Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shelly Flood

We want people to know they can drop off their old computers with us for free, rather than just throw them away. We take anything and everything.

Warren Spector

The fact is most computer roleplaying games that offer a zillion highly specialized skills end up with nine-tenths of a zillion skills that every player quickly realizes aren't worth the experience points to buy.

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The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back.

Ken Dunham

The reality is that there could have been hundreds of thousands of computers with overwritten files today. Instead, we only have a handful of reports, and that is a hands-down victory for the collaborative effort of the security community.

Thomas Bangalter

Computers were never designed in the first place to become musical instruments. Within a computer, everything is sterile - there's no sound, there's no air. It's totally code. Like with computer-generated effects in movies, you can create wonders. But it's really hard to create emotion.

Aaron Swartz

Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives.

Ricky Gervais

Celebrities, make it harder for hackers to get nude pics of you from your computer by not putting nude pics of yourself on the computer.

Tawni O'Dell

My mind is constantly creating and searching, but I can't make myself put the right words on paper until I'm ready. Once I'm ready, I'm a focused, disciplined writer who will put in twelve hours a day at the computer, but I also spend a lot of time away from the computer getting to that point.

Tim Berners-Lee

We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal.

Thomas R. Cech

I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions.

David Suzuki

Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary.

Ben Okri

I was going to be a scientist.

Bill Nye

I feel that I've often pointed out that there are countless aspects of life and nature that scientists and scientific thinkers cannot explain. Why the universe is accelerating in its expansion and what came before the Big Bang serve as compelling examples. The process of science provides a way to seek answers to those questions.

Dennis Flanagan

Science is what scientists do.

Arthur Koestler

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

Alan Alda

I think it's important for scientists to speak in their own voices and not just be mediated by journalists or others speaking for them.

Fabiola Gianotti

We will have to be very vigilant that young female scientists have the same opportunities as their male colleagues.

Kurt Vonnegut

I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better.

Kenneth Baker

Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes. That is not how it happened.

David Burnett

I see myself as a recorder of history, sort of a visual historian.

Rick Perlstein

I look to historians for their power to illuminate not just the invisible lineaments of the present, but also that which is not present. What are the roads that were not taken that most shape our own time?

Hassan Rouhani

I've said before that I am not a historian and that when it comes to speaking of the dimensions of the Holocaust, it is the historians that should reflect on it.

Niall Ferguson

The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It's very restful - because you read. There's some sociopathic problem that makes me prefer it to human interaction.

Paul Johnson

What strikes the historian surveying anti-Semitism worldwide over more than two millennia is its fundamental irrationality. It seems to make no sense, any more than malaria or meningitis makes sense.

Lee Benson

History never repeats itself, historians do.

Julian Barnes

History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.

Michael Korda

The novelist wants to know how things will turn out; the historian already knows how things turned out, but wants to know why they turned out the way they did.