Quotes About Processing

#1. I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I was ever going to master it. Then I remembered that line from Jaws and couldn't help smiling: 'We're gonna need a bigger boat.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#2. Virtual-reality researchers have long struggled to eliminate effects that distort the brain's normal processing of visual information, and when these effects arise in equipment that augments or mediates the real world, they can be that much more disturbing.

Steve Mann

#3. I deal with this spiritual issue every day - either shooting or processing or sorting or discussing or having conversations - I'm in constant contact with it.

Leonard Nimoy

#4. The more we remember, the better we are at processing the world. And the better we are at processing the world, the more we can remember about it.

Joshua Foer

#5. All this hoping for something- or someone- that's maybe hopeless. I'm having a hard time processing what I am supposed to believe, or if I'm even supposed to. There is too much information, and I don't like a lot of it.

David Levithan

#6. They're very strong in memory. Didn't do very much in microprocessors or digital signal processing.

Jack Kilby

#7. We need language. We need language to tell stories. We need stories to create a self. We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains. The self we create is a fiction.

Mohsin Hamid

#8. The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior.

Ethan Zuckerman

#9. While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.

Alan Autry

#10. I damaged all the complicated bits of the brain to do with processing and emotional control. I was prey to every single emotion that swept over me and I couldn't deal with it. I had to re-learn things from scratch.

Richard Hammond

#11. I can't listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You're just processing too much, there's no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears.

Tom Waits

#12. An individual's ability to draw is ... the ability to shift to a different-from-ordinary way of processing visual information - to shift from verbal, analytic processing to spatial, global processing.

Betty Edwards

#13. Today promised not to be about the ecstasy of life on a farm. Today was the day we were "processing" broilers or, to abandon euphemism, killing chickens.

Michael Pollan

#14. Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.

Maxim Gorky

#15. A lot of the parallel processing software we're currently developing for supercomputers is tantric.

Frederick Lenz

#16. I took computers in high school. I would do all my own programming, but I didn't see the future of computers for anything other than data processing. Who was going to use a computer for communications?

Craig Hatkoff

#17. To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that.

Aldrich Ames

#18. The term, information at your fingertips, is to remind people what a broad role the personal computer will be playing. It's not a computation device, it's not a word processing or a spreadsheet device. It's a window onto the world of information.

Bill Gates

#19. We can never know more than the mind can assimilate and process, nor can we discuss any aspect of the world for which there is no language.

Padma Viswanathan

#20. The central industry of modern civilisation, tending, because of its control over materials, to spread into and ultimately incorporate older industries such as mining, smelting, oil- refining, textiles, rubber, building, and even agriculture in respect to fertilizers and food processing.

John Desmond Bernal

#21. The ability to create same day straight through processing of mutual fund trades is a matter of will.

Kenneth C. Griffin

#22. Poetry was the processing of my thoughts until the slag of justification fell away and I was left with the cold steel truths of life.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#23. A lot of evidence shows that most of our cognitive processing is unconscious - phenomenal experience is just a very small slice or partition of a much larger space in which mental processing takes place.

Thomas Metzinger

#24. Please understand, I am not saying that technology is unimportant. I understand that technology is important. But if we are just focusing on technology and investing in an IT manufacturing plant to come up with higher performance processing [chips], we will not succeed.

Satoru Iwata

#25. Some people just need to read and think, to spend time alone sorting through the stories in their heads

Ronald T. Potter-Efron

#26. I wouldn't make it through the day without singing. It is my solace and my meditation and my release. It lets me know how I'm processing things, what I'm processing, if I'm out of touch in some area.

Bellamy Young

#27. Thank you industrialization. Thank you steel mill. Thank you power station. And thank you chemical processing industry that gave us time to read books.

Hans Rosling

#28. Often kids in a computer lab learn about word-processing, but if they want to write an essay, they write it by hand. This is exactly the opposite of what you want them to learn. They're approaching the computer as just another abstract school subject.

Seymour Papert

#29. Can we drop the 'artificial intelligence'? It's a bit like me calling you a meat-based processing system.

Alastair Reynolds

#30. Most of the complexity of a human neuron is devoted to maintaining its life-support functions, not its information-processing capabilities. Ultimately, we will be able to port our mental processes to a more suitable computational substrate. Then our minds won't have to stay so small.

Ray Kurzweil

#31. Every one of today's smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers that guided astronauts to the moon.

Peter Thiel

#32. Being a good listener is more than just being quiet. It's reflecting back on what you're hearing. It's processing the information to formulate a question, a comment or a speech.

Shelley Moore Capito

#33. IPhone4 is sold in the U.S., Europe and elsewhere, but it was assembled in China. As the world's center for the processing of IT products, China's environment is paying the price.

Ma Jun

#34. She came alive as one returns from sleep. Alive but different. An empty husk capable of thought, of hearing, of processing. Of wanting men dead.

