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I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.
I don't let the computer into my bedroom. It would get in the way of life, sleep. And I really can't let that happen.
Why we do what we do: that moment when you get to see the future on your computer screen before the rest of the world.
If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.
The computer is a mind machine. It doesn't have its own psychology, but in a way it presents itself as though it does.
I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics.
Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause
I know of no person or group that is taking nearly adequate advantage of the graphical potentialities of the computer.
It's hard to replace the gray matter that is inherent in every human being. No computer can do it quite that well yet.
I used to sit home with my computer and write. After the Newbery, I probably spend more than half my time on the road.
The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer.
I've always been thinking in three dimensions, ever since I started working with computer animation in the early '80s.
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
I've often gotten the feeling that the only people who have learned from computer assisted instruction are the authors.
I carry an umbrella when I am outdoors and always wear sunscreen, even when I am sitting in front of a computer screen!
90 percent of the time the terms are misused or unnecessary. Not every image obtained from a computer is a screen shot.
I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980.
On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a computer programmer. But in my heart, I am a gamer.
My ideal role would be a baddie in a James Bond film. I think the wheelchair and the computer voice would fit the part.
There was a magical breakthrough when the computer became cheap and we could see that everyone could afford a computer.
My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.
The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.
It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs.
People in the industry foresee a time in which, for many people, the only thing they'll need on a computer is a browser.
Unfortunately, computers are?stupid.Unlike human beings, computers possess the truly profound stupidity of the inanimate.
I assemble my ideas in pieces on a computer file, then gradually find a place for them on a piece of scaffolding I erect.
There's a lot of information on Iran in the files and computer discs captured at the Pakistan hideout of Osama bin Laden.
The climate stubbornly refuses to co-operate with computer models and the writers of alarmist popular articles and books.
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
I studied computer science and graphic design, yeah, so music was self-taught and a backburner thing, an obsessive hobby.
I don't use e-mail; I phone and fax. I think people who are hunched over their computer screens all day should get a life.
When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.
A state-of-the-art calculation requires 100 hours of CPU time on the state-of-the-art computer, independent of the decade.
I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.
If I get a computer and I tune it to the Internet, it will pick up the Internet from the invisible realms that I can't see.
If you don't handle [exceptions], we shut your application down. That dramatically increases the reliability of the system.
Nothing could be more absurd than an experiment in which computers are placed in a classroom where nothing else is changed.
A lot of people have helped me along the way. But you know the biggest thing for me was when computer animation came along.
I think music will be created algorhythmically, all the things that we do will be boiled down to a little computer program.
The radical Left loves attacking people as anti-science when anyone dares question their computer models on global warming.
I can write faster on a typewriter than you can on a computer. I do 120 words a minute, and you can't do that on a computer.
The Xbox is how the computer will be built in the next 20 years. More semiconductor capacity will go to the user experience.
What joy and adventure the youngsters of today are missing as they sit indoors mucking about with computer games and videos!
I don't understand this whole thing about computers and the superhighway. Who wants to be in touch with all of those people?
I wanted to get into art. I did some neon stuff. I worked in, not computer-generated, but computer manipulation of pictures.
I don't even have cable anymore, or a television. I just watch on computers. It's clearly the future of where we're heading.
I can barely even run a computer. God knows what I'd get on online dating. I'd get something that was subhuman or something.
In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.
All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer.