“I'm so hard on myself. I play these sketches in my computer for friends and they say 'Gee whiz, the vocal's beautiful.' I hear, 'It needs to be better.'” NeedsHardPlayBeautifulComputerVocal Author:Steve Perry
“We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.” BeautifulJoyComputerIntellectualLosingTrackComputer ScienceReviveVastness Author:Jaron Lanier
“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.” IfsThinkingKnowsProblemBeautifulPoliticsBeautyCreativityEconomyDesignComputerSolutionsProgramSolveFinishedArchitectureMathematicalLiberalismProgrammingConcentrationSoftwareEngineeringProblem SolvingSpectacularProgrammersComputer ProgrammingComputer ScienceProgramming LanguagesComputer LanguageMath And ScienceProblems And SolutionsSolution To A ProblemBeing BeautifulNieceSoftware DesignComputer ProgrammersArchitecture And DesignGreat ScienceSoftware DevelopmentScience PhysicsArchitecture DesignSolved ProblemsSimplicity In DesignTruth And BeautyBeautiful ArtProduct DesignArchitecture And ArtMath ProblemsUrban DesignMathematical ProblemsMathematical BeautyDesign WorkEngineering InspirationalBeauty ProductsLife And BeautyBeautiful DesignHidden Beauty Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.... I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.... It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.” WayYearsFirstsCountryBeautifulFoundInspiringClassDesignCollegeTenComputerDecidedHistoricalPracticalsSubtleFascinatingCaptureApplicationInstructionReedsMacintoshStanford UniversityCalligraphyMacintosh Computers Author:Steve Jobs
“A movie I must have seen 10 times is 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.' It's an old movie, but still such a beautiful message. If I had only one film I could take on my computer on a desert island, I would take 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.'” IfsStillsBeautifulFilmComputerMessagesDesertIslandsSeagullOld MovieJonathan Livingston SeagullLivingston Seagull Author:Bertrand Piccard
“We should treat computers as fancy telephones, whose purpose is to connect people.... As long as we remember that we ourselves are the source of our value, our creativity, our sense of reality, then all of our work with computers will be worthwhile and beautiful.” PeopleShouldLongRealityBeautifulRememberPurposeValuesCreativitySourceComputerTreatsFancyWorthwhileTelephones Author:Jaron Lanier
“It is boring to haunt a writer, and even more so to haunt a celebrity. I would haunt a literary figure! Possibly some superhero, maybe even James Bond. Constant adventures, fights, beautiful women--much more interesting that watching a writer who taps on computer all day long, or a celebrity posing in front of cameras.” LongBeautifulFightingInterestingFrontsFiguresAdventureComputerCamerasConstantBoringSuperheroBeautiful WomenPosing Author:Sergei Lukyanenko
“[Emacs] is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful.” BeautifulLanguageWrittenComputerComputer LanguageLisp Author:Neal Stephenson
“I'd support life extension by whatever means, from cryonic suspension to cyborgism to coding ourselves into our computers or whatever. There is nothing noble or beautiful or dignified about dying. Like poverty, it is ugly, nasty, brutal and primitive.” MeanBeautifulPovertySupportDyingComputerUglyNoblePrimitiveBrutalNastyExtensionsSuspension Author:Robert Anton Wilson
“The computer needs...even by accident, offers incredible beautiful things that are very seductive. And if you forget about, or if you don't have an idea to begin with, it is very easy to be seduced and that is not a good use of the computer.” IfsNeedsIdeasUseBeautifulEasyForgetOffersComputerIncrediblesAccidentsBeautiful ThingsSeductive Author:Massimo Vignelli