Best 934 quotes in «computer quotes» category

You see, unlike most writers today, I do not use a computer. I write the old-fashioned way: on the walls of caves.

3D is like a computer. Every six months that computer that was state of the art is now obsolete.

90 percent of the time the terms are misused or unnecessary. Not every image obtained from a computer is a screen shot.

Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense.

A computer can tell you down to the dime what you've sold, but it can never tell you how much you could have sold.

Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.

A computer chatted to itself in alarm as it noticed an airlock open and close itself for no apparent reason. This was because Reason was in fact out to lunch.

A computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows

A computer is a machine for constructing mappings from input to output.

A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.

A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.

A computer cannot manufacture new information. That's the difference between our brain and a computer.

A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.

According to the computer models, we do expect high winds in northern Germany to increase by one percent per decade. But this is such a weak phenomenon that we won't even notice it at first.

After all, computers crash, people die, relationships fall apart. The best we can do is breath and reboot.

After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.

A good messenger expects to get shot.

A good day's writing, when I turn off my computer after I know that I've written okay, or as well as I can write, that's a day well spent.

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later

A hacker is someone who enjoys playful cleverness—not necessarily with computers. The programmers in the old MIT free software community of the 60s and 70s referred to themselves as hackers. Around 1980, journalists who discovered the hacker community mistakenly took the term to mean “security breaker.”

A little bit more than 50% of what you see on screen is handcrafted and the other 50% was about emulating these textures on the computer. However, for us, when we were making it, we had to believe it was all handcrafted.

A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do

A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.

All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see what the computer does. They repeat the process again and again until they figure out how the box works.

All my vocals were recorded at home, which was great for me. You can actually have a studio in a computer program called ProTools. I did half the record with ProTools.

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control. Describing John von Neumann's aspiration for the application of computers sufficiently large to solve the problems of meteorology, despite the sensitivity of the weather to small perturbations.

Almost every profession I look at where you require human labor or you require intelligence, I see computers being able to do better than us within the next 10 years. I'm talking about a mass replacement of humans with artificial intelligence and robots.

All problems in Computer Science can be solved by another level of indirection.

A lot of the parallel processing software we're currently developing for supercomputers is tantric.

All problems in computer graphics can be solved with a matrix inversion.

A mouse can be just as dangerous as a bullet or a bomb.

And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.

Although computer chips now are thinner, they're more powerful, they're not as reliable. You'd harvest computer chips from the 1980s from all around the world because they're reliable.

Although computers allow people to talk at the speed of light, no one talks that fast.

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.

Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.

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.

An initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer.

And then there are difficulties. Computers are famous for difficulties. A difficulty is just a blockage from progress. You have to try a lot of things. When you finally find what works, it doesn't tell you a thing. It won't be the same tomorrow. Getting the computer to work is so often dealing with difficulties.

Any excuse to get away from the computer screen is welcome.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

Anyone with a little computer experience knows that anything can be copied bit-by-bit with the right equipment.

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.

Anything is possible when tackling a blank sheet with ink. It's less distracting because I'm away from my computer and all of its convenient diversions.

A random sequence is one that cannot be algorithmically compressed : the shortest description of a random sequence is simply the sequence itself.

Are you living in a computer simulation?

Arimaa's a better game than I thought. It follows a fairly sound approach to making the game difficult for computers.

Anything that someone's interested in should be very, very easy to call up onto the screen. And in fact the computer over time will see what you're interested in and make that immediately available without your having to be give any commands at all.

Anyone who knows me knows how much time I spend on computers. I'm a computer addict. Every young person deserves to have a computer in his or her home. It's also cool that CFY will also make sure that they learn how to use them.