Quotes About Author

I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is.

I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project.

I'm not a big gadget guy. When I write, I'll do the whole thing by hand, and then I'll put it into the computer.

If you don't handle [exceptions], we shut your application down. That dramatically increases the reliability of the system.

Im pretty adept with computers and Photoshop for my blog, and I found my style with a conversational voice and an image-ready column.

Certainly, because the computer and computer language was still not as common as it is today. That's one of the reasons I believe Tron wasn't as popular back then as it is today.

I hate it, it is tedious... when I write for my act, it is very improvisational, I write bullet points, I cannot sit in front of a computer; that is not my style.

Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't get from many other things.

There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.

I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.

All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer.

The writing is done on the computer, and the drawing is done by hand. I write, write, write, then I hit the illustration.

I'm a tomboy beanpole? I can't use a computer, so maybe I'm a bit out of the loop. I don't know whether to be flattered or not flattered. The beanpole bit, is that good? Can you be a sexy beanpole?

He stopped what he was doing and pulled out his magic phone. Okay, the phone wasn't magic, but it does things my computer struggles with.

I think the cybernetic matrix is a tremendous tool for feminizing, and radicalizing, and psychedelicizing the social matrix. I see computers as entirely feminine.

I wasn't as critical during games as I was at practice. Players needed confidence during games more than criticism.

There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.

Appellate review is not a magic wand and we undermine public confidence in the judicial process when we make it look like it is.

My self-confidence can be measured out in teaspoons mixed into my poetry, and it still always tastes funny in my mouth.

I've never done anything so political before. I've spent years shouting my mouth off about serious issues over dinner tables but never really had the confidence to express my views in a song.

What a creature of strange moods [Winston Churchill] is - always at the top of the wheel of confidence or at the bottom of an intense depression.

First, the constitution [of Ukraine] has to be reformed. Only then can confidence building and border security follow.

There are weaknesses that you have to understand and it takes a lot of discipline for the players to be able to play it effectively and have confidence in what they're doing.

Russell Wilson has got a tremendous competitive mindset and it stems from the confidence that he feels based on the preparation that he puts in.