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When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer is when I actually start thinking about lines. That's the workhorse part. At that point, I'm being more mathematical about putting the poem on the page and less intuitive about the rhythm of the syntax.

I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook.

I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book.

Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

I work on my novels wherever I have a PC, and I have four or five places around the world where I do have a PC. These days you can just slip a little flash drive into your top pocket, fly for 12 hours, come to another place, plug it into a computer and you are away again.

Animation translates well to a small screen. When you look at Walt Disney or Chuck Jones - you know, Bugs Bunny - there really isn't any difference if you watch on a very big screen or a computer screen.

I hate the computer. I hate their spell-check. I won't ever do e-mail.

Language is too complex for a computer to understand. It's not going to be able to make sense of what people are saying en masse. We need a new type of discipline that puts together computer scientists and social scientists, who can add context to the situation.

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

I interact with my fans mostly through Twitter, and I like to do livestreams about every two weeks, where I say, 'Ask me anything!' and I just sit there with my computer for 15 minutes, taking a break from work, and answering their questions.

The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand, and then I type them up on my old electric. I have resisted getting a computer because I distrust the whole PC thing. I don't think a great book has yet been written on computer.

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

I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer.

Most of the computer compromises that we hear about use a technique called spear phishing, which allows an attacker access to a key person's workstation. It's extremely difficult to defend against.

I've never really been anywhere, and now I get to go everywhere. I just have to make sure there's enough memory on my computer to hold all my pictures.

The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.

In a movie, it's often important to have aliens whose gestures and facial expressions can be 'read' by humans. And in the days before sophisticated computer animation, most extraterrestrial bit players were guys in rubber suits. Such practical considerations forced Hollywood's hand when it came to aliens - they look like us for good reasons.

Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?

The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids.

It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.

I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.

It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was - and is - respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills.

I started with CB radio, ham radio, and eventually went into computers. And I was just fascinated with it. And back then, when I was in school, computer hacking was encouraged. It was an encouraged activity. In fact, I remember one of the projects my teacher gave me was writing a log-in simulator.

It feels as if ever since the iPhone was released, the Macintosh computer has become just another leverage point in this other operating system's marketing plan.

Protecting yourself is very challenging in the hostile environment of the Internet. Imagine a global environment where an unscrupulous person from the other side of the planet can probe your computer for weaknesses and exploit them to gain access to your most sensitive secrets.

The computer brings out the worst in some people.

The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of users; every time they get more powerful, old customers upgrade.

Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.

I get hired to hack into computers now and sometimes it's actually easier than it was years ago.

Over 55% of all shots using animals in 'The Hobbit' are in fact computer generated; this includes horses, ponies, rabbits, hedgehogs, birds, deer, elk, mice, wild boars and wolves.

The idea of an animated film is you always kind of get a little bit daunted by it as a filmmaker because it feels like a lot of your communication is going to be with computer artists, and you're going to have to kind of channel the movie through extra pairs of hands.

We want to make it so that anyone, anywhere - a child growing up in rural India who never had a computer - can go to a store, get a phone, get online, and get access to all of the same things that you and I appreciate about the Internet.

Here's where I luck out: I'm really computer illiterate.

If you can't hear me, it's because I'm in parentheses.

Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others.

When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other people, and my writing sucked. Now I have a laptop; I can do the most tedious part of my job in a public place.

My ideal role would be a baddie in a James Bond film. I think the wheelchair and the computer voice would fit the part.

Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer.

More questionably, the book does not touch upon the computer language Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), despite it's centrality for doing advanced work in Access.

My background is pretty evenly split between journalism, databases and computer programming, and this was an opportunity to combine all three. My goal for the project was to create a useful resource for Chicagoans.

My abilities on the computer are limited pretty much to iTunes and YouTube. I check my email as much as anybody, but I'm more old-fashioned in a certain sense.

One of the intriguing aspects here, and it could be a first, is the connection to the computer world,

One thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse

One of the great benefits of having the Directory available as an online resource is the ability to quickly find exactly the resources you need for a client with just a few taps on the keyboard and a click or two of a computer mouse. We have learned that current Internet search engines are slow and ineffective in finding the resources our clients are searching for, and when an adult or senior client has an urgent issue that needs to be addressed immediately, those are the times when every second counts. These are the values our Web-based Directory delivers for industry professionals: speed and accuracy.

On my walks, that's when the good ideas come. The kind of hard, gritty work is when you're sitting at the computer and it's kind of intense and you're kind of in super control of it - the walks are when you let go. That's when the really big breakthroughs come in, and it's very strange.

