#compute

When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#computer #david #excitement #generated #good

Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time. ↗

— Thomas Nagel

#attempts #beings #believe #computers #conscious

There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants. ↗

— Arnold Newman

#come #compose #composition #computer #impossible

The thing with computer-generated imagery is that it's an incredibly powerful tool for making better visual effects. But I believe in an absolute difference between animation and photography. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#animation #believe #better #between #computer-generated

I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#end #even #gaze #i #into

I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill. ↗

— Christopher Plummer

#computer #i #old-fashioned #quill #too

In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program. ↗

— Jon Postel

#class #computer #computer program #doing #front

My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#been #books #computer #eclectic #extremely

What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents. ↗

— Dale Dougherty

#did #documents #imagine #people #web

When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment. ↗

— Frank Press

#computers #equipment #first #started #tried