Top 1200 Laptop Computers Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

The reason I'm an I.B.M.-type guy today is that I really needed a laptop back in 1986, and I just couldn't wait for the Powerbook.

Every time I meet with the CEO of a big laptop company, they tell me they 'studied' my design.

My laptop helps me carry on my business functions and stay in touch with my executives when I'm abroad.

I don't really care about labels that much. I wouldn't really call our music retro. There are influences of things from the past, which there is in everything. I think we're quite a modern band, actually. We don't record with old equipment. We use computers and programmed drums. We don't use any guitar amplifiers. We're very much a modern band in the sense that we love computers and what they can do to music. I guess we're just good at a different sound.

In electronic music, staying behind your laptop for two hours is not too exciting to watch.

Nowadays you can record on your laptop with Pro Tools, which I do quite often.

The correct form factor for a laptop is obviously 12" and 2 lbs, and I don't understand why everybody gets that wrong.

On a two week road trip I know I can get by better with no underwear than no laptop.

I think computers have changed things tremendously. At one time, you tended to take the rough with the smooth. But now, because you can go back and stop and start, and have a limitless amount of tracks if anything looks remotely good, we keep it. You've got to go through the agony of sounding very human at first, and then you work on it with the aid of technology. Computers have revolutionized things in many ways allowing me to work to a standard I could have only joked about fourty years ago.

I claim that this bookless library is a dream, a hallucination of on-line addicts; network neophytes, and library-automation insiders...Instead, I suspect computers will deviously chew away at libraries from the inside. They'll eat up book budgets and require librarians that are more comfortable with computers than with children and scholars. Libraries will become adept at supplying the public with fast, low-quality information. The result won't be a library without books--it'll be a library without value.

There is no physical activity. All entertainment is happening in phone. Films can also be seen in laptop, so no one is visiting cinema halls.

We have so much inspiration. It's everywhere... So I always have a pen with me and a laptop, and I write everything down.

I keep all my work and files and kung-fu movies on my laptop because sometimes you travel, and the Internet is slow.

I take my laptop with me on the road. When I come home, I log onto AOL, go to the Web site, and answer questions.

Radio makes it appear like you can get some sounds in a laptop and be the next dude. Those careers don't really last.

You can't really sit and start singing into a laptop at an airport. Well, you could, but you'd have a lot of sound in the background.

Gutless is a strong word, do you know what I mean? It doesn't take a lot of guts to sit behind a laptop at a match and write it.

I'd sit at my kitchen table and start scanning help-wanted ads on my laptop, but then a browser tab would blink and I'd get distracted and follow a link to a long magazine article about genetically modified wine grapes. Too long, actually, so I'd add it to my reading list. Then I'd follow another link to a book review. I'd add the review to my reading list, too, then download the first chapter of the book—third in a series about vampire police. Then, help-wanted ads forgotten, I'd retreat to the living room, put my laptop on my belly, and read all day. I had a lot of free time.

I can't tell you how many times I've been writing an article only to get distracted by an email notification, either on my laptop or smartphone.

Everybody remembers numbers and computers remember numbers. People remember procedures and computers certainly remember procedures. But the other thing that's still important is that your perception as a human is affected subtly by all this stuff that you can't quite articulate. You run your life according to all this stuff that's happened to you. All of your memories affect everything you do whereas with a computer, there's adaptive software and things, but it's more literal.

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.

I'm a bit of a Luddite, really: I don't use email much, as I started drowning in it. So I said 'screw this' and dumped my laptop, though I've begun to re-engage with it.

In Uruguay, the President of the country announced that this would be his legacy, "One laptop per child."

Practically every smartphone, tablet, and laptop is fabricated in a Chinese factory, even if they are designed here.

I'm not much of a reader; I'm more of a laptop person. I would never consider travelling without it.

The modern listening experience is one of solitude, where someone just listens to music on their laptop.

No one shuts their laptop after looking at pornography and says, 'What a productive time I just spent connecting with the world!'

