Supercomputer Quotes

#1. For someone who'e smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.

Gordon Korman

#2. I'm Galileo in prison. I'm a supercomputer in a junkyard. I'm being wasted, Irene. This town is killing me by inches, turning my mind to mush.

Eva Morgan

#3. Darryl likes codes," Skylar explained. "A few weeks ago, I asked him what someone might hypothetically need to break into a supercomputer. He hypothetically made me this.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#4. One artificially intelligent supercomputer pretending to be a hostile alien race for the purpose of testing humanity's character?

Ernest Cline

#5. That iPhone sitting in your pocket is the exact equivalent of a Cray XMP supercomputer from twenty years ago that used to cost ten million dollars. It's got the same operating system software, the same processing speed, the same data storage, compressed down to a six-hundred-dollar device.

Anonymous

#6. your mind becomes a supercomputer capable of calculating the gyrations of your car, multiplying that by the speed of the fall over the angle of descent, factoring in Newton's laws of motion and, in a split second, coming to the panicked conclusion that this is gonna hurt like hell.

Andrew Davidson

#7. Supercomputer pioneer Seymour Cray used to deliberately hire for inexperience because it brought him people who "do not usually know what's supposed to be impossible.

Eric Schmidt

#8. Helen was beautiful in the way a supercomputer was beautiful: sleek with elegant but utilitarian styling, full of top-notch technological know-how, far too expensive for most people to possess.

Maggie Stiefvater

#9. Salander was up at 5:00 the next morning and hacked into the NSF Major Research Instrumentation supercomputer at the New Jersey Institute of Technology - she needed all the mathematical skills she could muster.

David Lagercrantz

#10. He addressed the class ... in a soft, stupefied, increasingly breathless tone like an astronaut pleading with a mad supercomputer to open an airlock.

Michael Chabon

#11. The PS3 is not a game machine. We've never once called it a game machine ... With the PS3, our intentions have been to create a machine with supercomputer calculation capabilities for home entertainment.

Ken Kutaragi

#12. The cloud has become the next-generation supercomputer, and the smartphone has provided the revolution to spur its use.

Jerry Yang

#13. I take computers practically apart and put them back together. I have a supercomputer I built over the years out of different computers.

Jared Leto

#14. Thirty bucks, okay? That's pretty much my entire supercomputer fund.

Charlie Jane Anders

#15. There is supercomputer somewhere in the Nevada desert whose sole function is to count the number of times that I have said the following, because it is unquantifiable by human minds at this point, but this time it's really true: I should have stayed home.

David Rakoff

#16. You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.

Brian Tracy

#17. #3 pencils and quadrille pads.(when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer )

Seymour Cray

#18. The Connection Machine was the most powerful supercomputer in the world. It is a complex supercomputer and it will take forever to completely describe how it works.

Philip Emeagwali

#19. If you imagine the difference between an abacus and the world's fastest supercomputer, you would still not have the barest inkling of how much more powerful a quantum computer could be compared with the computers we have today.

Marcus Chown

#20. The laws of physics were the OS of some inconceivable supercomputer called reality.

Peter Watts

#21. Daniel Wolpert, of Cambridge University, is fond of pointing out that IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer is capable of beating a grand master at the game of chess, but no computer has yet been developed that can move a chess piece from one square to another as well as a 3-year-old child.

Stuart Firestein

#22. Interesting - I use a Mac to help me design the next Cray.(when he was told that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac )

Seymour Cray

#23. I used to work at a puppy nursery.

Channing Tatum

#24. Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about ourselves and our environment.

Aubrey De Grey

#25. I think anybody who's famous has to deal with their fame in their own way, and I dealt with it by making a film about a kid who's looking out into the world of celebrity obsession.

Adrian Grenier

#26. Anybody who spends time off of Louisiana's shores can recognize that these oysters are not endangered. To classify them as such risks great harm to not only fishermen who make their living collecting oysters in the Gulf, but also to Louisiana's economy in total.

Bobby Jindal

#27. I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.

Jackee Harry

#28. I am more interested in human beings than in writing, more interested in lovemaking than in writing, more interested in living than in writing. More interested in becoming a work of art than in creating one.

Anais Nin