Famous Quotes & Sayings

Formula creation is magnitudes harder for computer algorithms than actually executing within a formula. But once the genre is created and the formula is known, then the computer can do the repetitive task of executing within the genre.

I love turning on the computer in the morning and reading the things that I did the day before - that I didn't do!

Phil Schiller

It's a world where you're going to have a phone, a tablet, a computer - you don't have to choose. And so what's more important is how you seamlessly move between them all... It's not like this is a laptop person and that's a tablet person. It doesn't have to be that way.

Phil Schiller

Every company that made computers when we started the Mac, they're all gone.

Bill Brandt

Without exception, they were DVDs and computer files.

We had some problems with folks not being in the computer yet. Once we got those sorted out, we seemed to go OK.

We are excited to let the system automatically index and verify our data and do its job. After all, isn't that why we have computer systems?

The reason the renewal is of significance is the technology. We're going from a tape-based media to digital one. The tape will become obsolete. Someone can drag an icon on the computer in a drag and drop procedure, as opposed to what used to be go down the hall and get the tape.

Andrew Buchan

When someone dies instantly, then I think the well of grief and disbelief all mixed in with it is unfathomable. And when murder is involved, that just takes it into a whole new place. There is an extra dimension you just can't compute or deal with.

Fifteen years ago it used to be hard products, now there's a lot more manufacturer reps, particularly in computer repair, service, Web site designers.

The real problem is Netscape Communicator taking a powerful script and putting it out on your computer in a locale where any Web site can find it out and run it.

Howard Rheingold

We think of them as mobile phones, but the personal computer, mobile phone and the Internet are merging into some new medium like the personal computer in the 1980s or the Internet in the 1990s.

Future generations will know there's nothing mystical about wetware because by 2100, Moore's law will have given us tiny quantum computers powerful enough to upload a human soul.

Barton Gellman

Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee and other vendors to pre-install 'trial' versions.

Daley Thompson

I don't even have my own computer.

Aimee Bender

I think teaching keeps me honest because if I'm up in front of a class talking about what I think is important about fiction while knowing I myself have just failed to do that hours earlier at my computer - it's a good and humbling reminder.

We see ourselves as being SMB-enablers because we talk to our customers at the outset in order to find out what data is important to them. The main dashboard displays the main metrics that the person needs to see every day. Therefore, the dashboard contents will differ depending on whether the person is a CEO, CFO, sales manager, or sales rep, for example.

Bruce Feirstein

Yes, I play computer games. I think you've got to embrace the latest technology. For someone to dismiss games as not important would be the same as saying the Internet is not important.

Irwin Winkler

I just think there's a general interest in the world of computers.

With Precision Computer Systems, we know we'll be able to provide our customers with service that is second to none.

The problem is that, just like real viruses, we can't stamp out computer strains. Viruses never go away, and what we don't need is 1 million virus signatures in virus scanners.

The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

Bryan Burrough

Just being able to get paid to do something you love is a wonderful thing. That said, a writer's daily routine, unless you're Dominick Dunne, isn't exactly glamorous. Much of it amounts to drudgery, staring at a computer screen all day in a room by yourself, juggling nouns and verbs to make a demanding editor happy.

Barton Gellman

You don't need to be a spook to care about encryption. If you travel with your computer or keep it in a place where other people can put their hands on it, you're vulnerable.

Stephen Stills

I've learned you can't write on a computer on a bus. It jiggles too much, especially an Apple. The keyboard jiggles around too much, and there are too many typos.

I got up with my wife, I sat down at the computer when she went to work, and I didn't stop until she got home.

George R. R. Martin

I have files, I have computer files and, you know, files on paper. But most of it is really in my head. So God help me if anything ever happens to my head!

Eugene Wigner

It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too.

Elizabeth George

When I start a book, I write a minimum of five pages every day, except weekends. If I'm going on a ski trip, I take my computer with me, get up at six, do my five pages, and then go skiing.

It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.

Edsger Dijkstra

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

Arthur Miller

The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality.