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" Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. "
Edsger Dijkstra
Science
Computer Science
Computers
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" What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process. "
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" I think computers are the ultimate writing tool. I'm a very slow writer, so I appreciate it every day. "
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" Calculating does not equal mathematics. It's a subsection of it. In years gone by it was the limiting factor, but computers now allow you to make the whole of mathematics more intellectual. "
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" Closed environments dominated the computing world of the 1970s and early '80s. An operating system written for a Hewlett-Packard computer ran only on H.P. computers; I.B.M. controlled its software from chips up to the user interfaces. "
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" For many years, even as users became more sophisticated, personal computers took too much effort to use without problem-solving, keeping alive the yearning for greater simplicity. Microsoft's dominant Windows platform, in particular, was a home for all manner of bugs and problems that required IT people to straighten out. "
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" In 2004, the iPod was a novelty, and tablet computers were a dream. Now we take for granted that we can see whatever we want whenever and wherever we want to see it, be it 'Grand Illusion' or 'Duck Dynasty.' "
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" When I was a kid, I played 'Super Mario Bros' and 'Megaman 2' and '3' for hours and hours, trying to convince my mother they were good for me because they helped my hand-eye coordination. They influenced a whole generation of people to make computers what they are now, through problem-solving and so on. "
Lee Pace
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" I guarantee you, yoga will compete with computers, music, sports, automobiles, the drug industry. Yoga will take over the world! "
Bikram Choudhury
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" People are good at figuring out what's attractive, and computers are good at quickly searching and finding. You put them together, and bang! "
Luis von Ahn
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" My first introduction to computers and computer programming came during my freshman year of college. I majored in electrical engineering with a minor in computer science, so I learned during my required courses at Vanderbilt University. "
Kimberly Bryant
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" There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers. "
Walt Mossberg
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Personal
" If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently. "
Niklas Zennstrom
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You
Resources
" I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager. "
Eugene Jarvis
How
Interested
Computers
" Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist. "
John Lasseter
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" Introduced in the 1960s, multitasking is an engineering strategy for making computers more efficient. Human beings are the slowest elements in a system. "
Ellen Ullman
Human
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Strategy
" Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons. "
Edsger Dijkstra
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Chosen
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" The basic idea of Games With a Purpose is that we are taking a problem that computers cannot yet solve, and we are getting people to solve it for us while they are playing a game. "
Luis von Ahn
People
Purpose
Us
" To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer. "
Paul R. Ehrlich
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Need
" When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it's a success. It's not popularity for our code but it's success for our goal. "
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" One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible. "
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" I look like a geeky hacker, but I don't know anything about computers. "
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" It's interesting to see what people are saying about me. I like keep up with the latest rumors! A while back there was a rumor that I was going to do a film with Demi Moore about the takeover of Commodore computers! "
Warwick Davis
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" I start every book with something that outrages me. I'm outraged by the FBI, the CIA, and computers that seem to have catalogued our lives. Power too often is accompanied by irresponsibility. "
Robert Ludlum
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" When humans team up with computers to play chess, the humans who do best are not necessarily the strongest players. They're the ones who are modest and who know when to listen to the computer. Often, what the human adds is knowledge of when the computer needs to look more deeply. "
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" At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff. "
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" Theaters are always going to be around, and doing fine. With computers and technology, we're becoming more and more secluded from each other. And the movie theater is one of the last places where we can still gather and experience something together. I don't think the desire for that magic will ever go away. "
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" A wide variety of devices beyond personal computers are arriving, many of which will be used to browse the Web... The Flash engineering team has taken this on with a major overhaul of the mainstream Flash Player for a variety of devices. "
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" I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time. "
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" I am not a great fan of computers. I do watch videos and analyse which batsman is playing how. Batsmen can play different shots on different days. A batsman may not play cover drives well, but if he connects with two such shots, he starts playing the drive well on that day. "
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