Hugh Howey

#35. With a little more tweaking, we could make orange juice in the orange without any packaging or processing.

Homaro Cantu

#36. I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed to me that they tapped into a fundamental distinction in language processing, indeed in cognitive processing, between memory lookup and rule-driven computation.

Steven Pinker

#37. We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

Bill Gates

#38. Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.

Jan Karon

#39. The amygdala plays a crucial role in processing fear, and minus her two amygdalae, S.M. became unflappable. Studies of her are actually a hoot to read, since they basically consist of scientists concocting ever-more-elaborate ways of trying to scare her.

Sam Kean

#40. I'll catch any rose in my vase-shaped heart, then process it through my vascular system, until there's nothing left.

Will Advise

#41. True peacekeeping is about properly processing the emotions before they get stuffed and rot into something horribly toxic.

Lysa TerKeurst

#42. You don't train someone for all of those years of medical school and residency, particularly people who want to help others optimize their physical and psychological health, and then have them run a claims-processing operation for insurance companies.

Malcolm Gladwell

#43. If you know the mother's genome and the father's genome, and you see that the children have some genes that neither parent has, then you know that difference is either a mutation or a processing error.

Leroy Hood

#44. To put it bluntly, research shows that we can't multitask. We are biologically incapable of processing attention-rich inputs simultaneously.

John Medina

#45. Daydreaming defeats practice; those of us who browse TV while working out will never reach the top ranks. Paying full attention seems to boost the mind's processing speed, strengthen synaptic connections, and expand or create neural networks for what we are practicing.

Daniel Goleman

#46. 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

#47. It was better not to talk. They had a way of hearing one thing and processing it as something else.

Alexandra Bracken

#48. Food processing began as a way to extend the shelf life of food by protecting it from these competitors. This is often accomplished by making the food less appealing to them, by removing nutrients from it

Michael Pollan

#49. Changes in behavioral state are accompanied by internally coordinated changes in the information processing mode of local neuronal circuits.

Stephen Harrod Buhner

#50. The reason some people see the world so differently from others is that the human brain doesn't just take a picture of the external world like a camera; it is constantly interpreting and processing the information it receives.

Shawn Achor

#51. Beating a legend is a very good feeling, but internally I was processing the realization that I could compete with anyone.

Tommy Morrison

#52. Hunches [are] just messages from the subconscious, which [is] thinking furiously all the time and processing information we have not consciously noted.

Dean Koontz

#53. When you walk around, your vision system is processing a whole bunch of signals in milliseconds and judging that a visual object is a wall, or an imminent cliff, or a car heading towards you. This might be disturbing to a lot of people, but some of those guesses are errors.

Usama Fayyad

#54. At extremely high processing speeds we are able to find patterns of order in what other people would perceive as chaos.

Frederick Lenz

#55. I automate some tasks and delegate many others. Doing research, job organization, data processing, field surveys, and plan preparation can be tedious, detailed work.

Mark Mason

#56. My brain had a difficult time processing what Dad being unfrozen meant.

Angela McPherson

#57. In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely the string class and regular expressions. Regular expressions are built into the language and are very tuned up for use.

Yukihiro Matsumoto

#58. To our dismay, users who had been enduring several hour waits between jobs run under batch processing were suddenly restless when response times were more than a second.

Fernando J. Corbato

#59. When I use a PC today I cannot understand why a machine with 1,000 times more processing power has a worse user response than the machine I was using in the late '80s at Acorn,' remarks Steve Furber. 'Well, I do know why it is, but it still seems the wrong answer.

Tom Lean

#60. I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material that retains too many connections to life to be approached strictly and aesthetically. A memoir is a risk, a one-off, a bastard child.

Rachel Cusk

#61. Humanity is an assemblage of information-processing entities, and in that regard you have potential.

Alastair Reynolds

#62. To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality.

Cliff Shaw

#63. The processing of universals is the job of the unconscious. If we feed it the opposite it breaks; when it breaks we break and the people around us break.

Stefan Molyneux

#64. While the scale of our library is certainly attractive to our users, equally important is the quality of the content we provide and our state-of-the-art processing operation that vets every single piece of content that's submitted to ensure only the most suitable content is included.

Jon Oringer

#65. what year did a single typical desktop computer surpass the combined processing power of humanity? 1994.

Randall Munroe

#66. Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does.

David Chalmers

#67. I'm always trying to find the next comedian that just gives me something a little funny to combine with all of the depressing news that I'm processing.

Jesse Williams

#68. For me, writing is just processing.

Mary Lambert

#69. Human beings do not relate to written words in the same way that they will relate to spoken words. They do not relate to music in the same way that they do to pictures. It's all different parts of our head, different parts of our minds processing this.

Neil Gaiman

#70. There's a lot of real estate in our brain dedicated to facial recognition and to physics. That takes a lot of processing power out of our brain.

