All Quotes

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.
‐‐ Ivan Illich

The compulsion to do the opposite of what you are told does not lend itself to many occupations outside the entertainment industry. Within the industry, it is unlikely that you will be very successful without it.
‐‐ Greg Fitzsimmons

The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.
‐‐ T. C. Boyle

The computer brings out the worst in some people.
‐‐ Brian Eno

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.
‐‐ Frank Zappa

The computer cuts my production time in half. I love it.
‐‐ Scott Adams

The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.
‐‐ James Dyson

The computer environment is radically different today. In the 1980s, it was like the Wild West, with a lot of open territory. Now, the cowboys have moved out and the farmers have moved in.
‐‐ Mitch Kapor

The computer has moved to the palm of our hands now.
‐‐ Brad D. Smith

The computer has played a role in destroying creativity with the Photoshop. Everybody thinks they're a designer.
‐‐ George Lois

The computer industry began with home-brew boxes that everyone had to program for themselves, but that was a huge hassle. The computer revolution didn't explode until the first Macintosh arrived, with its point-and-click simplicity.
‐‐ Clive Thompson

The computer industry is creatively bankrupt.
‐‐ Jonathan Ive

The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion.
‐‐ Richard Stallman

The computer is a moron.
‐‐ Peter Drucker

The computer is a tool, just like pencil or charcoal, allowing illustrators to manipulate images from their sketchbooks.
‐‐ Chris Riddell

The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk.
‐‐ Yoko Ono

The computer is not, in our opinion, a good model of the mind, but it is as the trumpet is to the orchestra - you really need it. And so, we have very massive simulations in computers because the problem is, of course, very complex.
‐‐ Gerald Edelman

The computer is very good for me; I can magnify my work very easily.
‐‐ Jean Giraud

The computer is your passport, not only to the future but to knowing what's going around you.
‐‐ Michael Nutter

The computer model will be replaced by an organic model, in which the brain-mind is embodied - part of a whole, dynamic, living organism: one driven by emotional forces, not only cognitive ones.
‐‐ Siri Hustvedt

The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.
‐‐ Tadao Ando

The computer seems easy because Apple makes the products so easy to use at home. It's the simple things, like getting the TV set up or getting the speakers to work. That drives me crazy.
‐‐ Chris O'Donnell

The computer, the noise of the computer feels like impatience. It's sort of the sound of impatience to me.
‐‐ Tony Kushner

The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.
‐‐ Vint Cerf

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.
‐‐ Alan Perlis

The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory.
‐‐ Eric Schmidt

The con movie is a little bit different where maybe we tell you what we're going to do but it never goes down the way you expect because there's so much double-crossing and cheats and lies going on along the whole way.
‐‐ Edward Burns

The conceit of an anchorman is we never think we're going to die, I suppose.
‐‐ Tom Brokaw

The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion.
‐‐ Friedrich List

The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!
‐‐ Antonia Fraser

The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer.
‐‐ Julia Leigh

The concentration of the ferment iron in living substance is very small, being in the region of 1 g to 10 million g of cellular substance.
‐‐ Otto Heinrich Warburg

The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the like.
‐‐ Lara St. John

The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.
‐‐ David Lynch

The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.
‐‐ Gustav Stresemann

The concept of being a locavore, or one who chooses whenever possible to incorporate locally grown or locally produced food into one's nutrition plan, is of great importance.
‐‐ Tyler Florence

The concept of clearing one's mind before performing a task so that it is consumed by nothing but that task, yet is open at the same time to anything that might happen - that concept can be applied to playing guitar, and it's enormously helpful for improvising.
‐‐ Kirk Hammett

The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?'
‐‐ Kanye West

The concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has long been used as an effective lens through which to examine the actions business can take toward ensuring mutual long-term well-being and sustainability.
‐‐ Klaus Schwab

The concept of disruption is about competitive response; it is not a theory of growth. It's adjacent to growth. But it's not about growth.
‐‐ Clayton M. Christensen

The concept of doing holiday episodes is a huge part of what's fantastic about doing TV. And viewers agree; you see the numbers going up for holiday episodes.
‐‐ Dan Harmon

The concept of doing something with child benefit, of changing the rules around child benefit, is something that has been being discussed for some time.
‐‐ Theresa May

The concept of evolution postulates that living organisms have common roots, and in turn, the existence of common features is powerful support for the concept of evolution.
‐‐ Hans Adolf Krebs

The concept of God in America is very different than it is in England. Because we see the horrendous outcome of religion as being an American thing, in which the name of God has been hijacked by a gang of psychopaths and bullies and homophobes, and the name of God has been used for their own twisted agendas.
‐‐ Nick Cave

The concept of God in Jewish orthodoxy is one where you're having constant quarrels with God. Where I come from, in Islam, the only concept of God is you submit to Him and you obey His commands; no quarreling allowed.
‐‐ Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The concept of graphene came along in 1947, but nobody paid much attention to it. I was fascinated because it had a linear E versus K while everything else that people were working on at that time had a quadratic dispersion relationship. I wondered why this was and what was so special about it. That was my fascination.
‐‐ Mildred S. Dresselhaus

The concept of happiness has to be reorganised.
‐‐ Daniel Kahneman

The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s.
‐‐ Nick Johnson

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.
‐‐ Christopher Hitchens