Stephen Hawking
Theoretical Physicist
"Although I cannot move, and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind, I am free."
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Ken Thompson
Computer Scientist
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code."
Ted Nelson
Computer Scientist
"The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do."
Seth Lloyd
Computer Scientist
"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."
Tommy Lee
Musician, Drummer
"I am such a gearhead. In my recording studio, I personally engineer and edit everything on computers."
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"I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did."
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"Computers can do better than ever what needn't be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly."
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"Memory has always been social. Now we're using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too."
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"Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society."
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"The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before."
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"I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized."
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"Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think."
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"The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs."
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"Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me"
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"The trouble with the Internet is that it's replacing masturbation as a leisure activity."
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"Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more."
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"[I]nside every computer, there is a hidden man being bored."
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"Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn."
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"If India is computer, Congress is its default program."
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"There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over."
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"Work on a computer that is disconnected from the internet."
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"No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically."
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"Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive."
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"Make it just like a Mac."
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"I don't own a computer. I've never seen anything online at all - nothing. I don't own a word processor. I have none of that stuff. It's not an act of rebellion. I'm just not a gadget person."
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