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" People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird. "
Donald Knuth
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" This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it. "
Steve Jobs
Good
Computers
Details
" The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans. "
David Smith
Thinking
Computers
Society
" The future of television is not on television but online. A majority of us are turning to our computers and mobile devices for news and entertainment, Millennials especially. "
Jason Calacanis
Television
Computers
Future
" The capacity of computers is doubling every eight months. It's exponential development. I think it's a real threat, actually, that a computer one day will be more intelligent than us. "
David Lagercrantz
Think
Real
Day
" Managerial and professional people hadn't really used computers, hadn't sat down at keyboards, until personal computers. Personal computers have a totally different feel. "
Mitch Kapor
Feel
People
Professional
" I give Bill Gates an A for vision because, as a business person and a strategist, he's brilliant. His flaw is that his view is not informed by a humanistic or compassionate vision of how to make computers work for people. "
Mitch Kapor
People
Work
Business
" In my view, the fact that computers caught up to humans and completely dominate humans in chess and some other domains already, that says there's evidence that, yes, in principle, they can be better programmers than humans. "
Jaan Tallinn
Chess
View
Evidence
" We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable. "
Nick Park
Never
World
You
" Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something. "
Mark Rylance
Moon
Perception
Think
" Our computers have become windows through which we can gaze upon a world that is virtually without horizons or boundaries. "
Joseph B. Wirthlin
World
Become
Computers
" So technologies, whether it is a telephone or an iPhone, computers in general or automobiles, television even, all individualize us. We all sit in front of our iPhones and communicating but are we really communicating? "
Henry Mintzberg
Telephone
Computers
iPhone
" For computer communications, computers talk in little bursts. They're not continuous like speech. "
Bob Kahn
Speech
Talk
Little
" And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it's the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers. "
Lennart Nilsson
Our
Real
Work
" In computers, we do all kinds of manual manipulations. We grab and drag icons. We click on and open windows. We pull down a screen. We stretch a screen. We scroll up and down. "
Louis B. Rosenberg
Computers
Up And Down
Down
" Computers tend to separate us from each other - Mum's on the laptop, Dad's on the iPad, teenagers are on Facebook, toddlers are on the DS, and so on. "
Tom Hodgkinson
iPad
Teenagers
Us
" Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us. "
James Dyson
Computers
Nature
Today
" The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat. "
Dave Barry
Society
Internet
Future
" Computers ought to help people find their own best path through lots of textual information. "
Mitch Kapor
Own
Best
Computers
" I actually use a computer a lot. I have three computers that I use on a regular basis - one is on my desk top in my Washington office, another is at home, and I have my laptop that I use when I'm travelling. "
Rick Boucher
Three
Computers
Washington
" I started getting into Internet technologies and computers. I wasn't especially interested in being a musician, but I wound up finding my way back to being interested in music through computers. "
Eric Avery
Finding
Internet
Music
" 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. "
Nathan Myhrvold
Powerful
Time
Old
" One thing that humans still do better than computers is recognize images. "
Peter Diamandis
Better
One Thing
Still
" Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in. "
Jack Kilby
Television
Computers
Beginning
" Every day, I absorb countless data bits through emails, phone calls, and articles; process the data; and transmit back new bits through more emails, phone calls, and articles. I don't really know where I fit into the great scheme of things and how my bits of data connect with the bits produced by billions of other humans and computers. "
Yuval Noah Harari
Process
Day
Great
" Music is composed on computers and other electronic equipment; producers don't want to spend money on orchestra. "
Sivamani
Computers
Music
Orchestra
" The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language. "
Jim Clark
Computers
Internet
Language
" 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. "
Jojo Moyes
Computers
Husband
Technology
" Right at the start, when I was about 13 or 14, I only had an Amiga 500 Plus running a bit of tracker software called OctaMED. My brother was big into his computers, and when he moved up to a proper PC, I took charge of the Amiga. "
Calvin Harris
Right
Big
Brother
" So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature. "
Stephen Wolfram
Nature
Now
Rules
" I'm always working. I don't really set limits. I tend to go in bursts. And in between, I'm doing my taxes, answering the phone, and all those kinds of things. I waste a lot of time. Computers take a lot of time. I love computers. "
Richard Dooling
Time
Phone
Love