I can make everything I do come from my laptop. Even when I go to a big studio, all I do is to plug in my laptops. That's they way I do it.

I bought a laptop in 1999, and it was quite liberating, because I could make a lot of my own decisions.

You no more have to come to the city and access a laboratory to make a film. If you have a DSLR and a reasonably powerful laptop, you could be making films anywhere.

It's hard to play a laptop in the midst of band and have people want to buy your t-shirts and CD's.

I started accessible GPS research in 1994 and the first version became available on a laptop in 2000.

I came to New York with two bags, my guitar and my laptop. I set my stuff down and immediately ran to an audition.

It doesn't matter how many televisions and computers and pieces of stereo equipment the Chinese send to us, even if they're sending them to us only in return for some funny, little, green pieces of paper. That is a balanced trade. They got what they wanted: the green pieces of paper. We got what we wanted: the plush toys, the computers, the stereo components.

Nowadays anyone with a crap laptop and an Internet connection can sound their barbaric yawp, whatever it may be.

Very first thing in the morning, I spew some rough genius directly on to the laptop. Then I have coffee and rewrite for three hours.

I have switched on this modern laptop machine. And I have told myself that I must resist the temptation to start playing solitaire upon it.

When I see people who have to fly to a city every day with a laptop and stuff, that's why - I don't think I could manage that.

As a child I qualified for free school meals, so I know I would have been in one of the families that needed help to gain access to a laptop.

My laptop broke and because of the storm I could not get a new one. And so I've been promoting my book via iPhone.

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy.

I wake up. If I have a rehearsal, I go do that, and when I come back to the hotel, I sit down and turn on the laptop, 'cause I've got nothing to do without that!

Chess is a unique battlefield for human minds and computers - human intuition, our creativity, fantasy, our logic, versus the brute force of calculation and a very small portion of accumulated knowledge infused by other human beings. So in chess we can compare these two incompatible things and probably make projections into our future. Is there danger that the human mind will be overshadowed by the power of computers, or we can still survive?

While we bemoan the decline of literacy, computers discount words in favor of pictures and pictures in favor of video. While we fret about the decreasing cogency of public debate, computers dismiss linear argument and promote fast, shallow romps across the information landscape. While we worry about basic skills, we allow into the classroom software that will do a student's arithmetic or correct his spelling.

Like everyone else, I use my phone a lot, and being a screenwriter, my laptop is my life.

With both people and computers on the job, computer error can be more quickly tracked down and corrected by people and, conversely, human error can be more quickly corrected by computers. What it amounts to is that nothing serious can happen unless human error and computer error take place simultaneously. And that hardly ever happens.

I'm so computer illiterate, I barely know how to send an e-mail. I mean, I have a laptop and Gmail, but I don't really look at it much.

I got my MacBook in the first year at university, and that's really when I stopped playing live instruments and started geeking out on my laptop.

Every computer divides itself into its hardware and its software, the machine host to its algorithm, the human being to his mind. It is hardly surprising that men and women have done what computers now do long before computers could do anything at all. The dissociation between mind and matter in men and machines is very striking; it suggests that almost any stable and reliable organization of material objects can execute an algorithm and so come to command some form of intelligence.

Truth be told, I'm much more comfortable in a pair of hiking boots or with a rack of climbing gear than in front of a laptop.

We writers dream of a future where actors are mostly computer generated and their performances can be adjusted, by us, on a laptop, alone.

Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book.

I've pretty much stopped using a laptop because I'm not line-editing a lot of things anymore.

I don't spend too much time on my phone, laptop or television. However, I do occasionally watch documentaries and shows on streaming platforms.

There's a confusion sometimes with the laptop being the current tools and where electronic music initially comes from.

Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.

I almost never these days sit down with a CD or my laptop and just listen to a piece with a score. I probably would do that while I'm exercising.

You can sit in a room and create anything you want on a laptop. That's why the real con men are gone.

I am so appalled by the whole social media thing. I don't get it; it doesn't appeal to me. Neither does a computer or working on a laptop.