On the (clock's) computer it counts down to 100s of a second, which doesn't show on the clock. So you won't get that buzzer until that computer hits 0:00. That's why there is a delay. We did discuss it before the match that we would go with the buzzer and not the time on the clock.

NCAR is now embarking on a focused series of computer experiments capable of resolving thunderstorms and the details of tropical cyclones, ... The results will help explain the observed intensity changes and extend them to realistic climate change scenarios.

I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash.

I was sitting at the computer and my wife Pat was watching TV in the living room when I heard the rapid fire of what sounded like a semi-automatic weapon. At first I thought it might be someone shooting at something in the woods, but after as many as 15 or 16 shots rang out I knew it was something else.

New computer technology to prevent auto theft is being added to more and more new vehicle keys each year. However, motorists who lose these new high-tech car keys often face delays, inconvenience and significantly more expense in replacing keys, because locksmiths and other car repair facilities cannot obtain the information they need from car manufacturers in order to reproduce electronic keys.

When I left Apple, it had $2 billion of cash. It was the most profitable computer company in the world - not just personal computers - and Apple was the number one selling computer.

Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft, and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor

Of course the computer animators take a lot of the credit for what's going on, but with Peter's help I really fleshed out the character,

One of my sons - James - just had his computer crash and it's a mess. He's an aerospace engineer. But the church library and cataloguing is all being updated to computers by the woman who is our new librarian, Jani Wagner, so I won't worry.

One of the things Sober does is it turns your computer into a spam zombie.

One that went out in January was fishing for personal financial information. One earlier this month spread a computer virus.

One important finding is the emphasis on business skills. There has always been a need for that, but now employers want IT workers to have industry knowledge and business skills from the start. Computer science is very technical by design, but two of the more popular areas in demand are systems analysis and systems design, both of which are customer-facing positions that require user interaction and communications skills.

No one should install any software without telling the computer user before doing it. Burying it in a disclosure document that is not read by 99.9 percent of users is not an excuse.

My dad wasn't thrilled at my wanting to act. He even offered to pay for a computer course if I'd change my mind.

My favorite computer of all time? The Apple II that got me started, of course.

My father, an entrepreneur but hardly a technologist, was looking to buy a computer to 'automate' our family business. In 1981, he characteristically dove head first into computing and bought an Osborne I.

Post-human intelligence will develop hypercomputers with the processing power to simulate living things - even entire worlds. Perhaps advanced beings could use hypercomputers to surpass the best 'special effects' in movies or computer games so vastly that they could simulate a world, fully, as complex as the one we perceive ourselves to be in.

People who buy medicines marketed via spam messages are not only encouraging the spammers to send more of their nuisance emails, but are also potentially putting their lives at risk. Daniel Lin is unlikely to be sending any more spam, but there are plenty of other spammers out there prepared to make a quick buck with their unwanted marketing messages. All computer users should defend their email addresses with up-to-date anti-spam software, and remember to never buy goods marketed via spam.

Now you can bank from your computer at home or your laptop. What we keep coming back to is that our customers want to see a real person when they walk into a branch.

Obviously, the computer is not for everybody, and we're not relying on it exclusively. But ultimately, this stuff will work, and it will benefit a lot of people.

Now, when someone calls and says, 'You haven't picked up my trash,' we can get on the computer and find out how long it took us to pick up the trash after they called,

People will be able to get on their computer while they are still at work and get a good sense of what will be on broadcast that night or what ABC is working on that day.

Rick Rashid is one of the world's great research leaders. He built Microsoft Research from the ground up to its current status as one of the top computer science research laboratories. Microsoft Research couldn't be in better hands.

Rick talks through the use of a computer generator, but his first words to me, 'I can,' highlight his ability to be normal and to fit in with a population that is disabled but still a part of humanity. The film shows clearly that he can overcome his disability if he can do all of this.

Right now, it takes a large company employing hundreds of really smart people to support Internet services. Our goal with this center is to develop technology that eliminates the need for such a large organization, opening up innovation opportunities for small groups or even individual entrepreneurs. We can help do this by applying statistical machine learning - the same technology used successfully in the recent autonomous vehicle grand challenge - to the development of computer systems.

My friend sent me the song, which I hadn't heard before, ... It faded in toward the middle, and I thought the computer file was broken. But we did research and found out that a tape fragment is all that exists of the song.

