Sydney Brenner quote

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
Sydney Brenner
Sydney Brenner
Sydney Brenner
Born: Jan 13, 1927

Topics

Computer, Between, Nonexistent, Modern

Links

Cite this page: Citation

Related Authors

Alfred Russel Wallace, Arthur Eddington, Derek Harold Richard Barton, Gregory Bateson, Humphry Davy, John Sulston, Mary Leakey, Thomas Browne
My Life in Science: Sydney Brenner, A Life in Science (Lives in Science)
My Life in Science: Sydney Brenner, A Life in Science (Lives in Science)
on Amazon
Buy now

Quotes To Explore

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark. Stephen Hawking
Broken People Dark Will Down Components Computer Computers Fail Fairy Brain Heaven Stop Afraid Regard Afterlife Story Which Working
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. Emo Philips
Me Kick Once Beat Computer Match Boxing Chess
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. Stephen Hawking
Life Nature Own Human Nature Think Our Viruses Says Destructive Purely About Something Only Computer Count Computers Human Form Far Created Should Image
The human brain works as a binary computer and can only analyze the exact information-based zeros and ones (or black and white). Our heart is more like a chemical computer that uses fuzzy logic to analyze information that can't be easily defined in zeros and ones. Naveen Jain
Heart Binary Black Black And White White Analyze Our Defined Easily Fuzzy Exact Logic More Only Computer Like Chemical Brain Human Human Brain Information Uses Works
Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments. Temple Grandin
Parenting You Matter Autism Differences White Hook Bad Abnormal Neurological Computer Emotional Development Know Also Caused Brain Up Departments Different Which Disorder
I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up. Erma Bombeck
Mind Will About Only Computer Take Facts Like Overload Go Brain Lot Up Blow Human Then Human Mind Theory Many
The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows. Frank Zappa
You Design Tell Eyebrows Exact Give Computer Emotional Missing Mathematical Story
Computer science inverts the normal. In normal science, you're given a world, and your job is to find out the rules. In computer science, you give the computer the rules, and it creates the world. Alan Kay
You Science World Job Computer Science Rules Out Find Give Given Computer Normal Creates Your
To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games - nothing like saving the world. Elon Musk
Video Games Buy Me World Money Better Nothing Engineering Saving Software Kid Embarrassing Admission Could Computer Like Make Got Wanted Video Games Play
When I write, I lose time. I'm happy in a way that I have a hard time finding in real life. The intimacy between my brain and my fingers and my computer... Yet knowing that that intimacy will find an audience... It's very satisfying. It's like having the safety of being alone with the ego reward of being known. Jill Soloway
Life Alone Time Happy Ego Safety Reward Will Lose Real Life Intimacy Way Find Finding Fingers Having Computer Write Between Like Knowing Known Audience Real Brain Very Being Being Alone Hard Hard Time Satisfying

More quotes?

Try another of these similiar topics.

About
Site pages
Top Quotes
Authors
Today's birthdays
Copyright © Quotesia 2024