Top 50 Compute Quotes
#1. When someone dies instantly, then I think the well of grief and disbelief all mixed in with it is unfathomable. And when murder is involved, that just takes it into a whole new place. There is an extra dimension you just can't compute or deal with.
Andrew Buchan
#2. Who can compute what the world loses in the multitude of promising intellects combined with timid characters, who dare not follow out any bold, vigorous, independent train of thought, lest it should land them in something which would admit of being considered irreligious or immoral?
John Stuart Mill
#3. When companies start measuring success by clicks that doesn't compute to us, the only thing that computes to us is cash.
Bruce Berkowitz
#4. The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have to penetrate the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#5. Look out into the July night, and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as the bonfires of the meadow-flies. Yet the powers of numbers cannot compute its enormous age, - lasting as space and time, - embosomed in time and space.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#6. Designed from DNA to compute, I said, appalled at the thought of Core machines being given the benefit of the doubt when it came to souls.
Dan Simmons
#7. For his birthday, she'd bought him an iPhone, which he'd returned to the store. He'd apologized, saying that it was a thoughtful gift, but he didn't want to carry a tiny high-powered mainframe on which he could compute astronomical algorithms, or check Facebook. He wanted a phone.
Laura Kasischke
#8. We [he and Halmos] share a philosophy about linear algebra: we think basis-free, we write basis-free , but when the chips are down we close the office door and compute with matrices like fury.
Irving Kaplansky
#9. From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that could compute things.
Michael Dell
#10. A common way to compute density is, of course, to take the ratio of an object's mass to its volume. But other types of densities exist, such as the resistance of somebody's brain to the imparting of common sense ...
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#11. When things consistently fail to compute, it does point to a consistently undefined possibility.
Edwin F. Becker
#12. I think what's really amazing is that given the scale of the web and getting the compute power we have today, we're starting to see things that appear intelligent but actually aren't semantically intelligent.
Marissa Mayer
#14. There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.
Vannevar Bush
#15. I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustained effort that cannot be done part time, so it's something you have to do around the clock, and that doesn't compute with our existing educational system.
Peter Thiel
#16. Not every child learns the same way. I could not learn through my eyes. Reading was impossible. Math, to compute it in my mind, was impossible. I learned everything through listening.
Henry Winkler
#17. Essentially, we're always trying to reduce latency. As you try to reduce the latency of the experience, you can only get it down so far before we start running into the limitations of game engines, computing, the intensity of the experience you're trying to compute.
Brendan Iribe
#18. A heavy silence was followed by a vibration beneath their feet and Iko's voice. I don't compute.
Marissa Meyer
#19. The reference point argument is as follows: do not compute odds from the vantage point of the winning gambler (or the lucky Casanova, or the endlessly bouncing back New York City, or the invincible Carthage), but from all those who started in the cohort. Consider
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#20. Sometimes your brain can't compute what your eyes see. Sometimes you need to stare, hoping maybe you'll wake up and find out everything was a dream. Unfortunately for me, I didn't wake up.
Jennifer M. Eaton
#21. The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?
Ira Glass
#22. In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances.
Seth Lloyd
#23. My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.
China Mieville
#24. Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.
William Jennings Bryan
#25. [Science] works! Planes fly. Cars drive. Computers compute. If you base medicine on science, you cure people. If you base the design of planes on science, they fly. If you base the design of rockets on science, they reach the moon. It works ... bitches.
Richard Dawkins
#26. Experimental work of great refinement is necessary in order to determine atomic weights. No relationships between them have yet been certainly found which make it possible for us to compute by any sort of calculation exactly the value of any one atomic weight from any other.
Theodore William Richards
#27. I'm still a Chicagoan in the fact that I can't do Christmas with sand and palm trees. It just doesn't compute - it's not Christmas unless your face hurts when you step outside.
Johnny Galecki
#28. If we not only feed that most intelligent computer which is our brain but also compute the data we collect, we cannot go wrong. In a way we all can guess what will happen.
Gisela Hausmann
#29. I think some people see me as being some kind of lovable, bumbling buffoon, and I'm actually quite mouthy and sharp, and that doesn't compute.
Nick Frost
#30. We hid the Maps, Thomas." At first it didn't compute. "Huh?
James Dashner
#31. Life is sacred to me on all levels. Abortion does not compute with my philosophy.
Kate Mulgrew
#32. What I'm really interested in is this idea of a 'brain co-processor' - a device that can record from, and deliver information to, so many points in the brain, with a computational infrastructure in between - a computer that can process the information and compute exactly what needs to be restored.
Edward Boyden
#33. There isn't a ruler, a yard stick or a measuring tape in the entire world long enough to compute the strength and capabilities inside you.
Paul J. Meyer
#35. Intelligence is not measured by the mind's ability to compute, but by the heart's will to contrive.
Kimberly Adams Stedronsky
#36. If the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with the processing of the computer. We joke that things don't compute, that we need a reboot, or that our memory has been wiped.
Douglas Rushkoff
#37. Protested Mrs. Featherstone, a lady in her thirties, whose violently compressed figure suggested that she was engaged in a perpetual struggle to compute her weight in terms of the first syllables of her name rather than the last.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#38. What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Robert Burns
#39. Know thou that every fixed star hath its own planets, and every planet its own creatures, whose number no man can compute.
Baha'u'llah
#40. The upshot of all this is that we live in a universe whose age we can't quite compute, surrounded by stars whose distances we don't altogether know, filled with matter we can't identify, operating in conformance with physical laws whose properties we don't truly understand.
Bill Bryson
#41. Stalwart Zeno seemed oblivious, that faith in his daughter being alive after more than forty days did not compute with faith that Brett Kincaid would soon be arrested for a crime involving his daughter.
Joyce Carol Oates
#42. No formula in finance tells you that the moat is 28 feet wide and 16 feet deep. That's what drives the academics crazy. They can compute standard deviations and betas, but they can't understand moats.
Warren Buffett
#43. Even the word computer is outdated now that most people don't use their computer to compute anything at all - rather, it has become just like that big disorganized drawer everyone has in their kitchen, what in my family we called the junk drawer.
Daniel J. Levitin
#44. I once got a call from a bank, asking me to compute a mortgage, since their computers were down. This was a very depressing moment.
Richard A. Falk
#46. The deep experience of the lonely climb on the mountain of success brings a wealth beyond power to compute. To you all suffering is understandable and your heart opens wide in sympathy.
Alice Foote MacDougall
#47. That voice. It couldn't be.
She turned.
The Marine.
Her brain tried to compute the man before her. The same uncompromising blue-gray eyes, but more distant. The same fit body, but more space filling. The same rugged features, but more bearded.
Bearded!
Kate Meader
#48. We've announced an Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, a bunch of low-cost commodity servers running Linux, integrated in our case, with InfiniBand - connected with InfiniBand vs. the traditional Ethernet.
Larry Ellison
#49. It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up.
Lawrence Hargrave
#50. Computers don't lie, but liars can compute.
Terry Hayes