Jon Favreau

#71. Once we make our relationship choices in an adult way, a prospective partner who is unavailable, nonreciprocal, or not open to processing feelings and issues, becomes, by those very facts, unappealing. Once we love ourselves, people no longer look good to us unless they are good for us.

David Richo

#72. I have already discovered that it is useless to ask neuroscientists questions that lie outside their specialty. The dopamine guys know the dopamine guys, but they don't know the cognitive-processing guys.

Karen Pryor

#73. I/O-bound programs are constrained by data access. These are programs where adding more processing power or RAM often makes little difference.

Jim R. Wilson

#74. Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to be liable for it. Banks don't look at signatures. They're processing millions of checks and they have very little liability.

Frank Abagnale

#75. The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel - one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.

Steve Jobs

#76. Well, more or less, you just got struck by lightning."
"Wait, what?" My brain stopped processing for a prolonged moment unable to wrap around that one. How the hell had that happened? "So basically I was filled with 1.21 jiggawatts?
Can I travel through time now?

Elizabeth Sharp

#77. The significance of a bit depends not just on its value but on how that value affects other bits over time, as part of the continued information processing that makes up the dynamical evolution of the universe.

Seth Lloyd

#78. The beauty of word processing, God bless my word processor, is that it keeps the plotting very fluid. The prose becomes like a liquid that you can manipulate at will. In the old days, when I typed, every piece of typing paper was like cast in concrete.

Sue Grafton

#79. There are fast chewers and slow chewers, long chewers and short chewers, right-chewing people and left-chewing people. Some of us chew straight up and down, and others chew side-to-side, like cows. Your oral processing habits are a physiological fingerprint.

Mary Roach

#80. I did everything. I worked at S.S. Kresge, the five-and-dime. I worked in a mailroom. I worked processing insurance claims.

Grace Hightower

#81. I also do my own processing, so it means a big commitment in lab time.

Leonard Nimoy

#82. Therein lies the key, I think, to Einstein's brilliance and the lessons of his life. As a young student he never did well with rote learning. And later, as a theorist, his success came not from the brute strength of his mental processing power but from his imagination and creativity.

Walter Isaacson

#83. In addition to thinking aloud about your processing of text, plan to show students how you respond to the completion of an organizer or write a constructed response.

Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins

#84. If we had a hard time, my mother would sit me down and we would talk about it, and she kept talking and kept processing until we started to laugh about it.

Liza Minnelli

#85. We are writing in the age of stylish minimalism that in truth has become even more cautious because of word processing. Nowadays, creative writing students are underwriting rather than overdoing it.

Stephen Kuusisto

#86. I think I'm going to cry, this is crazy."
"No, you're just processing. Go ahead and cry."
"I thought men got nervous around crying females."
"I'm a Marine, remember? We're trained to handle anything.

Jayne Ann Krentz

#87. I am annoyed by people that send messages via FaceBook because I get an e-mail telling me there is a message on FaceBook - so I end up processing two messages for every one sent.

Vint Cerf

#88. Last year, Congress passed a law that directs the Federal Reserve to set limits on debit card swipe fees that are reasonable and proportional to the cost of processing those transactions. Like most Americans, I had no idea that swipe fees charged to American businesses are the highest in the world.

Peter Welch

#89. You may not agree with the idea that organisms are algorithms, and that giraffes, tomatoes and human beings are just different methods for processing data. But you should know that this is current scientific dogma, and that it is changing our world beyond recognition.

Yuval Noah Harari

#90. Logical thinking can outwit random processing!

Stephen Richards

#91. A vervet, in other words, is very good at processing certain kinds of vervetish information, but not so good at processing other kinds of information.

Malcolm Gladwell

#92. The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.

Frances Beinecke

#93. The data-processing system invented by the Sumerians is called 'writing'.

Yuval Noah Harari

#94. technologies like payroll processing software, factory automation, computer-controlled machines, automated inventory control, and word processing have been deployed for routine work, substituting for workers in clerical tasks, on the factory floor, and doing rote information processing.

Erik Brynjolfsson

#95. Ultimately, thinking is a very inefficient method of processing data.

Frederick Lenz

#96. Reflecting on my Autism - The processing and communication issues that I have I look at it like this I have had set cards dealt to me and I'm going play them to the best of my abilities.

Paul Isaacs

#97. The incredible processing power of Tegra X1 enables us to bring Doom 3: BFG to Android and we're excited by the possibilities that GRID is bringing to gaming.

Tim Willits

#98. There are many things we don't understand, and many ways to unlock the brain and maximize function. Don't ever let anybody tell you it can't be done.

Sally Fryer Dietz

#99. Reliable and affordable energy is essential for meeting basic human needs and fueling economic growth, but many of the most difficult and dangerous environmental problems at every level of economic development arise from the harvesting, transport, processing, and conversion of energy

John Holdren

#100. Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.

Brian Eno