is that we're going to combine our intelligence with computers. We're going to make ourselves smarter. By the 2030s, they will literally go inside our bodies and inside our brains.

The problem with computers is that there is not enough Africa in them.

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.

The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music.

The purpose of computers is human freedom.

The question at hand is the danger posed to truth by computer-manipulated photographic imagery. How do we approach this question in a period in which the veracity of even the straight, unmanipulated photograph has been under attack for a couple of decades.

There are no standards for computer programmers and no group to certify them.

The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.

There are artists that are using computers in all genres - Kendrick Lamar's music is electronic-made, and Taylor Swift is the same thing. There's a lot of pop music, underground music, and music for films made with computers. In that sense, it's not going to go away.

There are only two industries that refer to their customers as 'users'.

There are only two things wrong with C++: The initial concept and the implementation.

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.

There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(...); the other was the fact that the century would end.

There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.

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.

There is a construct in computer programming called 'the infinite loop' which enables a computer to do what no other physical machine can do - to operate in perpetuity without tiring. In the same way it doesn't know exhaustion, it doesn't know when it's wrong and it can keep doing the wrong thing over and over without tiring.

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over.

There is only one real computer - the universe - whose hardware is made up of non-spatial states of consciousness and software is made up of superhuman as well as non-superhuman thoughts.

There is something sexy about a computer nerd.

There ought to be something about computers and artificial intelligence [in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations]. Surely somebody somewhere said something memorable.

... there's one of the great lies of all times, that computers save time. They don't. They're time suckers. So, I'm trying not to get involved in the Photoshop.

There's more technology in your car than there is in your computer. It's got thousands of parts in it. It's extremely sophisticated, all that robotics.

The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank.

These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries.

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.

The trouble with the Internet is that it's replacing masturbation as a leisure activity.

The universe is a gigantic non-spatial computer.

There was a day where I was sitting at my desk, working 90-hour work weeks, in a suit, looking at a computer, with all these pitch books on my desk, and I just thought, "This can't be my life...

There was a magical breakthrough when the computer became cheap and we could see that everyone could afford a computer.

The vast majority of people do not have, nor will they ever have a personal computer. They haven't been exposed to Windows or Office, or anything like that, and in their lives it's unlikely that they will.

The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of users; every time they get more powerful, old customers upgrade.

The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.