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" Computers are very powerful tools, but in the simulated world of the computer, everything has to be calculated. "

Margaret Wertheim

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" People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory. "

" No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'. "

" Everyone talks about how much data's in the world. Except, actually, 80% of it is pretty blind to computers. I mean, it can store it. But if it's a movie, a poem, a song, it doesn't know what it's actually saying or doing. "

" My mom was a biological illustrator for a time before computers replaced that job. "

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" If you take a regular animated film, that's being done by animators on computers, so the filmmaking is a fairly technical process. "

" There's so much free material on the Internet you can learn from, and some people are pure self-starters: they pick up computers and teach themselves everything. Certainly there are millions of people like that. But at the same time, I think it's a pretty small percentage of the population. "

" We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road. "

Nicholas Negroponte

" If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan. "

" I look like a geeky hacker, but I don't know anything about computers. "

" China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies. "

" What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself. "

" Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us. "

" I got into computers back in the early '80s, so it was a natural progression of learning about e-mail in the mid-'80s and getting into the Internet when it opened up in the early '90s. "

" I think there is an awful lot of technology for technology's sake. I have yet to be convinced by my husband that persuading our mobiles to talk to our computers is going to be quicker and more straightforward than scribbling a note in our kitchen diary. "

" The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do. "

" The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success. "

" You can't have thousands of cars without good computers on the electric grid. "

" Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything. "

" Once you acknowledge that human brains are basically made of atoms and acknowledge that atoms are governed by simple laws of physics, then there is no reasoning principle why computers couldn't do anything that people are doing, and we don't really see any evidence that this is not the case. "

" Smartphones can relay patients' data to hospital computers in a continuous stream. Doctors can alter treatment regimens remotely, instead of making patients come in for a visit. "

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" There's an evolution from, today we tell computers to do stuff for us, to where computers can actually do stuff for us. For example, if I go and pick up my kids, it would be good for my car to be aware that my kids have entered the car and change the music to something that's appropriate for them. "

" In the Pythagorean system, thinking about numbers, or doing mathematics, was an inherently masculine task. Mathematics was associated with the gods, and with transcendence from the material world; women, by their nature, were supposedly rooted in this latter, baser realm. "

Margaret Wertheim

" I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago. "

" I was born in Tamil Nadu. I built HCL in UP. The first computers of the world were built in UP, and the UP government has supported us all through. "

" I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong. "

" I'm going to get myself one of those, um, movable computers - what do you call them... ? Laptops! I am bad. I still call my radio a wireless. "

Katherine Parkinson

" My life's goal is to get rid of computers and invent everything that removes its necessity. "

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