Computer Mania Quotes

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off. ~ Ray Bradbury

Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what. ~ Samuel Beckett

Melancholia is the beginning and a part of mania. The development of a mania is really a worsening of the disease (melancholia) rather than a change into another disease. ~ Aretaeus Of Cappadocia

The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts. ~ Gustave Flaubert

There's a lot of Dave mania when I speak. ~ Dave Pelzer

An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur. ~ Leo Tolstoy

Computer hacking was like a chemical bond holding us all together. ~ Rachel Zhang

I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania. ~ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Mania can be as terrifying as it gets. It is certainly as insane as one gets and so it's frightening when it gets out of control, but there are periods of mania when it can be extremely attractive. ~ Kay Redfield Jamison

I'm heavily medicated yet happily manic, I've been stuck on hypo mania for years. ~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

All the greatest men are maniacs. They are possessed by a mania which drives them forward towards thier goal. The great scientists, the philosophers, the religious leaders - all maniacs. What else but a blind singlenee of purpose could have given focus to thier genius, would have kept them in the groove of purpose. Mania ... is as priceless as genius. ~ Ian Fleming

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all. ~ John F. Kennedy

It wasn't the highs and lows of mania anymore, just the constant drone of pessimism and paranoia that were making it hard to focus on anything else. ~ A. Meredith Walters

We choose mania over boredom every time. ~ James Gleick

Mania is a wonderful feeling. ~ Jeff Bridges

If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution. ~ Robert Sewell

The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts. ~ Karl Abraham

All problems in Computer Science can be solved by another level of indirection. ~ Butler Lampson

All problems in computer graphics can be solved with a matrix inversion. ~ Jim Blinn

Honestly, I try to think about when I first got into wrestling, and I remember Wrestle Mania VI being the first time that I watched Wrestle Mania as it happened. ~ Box Brown

The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim. ~ Edsger Dijkstra

Sometimes I felt like I was drawn to mania. That Patrick was right, and I had loved him only during his manic episodes. That mania was true love. And it could consume you like it had consumed Patrick, or it could leave you feeling tired and used up, like it had left me. Nothing seemed to exist in between. ~ Andrea Lochen

The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head's going to explode with ideas. ~ Alice Weaver Flaherty

Any fool can use a computer. Many do. ~ Ted Nelson

Remember, when you connect with another computer, you're connecting to every computer that computer has connected to. ~ Dennis Miller

Most papers in computer science describe how their author learned what someone else already knew. ~ Peter Landin

I've written this song called 'Insania' - it's a mix of Insane and Mania, and even though it's a made up word you instantly know what it means! ~ Peter Andre

The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity. ~ Tony Hoare

12 Hours on the computer... sounds like I am vip... few people stay on computer so long or not big %. ~ Deyth Banger

There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken. ~ Juan Gabriel Vasquez

The attendant thinks it is some sudden form of religious mania which has seized him. If so, we must look out for squalls, for a strong man with homicidal and religious mania at once might be dangerous. The combination is a dreadful one. At nine o'clock I visited ~ Bram Stoker

I don't need to waste my time with a computer just because I am a computer scientist. ~ Edsger Dijkstra

I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer. ~ Dave Barry

In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that that computer has ever linked up to. ~ Dennis Miller

I like computers. It's the first time that I am endorsing a computer brand. I am very computer savvy, so this is certainly up my ally. ~ Bill Vaughan

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer. ~ Alan Perlis

That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers. ~ Larry Niven

I use a computer. I don't know if that qualifies me as a techie, but I'm pretty good on the computer. ~ Leonard Nimoy

The universe is a quantum computer. Since you can simulate any set of particle interactions with a quantum computer made of the same number of particles, then there's no practical difference between the universe and a quantum computer simulating the universe. ~ David Walton

I appreciate the sentiment that I am a popular woman in computer gaming circles; but I prefer being thought of as a computer game designer rather than a woman computer game designer. I don't put myself into gender mode when designing a game. ~ Roberta Williams

Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars. ~ Iris Apfel

He had a mania for washing and disinfecting himself ... For him the only danger came from the microbes that attacked the body. He had not studied the microbe of conscience which eats into the soul. ~ Anais Nin

I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate. ~ Nicholas Negroponte

Taxpayers have spent more than $200 billion in the last decade on computer systems that are antiquated, incompatible, and not doing the job. ~ William Cohen

Computer science is fascinating. As you study computer science, you will find that you develop your mind. It is literally like doing Buddhist exercises all day long. ~ Frederick Lenz

I proudly tell people, 'I have no computer,' so as not to be ashamed of having no computer. ~ Tom Stoppard

Computer dating? It's terrific if you're a computer! ~ Rita Mae Brown

Currently computer graphics are used a great deal, but it can be excessive. ~ Hayao Miyazaki

Never hesitate to ask a lesser person. ~ Confucius

Similarly, computer literacy courses tend to produce computer people who know a lot about computers or a piece of software but they don't help people become fluent with the machine. ~ Seymour Papert

When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students. ~ Alan Perlis

Before a kid learns how to use a computer that can solve mathematical problems, he or she should know how to do arithmetic without a computer. ~ Andy Rooney

