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Quotes About Computers

Detecting Cancer The surface structures of cancer cells are crinkly and wrinkly. These convoluted structures display fractal properties which vary markedly during the different stages of the cancer cell's growth. Using computers, mathematical pictures can be obtained, which reveal whether or not cells are going cancerous. The computer is able to measure the fractal structure of cells. If cells are too fractal, it spells trouble. There is something wrong with those cells.
~ Unknown
If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently.
~ Niklas Zennstrom
With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense.
~ Niklas Zennstrom
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
~ Pablo Picasso
The lawyer's assistant, who was scribbling down notes, lit right up. "Magic is supposed to affect electricity like that. I've read that wizards can't be in the same room with things like computers and stuff." I knew where she'd read that. I bit my
~ Patricia Briggs
Our experience using computers reflects a trade-off that was made fifty years ago or more.
~ Paul Dourish
At the same time, those powerful computers spend 95 percent of their time doing absolutely nothing. Modern personal computers perform very few tasks that use their full capacity for longer than a second or two. Outside these brief bursts of activity, most of the time they do nothing at all, generally while we try to figure out what to make of what just happened or what we want to do next.
~ Paul Dourish
It has been a long transition from interacting with computers using a soldering iron to interacting using a mouse. It has been neither smooth nor planned.
~ Paul Dourish
I'm looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration, with technical savvy, using cell phones and computers.
~ Perry Farrell
Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations.... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them "operators" or "programmers."
~ Peter F. Drucker