Computerized Quotes

#1. Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara ... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport.

Saul Alinsky

#2. If you are looking for a needle in a haystack, and somebody has already cataloged all the straw in the haystack, when you get to that needle you will recognize it's different than what was supposed to be there based on all that computerized haystack information that had been predetermined for you.

Francis Collins

#3. I would not minimize the digital divide, which separates the computerized world from the rest, nor would I underestimate the importance of traditional books.

Robert Darnton

#4. Computerized medical records will enable statistical analysis to be used to determine which treatments are most effective.

Temple Grandin

#5. While the liberal media elite depict the bowler as a chubby guy with a comb-over and polyester pants, the reality is that bowling is one of the most tech-heavy sports today. Robotic pinsetters and computerized scoring were just the beginning.

Chris Hardwick

#6. The moral angle to the foreclosure crisis - and, of course, in capitalism we're not supposed to be concerned with the moral stuff, but let's mention it anyway - shows a culture that is slowly giving in to a futuristic nightmare ideology of computerized greed and unchecked financial violence.

Matt Taibbi

#7. Writing on a computer makes saving what's been written too easy. Pretentious lead sentences are kept, not tossed. Instead of sitting surrounded by crumpled paper, the computerized writer has his mistakes neatly stored in digital memory.

P. J. O'Rourke

#8. Many of the touted advantages of electronic voting can still be achieved with paper ballots if you use a computerized ballot marking scheme.

Avi Rubin

#9. Records were replaced by CDs, and lead type died in favor of computerized fonts. However, each had a 100-year ride of popularity, so you can't feel too bad for them.

Nathan Myhrvold

#10. The Beatles production is often so 'perfect' that it sounds computerized. 'Sgt. Pepper' really does sound like it took four months to make.

Jon Landau

#11. On balance, I would say that anybody who reminds our lords and masters that the computerized society is fragile ... has definitely done a service to the public at large.

John Brunner

#12. We have a reliable computerized network devoted to counterterrorist activities.

George Pataki

#13. Sometimes when you have multimedia, people use it too much. It has to be a tool and not the end product, if you can use it as a tool. The same thing apples when you are recording. We had this problem in the 80's, we got so computerized there was no heart and soul in the music anymore.

Donny Osmond

#14. Many were starting to use computerized synthesizers & drum machines to produce an entirely new style of music. It was being punted by the critics that the guitar was old hat; I was reminded of the way my father & his clarinets were written off in the late Fifties.

Pete Townshend

#15. Generation C (people born after 1990) as connected, communicating, content-centric, computerized, community-oriented and always clicking.

Nicholas Ind

#16. I never want to make a movie which is going to be CG filled, cold, and computerized.

James Bobin

#17. There are a lot of people using technology that are playing to a click with backing vocals already stuck in there on some computerized thing that runs along in time to the show so they have these amazing vocals that are only partly the guys on stage producing them at the time.

James Young

#18. Beyond that, states had to also have electronic voting machines that made it possible for people who are physically handicapped to vote in private ... and the computerized voting machine made it very easy for, particularly, the blind.

DeForest Soaries

#19. Physicians need to capitalize on computerized, clinical decision-support tools that help them to keep abreast of medical knowledge and apply it uniformly.

Sanjaya Kumar

#20. He's computerized, but I won't let him come on cold. I created KITT. I understand the personality of the car.

William Daniels

#21. The ultimate downfall of the computerized holographic receptionist was that there was no amount of flattery, flirtation or chocolate that could convince one to lie for you.

Scott B. Pruden

#22. No matter how carefully records are kept and filed and computerized, they grow fuzzy with time. Stories grow by accretion. Tales accumulate
like dust. The longer the time lapse, the dustier the history
until it degenerates into fables.

Isaac Asimov

#23. At the end of the day, there is still one function of journalism that cannot be computerized, and that is reporters. You're always going to need reporters.

Stephen Kinzer

#24. Turn left in two hundred feet " the computerized voice said in a cheery voice. "There is no turn in two hundred feet you bitch " I yelled toward the screen. "Zoom out." Nothing happened. "ZOOM. OUT " I said again louder before the screen responded to the voice-activated command.

Jenn Bennett

#25. For a moment they all looked at Dermot incredulously, as if he'd just announced he was going to birth a kangaroo.

Charlaine Harris

#26. If this world is wearing thin And you're thinking of escape I'll go anywhere with you Just wrap me up in chains But if you try to go alone Don't think I'll understand (Stay) Stay with me

Siobhan Fahey

#27. I don't think crack happened by accident. I'm part conspiracy theorist, because you can't develop something that dangerous and have it not be planned.

Questlove

#28. Perfectionism is an ugly habit until you get results.

Bryan Way

#29. The most successful comics are always the hardest-working ones.

Marcus Brigstocke

#30. Lies are so suburban...But murder is nice and clean.

Carole Morin

#31. What's the difference between a communist or socialist and a progressive? Revolution or evolution? One requires a gun and the other eats away slowly.

Glenn Beck

#32. With multiplayer, permanent death, and an ever-changing world to explore and conquer, 'A Valley Without Wind' might be the place you're looking for if you need to escape the same dreary titles.

Rob Manuel

#33. Honor bright! Fair play is a jewel!

E.D.E.N. Southworth

#34. When I finally invent a time machine you will already know about it because I'll have told you a long time ago.

Dana Gould

#35. I'm tired of being ruled by the Skull and Bones. The only place they belong are on punk-rock albums!

Jello Biafra

#36. God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.

Norman Mailer

#37. To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought ... ?

Roland Barthes

#38. According to the latest L.A. Times poll, 75% of Californians believe the country is headed in the wrong direction. And 60% of Californians are so disillusioned, they're thinking about moving back to Mexico.

Jay Leno

#39. I was coming back from Tel Aviv recently, and we had forty minutes of bumps. I got so scared I grabbed a paper and pen and put them in my pocket, just in case we crashed and I needed to write a letter from wherever we landed.

Daniela Pestova