Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Knuth

The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.

One simply turns to the ideological vending machine, and out comes the prepared formulae.

Anna Friel

There were reports of me using fat-sucking machines and all sorts of silliness. All I did was walk a lot and breast-feed. I've never been on a strict diet. I just don't overeat, and I don't eat if I'm not hungry.

Ambrose Bierce

GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.

Adam Osborne

With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.

Christopher Walken

I have a friend of mine who does me on his answering machine, and when I call him, I answer. It's pretty strange.

Andy Warhol

I want to be a machine.

John Sculley

Ross Perot came and visited Apple several times and visited the Macintosh factory. Ross was a systems thinker.

Lotus's efforts around the Mac were pathetically unsuccessful, which is sad.

Rachel Corrie

Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.

Bernie Mac

That's the whole key to anything: Don't be afraid to fail. And Bernie Mac is not afraid to fail.

Mike Wallace

Whether it's $200 or $300 is not going to matter. Nintendo and Microsoft are going to sell every machine they can put on the shelves.

Yotam Ottolenghi

You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.

We are making every machine a unique OS.

Phil Schiller

There were so many things of value in the original Mac that it is still recognizable.

Mitt Romney

I have a PC. My sons have a Mac and swear by it, but I have a couple PC's.

Steve Jobs

We know Mac OS X is not perfect,

Benoit Mandelbrot

Some mathematicians didn't even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of looking at pictures by the hundreds; the machines became a little bit better.

Mac said he thought he got a piece of it so it wasn't a surprise. We got the win and that's all that matters.

Mac really didn't have major-league managerial experience, and we probably wouldn't want to go that route again,

Machinery orders are important and the better-than-expected numbers will be yen-supportive.

Machine owners know they're illegal. They've been warned, and they just won't take them out.

Bobby Fischer

It's little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.

Ross MacDonald

As I stood there absorbing Hammett's novel, the slot machines at the back of the shop were clanking and whirring, and in the billiard room upstairs the perpetual poker game was being played.

This year, I have been promised a better machine within the team.

There is always a student supervisor, not a personal trainer, on duty. They know how to work the machines properly.

That machine saved my life. I mean, really.

Marcel Pagnol

One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.

Scott Erickson

Any new machines that are on the market that run Windows are great.

This is a machine and anything can go wrong with it.

They're talking about turning the studios into a propaganda machine for the government, and that's wrong.

A lot more than most Mac OS X machines will ever have open.

Jeb Bush

This is not the time to be defiant or to kind of let people know that you're a macho man. There are other ways to do that in life,