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“My monetary studies have led me to the conclusion that central banks could profitably be replaced by computers geared to provide a steady rate of growth in the quantity of money. Fortunately for me personally, and for a select group of fellow economists, that conclusion has had no practical impact… else there would have been no Central Bank of Sweden to have established the award [Nobel Prize] I am honoured to receive.”

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Author:Milton Friedman

“If you offer people a decent service, if you give them you know Internet access, if their phones are not cut off on the trains, you know if you have plugs where they can plug in their computers, and if you have a smiling, cheerful staff; and if you can travel really quickly, then you can make a success out of the rail business.”

People Ifs Knows Giving Cutting Internet Offers Computer Train Phones Access Decent Staff Cheerful Rail Plugs Internet Access

Author:Richard Branson

“You can create art and beauty with a computer.”

Art Computer

Author:Steven Levy

“There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(...); the other was the fact that the century would end.”

Two Ends Facts Century Particular Industry Internet Computer Two Things

Author:Douglas Adams

“What's happened with computer technology is perfectly timed for someone with my set of skills. I tell stories with pictures. What I love about CGI is that if I can think it, it can be put on the screen.”

Ifs Thinking I Can Stories Technology Happened Skills Computer Screens Computer Technology Cgi

Author:Frank Miller

“Now, the reason that we think computer science is about computers is pretty much the same reason that the Egyptians thought geometry was about surveying instruments. And that is, when some field is just getting started and you don't really understand it very well, it's very easy to confuse the essence of what you're doing with the tools that you use.”

Thinking Wells Reason Use Easy Fields Computer Tools Essence Instruments Geometry Computer Science Getting Started

Author:Hal Abelson

“The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.”

Drug Computer

Author:Terence McKenna

“I would still give my left ball to write anything as good as OK Computer.”

Giving Writing Stills Left Computer Balls

Author:Chris Martin

“Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way it encounters the world.”

World Way Individual Brain Development Computer Encounters Psychologist Cognitive

Author:Gerald Edelman

“In our interconnected world, novel technology could empower just one fanatic, or some weirdo with a mindset of those who now design computer viruses, to trigger some kind of disaster. Indeed, catastrophe could arise simply from technical misadventure - error rather than terror.”

“Some claim that computers will, by 2050, achieve human capabilities. Of course, in some respects they already have.”

Humans Courses Achieve Computer Claims Capability

Author:Martin Rees

“Although I loved working on technology - I've always been a computer geek at heart - my professors encouraged me to get a real-world job working with customers.”

World Heart Real Jobs Technology Computer Customers Professors Real World Geek

Author:Marc Benioff

“People in the computer industry use the term 'user,' which to them means 'idiot.'”

People Mean Use Term Industry Computer Idiot Users

Author:Dave Barry

“By the time we get to the 2040s, we'll be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold. That will be a profound change that's singular in nature. Computers are going to keep getting smaller and smaller. Ultimately, they will go inside our bodies and brains and make us healthier, make us smarter.”

Humans Body Able Brain Computer Profound Smarter Human Intelligence

Author:Ray Kurzweil

“The iPad - is that a phone or a computer? If I put it on my wall is it a TV?”

Ifs Tvs Wall Computer Phones Ipads

Author:Chad Hurley

“Why is computer science a good field for women? For one thing, thats where the jobs are, and for another, the pay is better than for many jobs, and finally, its easier to combine career and family.”

Jobs Pay Careers One Thing Fields Easier Computer Computer Science

Author:Madeleine M. Kunin

“I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think Im crazy, but I still use my Mac-Classic even though we have a state-of-the-art PC. There are just less distractions with the simpler machine.”

People Thinking Writing Art Stills States Use Morning Crazy Computer Machines Classic Distraction Macs

Author:Wendelin Van Draanen

“I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized.”

