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My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity. I got involved in real computers and programming mainly by being - well, I was interested even as I came to graduate school.

~Dennis Ritchie

Topics: Being Came Complexity Computers Even Fairly Function Functions Got Graduate Graduate School Interested Involved Mainly Particular Programming Real School Terms Theoretical Theory Well Work I Came

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I don't like computers. I still like to do my drawings by hand.

~Dieter Rams

Topics: Computers Drawings Hand Like Still

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Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think.

~Dixie Carter

Topics: About Around Backyard Before Being Being There Cares Child Children Computers Dinner Dinner Table First Hear Human Human Being Learn Learning Parents Place Read Say Should Sit Table Take Think Who Who Cares

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If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers!

~Don Bluth

Topics: Best Both Both Worlds Computers Drawing Drudgery Joy Just Leave Machines Out Take Then Those Us Use Worlds

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People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.

~Donald Knuth

Topics: Casually Computers Hardware Idea Interested Least Like More Otherwise People Pretty Programs Should Some Than Underlying Weird Who Will Write

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Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.

~Doug Larson

Topics: Being Computers Consumption Dog Eaten Functions Home Homework Including Many New Perform

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Ever since Newton, we've done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we're now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

~Douglas Adams

Topics: Apart Aspects Communication Computer Computers Done Enables Ever Find How Limitless Most Newton Now Put Rather Science See Since Taking Than Things Together Us Work

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Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented; we're still trying to work out how it works. There's a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn't recognise. It's time for the machines to disappear. The computer's got to disappear into all of the things we use.

~Douglas Adams

Topics: Because Being Come Computer Computers Disappear Game Got How Interaction Invented Machines Out Recognise Still Technology Things Time Trying Use Work Work Out Works World Wrestling You

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People are seduced by signals from the world, but that is manipulation, not reality. Computers have learned more about us than we've learned about them.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: About Computers Learned Manipulation More People Reality Seduced Signals Than Them Us World

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Google did a great job hacking the Web to create search - and then monetizing search with advertising. And Apple did a great job humanizing hardware and software so that formerly daunting computers and applications could become consumer-friendly devices - even a lifestyle brand.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Advertising Apple Applications Become Brand Computers Could Create Daunting Devices Did Even Google Great Great Job Hacking Hardware Job Lifestyle Search Software Then Web

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