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Quotes About Perception

Computers aren't intelligent, they only think they are.
~ Emo Philips
Computers don't seem real to me because there's a sheet of glass between you and whatever is happening.
~ Stanley Donwood
I do not believe in objects. I believe only in their relationships.
~ Georges Braque
I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.
~ Gerald Scarfe
If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and no-one dares criticize it.
~ Unknown
Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey.
~ Bill Gates
If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.
~ Sally Phillips
I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Some traders still think that a computer could not trade as well as they can.
~ Thomas Peterffy
Computer science is the most misunderstood field there is. You are being paid to solve puzzles. For a person who has practiced meditation in past lives, that is the way your mind works.
~ Frederick Lenz
Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context.
~ Larry Wall
If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
~ Nate Silver
The computer is a mind machine. It doesn't have its own psychology, but in a way it presents itself as though it does.
~ Sherry Turkle
I'm like the random guy who you would think I'm a computer freak and you would think that I'm a massive art collector, but I'm really not.
~ Pharrell Williams
I'm not a computer girl.
~ Sandy Duncan
The typical computer network isn't like a house with windows, doors, and locks. It's more like a gauze tent encircled by a band of drunk teenagers with lit matches.
~ Robert David Steele
Apple has struck a cultural nerve, especially with Generation X and Gen Y, while Windows and PC are viewed in essence as 'My parents' computer'.
~ Unknown
The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the mind has managed to construct.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Just because someone thinks they remember something in detail, with confidence and with emotion, does not mean that it actually happened, .. False memories have these characteristics too.
~ Elizabeth Loftus
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
~ Virginia Woolf
I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness.
~ Giorgio Armani
People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
~ Saadi
Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
~ Arthur Ashe
Confidence is very important - even pretending to be confident. If you make a mistake but do not let your opponent see what you are thinking then he may overlook the mistake.
~ Viswanathan Anand