But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed, you're given excellent reason to be even more so. ~ Kay Redfield Jamison

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men. ~ Isaac Asimov

The greatest scandal of the century in American psychiatry ... is the growing mania among thousands of inept therapists, family counselors, and social workers for arousing false memories of childhoood sexual abuse. ~ Martin Gardner

Celebrities, make it harder for hackers to get nude pics of you from your computer by not putting nude pics of yourself on the computer. ~ Ricky Gervais

Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer. ~ Marvin Minsky

They've finally comes up with the perfect office computer. If it makes a mistake, it blames another computer. ~ Milton Berle

This week Apple stores are holding free computer programming classes for children. Or as that's called in China, a job fair. ~ Conan O'Brien

The mania started with insomnia and not eating and being driven, driven to find an apartment, driven to see everybody, driven to do New York, driven to never shut up. ~ Patty Duke

What's your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that's always on your person. ~ Bill Joy

3D is like a computer. Every six months that computer that was state of the art is now obsolete. ~ Carl Mazzocone

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent. ~ Sydney Brenner

I don't even go on the computer. Don't anybody around me get on the computer. ~ Gorilla Zoe

No one messes around with a nerd's computer and escapes unscathed. ~ E.A. Bucchianeri

An activity originally intended to be performed by low-status, clerical – and more often than not, female – computer programming was gradually and deliberately transformed into a high-status, scientific, and masculine discipline. ~ Nathan L. Ensmenger

Knowledge is an attitude, a passion, actually an illicit attitude. For the compulsion to know is like dipsomania, erotomania, and homicidal mania, in producing a character that is out of balance. It is not at all that the scientist goes after the truth. ~ Soren Kierkegaard

The main motivations were to try to leverage Google's expertise with large computer systems and to try to give something back to science ~ Susan Wojcicki

Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers. ~ Jessica Livingston

As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer. ~ Janet Fitch

I have long been alarmed by people's sheeplike acceptance of the term 'computer technology' - it sounds so objective and inexorable - when most computer technology is really a bunch of ideas turned into conventions and packages. ~ Ted Nelson

I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out. ~ Felix Dennis

An artist creates songs and timeless moments that are reflections that impact culture, and you can do that in any way - with guitars, ukelele, a computer. So, that will never die. It's always the artist behind the computer, not the computer. ~ Skrillex

We've created life in our own image. ~ Stephen Hawking

One good thing about my computer: it never asks why. ~ Ashleigh Brilliant

Theoretical Computer Science is just as useless as everything we mathematicians do. ~ Jennifer Tour Chayes

Allowing the computer to do one thing is only boring if you don't use the time that the computer saves you to do something else. ~ Richie Hawtin

Strapping a computer display to your face is not the answer. ~ John Gruber

Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I don't even have my own computer. ~ Daley Thompson

Suddenly I wanted to get better. Mania wasn't fun anymore. It wasn't creative or visionary. It was mean parody at best, a cheap chemical trick. I needed to stop and get better. I'd take whatever they gave me, I pledged silently. I'd take Trilafon or Thorazine or whatever. I just wanted to sleep. ~ David Lovelace

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes ~ Edsger W. Dijkstra

The first thing I look for, in addition to a performer's range, is a performer's look in comparison to the character. That is very important to me as a casting director. ("The Making of Dual Mania: Filmmaking Chicago Style," 2018) ~ Cat Ellington

Why am I arguing with a computer? ~ Edge

The brain processes information using 100,000 times less energy than we do right now with this computer technology that we have. ~ Kwabena Boahen

Every new computer program is basically doing some task that a person used to do. But the computer usually does it faster, more accurately, for less money, and without any health insurance costs. ~ Douglas Rushkoff

COMPUTER: HELLO, CECIL. HOW ARE YOU?
CECIL: Computer! I am...I am doing well. How are you?
COMPUTER: BETTER. CECIL, DO YOU LOVE COMPUTER?
CECIL: I admit, I had not given it much though. I like computers generally. They calculate and power off and on. I suppose, given time and perhaps some gifts, I could learn to... [shifting noises] hey! ~ Joseph Fink

There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion. ~ Hal Abelson

In the end, it all comes down to 0 and 1 ~ Vineet Goel

It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow. ~ Craig Bruce

I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday. ~ Fred Saberhagen

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

Computer science really involves the same mindset, particularly artificial intelligence. ~ Frederick Lenz

One of the many, many horrors of depression is that it takes your words away from you. You realise the other person is talking, and you haven't been saying anything for hours on end. This is a painful inversion of mania's excess of speech. You simply run out of words at some point. This is what they mean by the two poles of 'bipolar'. ~ Sam Twyford-Moore

It's funny, because I'm so associated with digital art and computer art, and yet I spend so little time in front of the computer. ~ Keith Fullerton Whitman

I recommend, for many people, the study of computer science. Our natural resource in America is the mind. The mindset in computer science is very similar to the mindset in Zen. ~ Frederick Lenz

It's amazing to me that owning your own computer was considered impossible. ~ Randy Wigginton

The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before. ~ Bill Gates

I can write faster on a typewriter than you can on a computer. I do 120 words a minute, and you can't do that on a computer. ~ Ray Bradbury