My interest is home computer software. I'm not in it because it is booming; I think the key is that the programs must tell you how to use them.

I have found in my years of being in business that we are all a part of a computer chip somewhere and you just need to know what button to punch and your entire life flashes before your eyes.

I don't do guilt, but if I were to squint in that direction, it's probably enjoying simple computer games like Zuma. But I regard such things as part of my hand-eye coordination workout.

I don't keep a mobile, I am not computer savvy; I am not on any website. I live like a cave man.

I don't know about you, but the first thing I do when I'm supposed to write something, ... is to do everything else. If my house is tidy, it generally means I should be writing--and I'm not. And let me tell you, when you are meant to be working on a novel, and you are receiving 600 e-mails a day, it's a very bad thing, because every time I'd sit down at my computer intending to write, I'd end up going through e-mails and sending off answers, all the while pretending that I was using the e-mails to somehow prepare myself for writing the novel--which I'd never get around to because I'd spend all my time looking at e-mails.

I don't even have a computer in my office. If I had e-mail, I'd never take the time to read research or absorb information. I want to think about what I'm doing, and that takes time.

If they already have a computer system running Windows 95, there's not a lot of reason for them to go out and buy Windows 98. In fact, we expect the majority of Windows 98 upgrade sales to go to PC enthusiasts.

I graduated from college with a 3.92 GPA with a degree in computer programming and a BFA in fine arts and animation. My first job was painting a mural in the Grimaldi's in Queens.

Looks like kindergarten cryptography to me. It will keep your kid sister out, but it won't keep the police out. But what do you expect from someone who is computer illiterate?

The place to control what is displayed on a home computer screen is in the home. It's up to parents -- not the government -- to control what kids see online.

We want to make sure the FCC doesn't become the Federal Computer Commission,

When you cut through some of the issues associated with Asia, the underlying demand for personal computer technology is still quite healthy.

Men who reported being physically active were much less likely to have ED compared to men who reported no daily physical activity. Similarly, men who reported being sedentary - measured by hours of daily television viewing and video and computer use - were much more likely to have ED, even after accounting for other risk factors.

since the very first version was shipped to computer manufacturers in July of 1995.

Since we saw the first Sober worm back in October 2003, its author has tried to improve upon tried-and-tested tricks to dupe computer users into launching infected attachments. This latest worm purports to be a warning from CIA and FBI agents, accusing recipients of visiting illegal websites. Mocking the feds is a sure-fire way of goading the authorities, and you can't help but wonder whether the author is desperate to be caught.

She has offered numerous computer classes to the librarians.

Most slot players don't realize the machines are all hooked to a network computer in some manner. We've been very successful in placing the back-end systems.

Most users that stumble across the cloaked files with a RKR scan will cripple their computer if they attempt the obvious step of deleting the cloaked files,

When I was at Oracle, we watched Computer Associates buy all those mainframe software companies and milk them for their license revenue. I never thought that's what Oracle would be doing one day, and yet, here it is,

Scott's background and extensive knowledge of all forms of computer crime and abuse will be a great addition to our Midwest team. He is a highly- regarded member of the local business and forensic communities.

Many people sit in front of a computer all day while at the office. When they go to work out, they are trying to get away from that environment,

Software is now so complex - requiring so many gazillions of tiny files all over your computer - that most consumers don't want to bother to know what's really going on.

So, for all the conspiracy theories out there, ... ... that's not what this is about. It's a computer bug that people deal with everyday. It's just that ours was in front of millions of people.

So, for all the conspiracy theories out there, ... ... that's not what this is about. It's a computer bug that people deal with everyday. It's just that ours was in front of millions of people.

should send a message to would-be computer hackers all over the world that the United Sates will treat computer intrusions as serious crimes.

Section 230 of the Communication Decency Act of 1996 made clear that interactive computer services could not be held liable as publishers or speakers of content posted by third parties. It also provides that no cause of action may be brought, and no liability may be imposed under any state or local law that is inconsistent with the section. And what he proposes is a state law that is inconsistent with that section.

Second-quarter sales results were significantly impacted by the greater- than-expected slowdown in the global personal computer market.

Search folks don't understand editorial. I'm not afraid of editorial costs, just like machine-search folks are not afraid of computer servers.

Old Iron' is the mechanical system that farmers have used for decades. But agriculture Tuesday relies heavily on computer technology. Computers on tractors make them more productive, more efficient. Now we have a new challenge. Is it possible to make them more intelligent?