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Quotes About Control

We decentralise permissions over the use of our communications.
~ Edward Snowden
The future of cinema and communications is all about collaboration and the decentralized control of storytelling. We're all part of the story; we can all contribute and participate.
~ Adrian Grenier
Sometimes it seems that the fate of the world is decided entirely in the ether of electronic communications and corporate backroom deals.
~ Rebecca Solnit
The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.
~ Norman Foster
People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.
~ Marc Andreessen
Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them.
~ Leonard Nimoy
I visited a scientist who had a helmet with magnetic fields controlled by computer sequences that could profoundly affect your mood and your perceptions.
~ Douglas Trumbull
The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.
~ James Dyson
The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.
~ Vinton Cerf
Institutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own program.
~ Mary Douglas
In a world without fences, who needs Gates?
~ Scott McNealy
The computer is here to stay, therefore it must be kept in its proper place as a tool and a slave, or we will become sorcerer's apprentices, with data data everywhere and not a thought to think.
~ Jesse Shera
Almost every song on OK Computer revolves around how I am afraid computers get up at night and attempt to choke me with their wires.*doesn't laugh*
~ Thom Yorke
If computers take over, it will serve us right.
~ Alistair Cooke
My kids are in front of the computer 247 despite having all the parental control. There is no way to stop the flow of information. The flow of information is too fast and too much.
~ Kajol
Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our DNA through altering our genetic makeup, computer-genera ted robots will take over our world.
~ Stephen Hawking
In fact when I first got my Apple II the first thing I did was turn it on and off, on and off, just because I had the power to do so, which I'd never had on a computer before
~ Andy Hertzfeld
The computers are in control. We just live in their world.
~ Danny Hillis
Man should rule with computers, not vice versa.
~ Leonard J. V. Compagno
Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.
~ Tom Landry
Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.
~ Diane Arbus
The essence of successful discipline is not technique; rather, it is self-confidence.
~ John Rosemond
Do I shout, belittle or swear? No. I have sufficient confidence within myself to control my environment just by my presence, just by working hard and leading from the front.
~ Marco Pierre White
I think you have to feel comfortable with your car. You have to go into Turn 1, every lap, with confidence. You have to be sure of yourself and your equipment.
~ Danica Patrick