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Computers

But Im so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but its just so slow, Im so terribly slow using it. – Jack Vance

Whats 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. – Seth Lloyd

Over the eons Ive been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to simplify and bring order to my life. Very early on this led me to the beautiful-and-doomed Lotus Agenda for my DOS computers, and Actioneer for the early Palm. – James Fallows

Comic books arent nerdy. Youd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy. – Adam Brody

Weve 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

My e-mail address is actually my wifes e-mail address. I actually hate computers. – Joe Sakic

Computers are scary. Theyre nightmares to fix, lose our stuff, and, on occasion, they crash, producing the blue screen of death. Steve Jobs knew this. He knew that computers were bulky and hernia-inducing and Darth Vader black. He understood the value of declarative design. – Wesley Morris

I like computers. I like the Internet. Its a tool that can be used. But dont be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system. – Jerry Brown

And its here and its ready and we can really revolutionize the way we educate our children with tablet computers, and Im committed to doing whatever I can to speaking to whomever I can to send this signal – to pound this message home. Now is the time. – LeVar Burton

I dont look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans. – Magnus Carlsen

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

I have three brothers and theyre all into computers. Theyre all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldnt make 50 cents. I just couldnt do it. – Josh Holloway

I realized that I loved using computers to create something, but being an architect just wasnt going to keep me interested. The idea of a life spent obsessing over bathroom details for an Upper East Side penthouse was pretty depressing. – Joseph Kosinski

Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. Its not really photography. – Mary Ellen Mark

People dont understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them. – Bruce Schneier

Well, my wife always says to me, and I think its true, its 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

Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, dont have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison. – Claude Vorilhon

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. – Charles C. Mann

Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that were marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldnt have to drive to the computer center. We didnt have $1,000 computers. – Sam Wyly

Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. Its exactly the same. – Bill Laswell