Bigs Path Industry Becoming Computer Bright Future Biotechnology Von Neumann

Book:Dreams of Earth and Sky

Source: Dreams of Earth and Sky

“I write on a computer, on a laptop or whatever.”

Writing Computer Laptops

Author:Mark Boal

“Any excuse to get away from the computer screen is welcome.”

Computer Excuse Screens Welcome Get Away Computer Screen

Author:Stefan Sagmeister

“My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.”

Book Light Quiet Computer Machines Defined Telephones Fax Fax Machines Ephemera Workspace

Author:Maira Kalman

“Until Systers came into existence, the notion of a global community of women in computer science did not exist.”

Community Existence Computer Notion Computer Science Global Community

Author:Anita Borg

“I never took a computer science course in college, because then it was a thing you just learned on your own.”

Courses College Computer Computer Science

Author:Mitchel Resnick

“With Scratch, we want to let kids to be the creators. We want them to create interesting, dynamic things on the computer.”

Want Kids Interesting Computer Creator Scratches

Author:Mitchel Resnick

“I was with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq, really in the middle of nowhere, about 80 miles south of Baghdad. And it was almost midnight, and I got a computer message from the home office of the Washington Post asking me to call them. I did call them and was told that I'd won the Pulitzer Prize.”

Home Middle Office Computer Messages Asking South Iraq Miles Posts Prize Division Midnight Baghdad Middle Of Nowhere Airborne Home Office

Author:Rick Atkinson

“I graduated from high school in 1963. There were no computers, cell phones, Internet, credit cards, cassette tapes or cable TV.”

School Tvs Internet Computer High School Phones Credit Cards Cells Tape Cables Cell Phone Credit Card Cassettes Cable Tv Cassette Tapes

Author:Jeffrey Gitomer

“That's the way I learned photography: You make your picture in the camera. Now, so much is made in the computer. ... I'm not anti-digital, I just think, for me, film works better.”

Thinking Way Made Film Computer Photography Cameras Digital

Author:Mary Ellen Mark

“I was inspired by the Hole in the Wall project, where a computer with an internet connection was put in a Delhi slum. When the slum was revisited after a month, the children of that slum had learned how to use the worldwide web.”

Children Use Wall Months Internet Computer Projects Connections Inspired Holes Slums Delhi Internet Connection

Author:Sugata Mitra

“Im pretty adept with computers and Photoshop for my blog, and I found my style with a conversational voice and an image-ready column.”

Found Voice Style Ready Computer Blogs Columns Adept Photoshop

Author:Robert Mankoff

“Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.”

Doe Art Running Kids Creativity Design Creation Genius Dad Computer Projects Crafts Programming Categories Mum Computer Programming Manuscripts Hairdresser Arts And Crafts

Author:Tabatha Coffey

“Cloud computing offers individuals access to data and applications from nearly any point of access to the Internet, offers businesses a whole new way to cut costs for technical infrastructure, and offers big computer companies a potentially giant market for hardware and services.”

Way Whole Bigs Individual Company Cutting Internet Cost Offers Computer Clouds Access Data Giants Application New Ways Infrastructure Computing Hardware Cloud Computing

Author:Jamais Cascio

“If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity.”

Ifs Looks Self Tree Computer Method Productions Architecture Complexity Branches Repetition Leafs Variation Similarity Tree Branches

Author:Charles Jencks

“If a student takes a Stanford computer class and a Princeton business class, it shows they are motivated and have skills. We know it has helped employees get better jobs.”

Ifs Knows Shows Jobs Class Students Skills Computer Get Better Employee Motivated Better Jobs Stanford Princeton

Author:Daphne Koller

“People thought I was very pro-computer. I was on the cover of Wired magazine. [Then things began to change. In the early 80s,] we met this technology and became smitten like young lovers. But today our attachment is unhealthy.”

People Today Young Technology Like You Lovers Mets Computer Magazines Attachment 80s Unhealthy Young Love Smitten

Author:Sherry Turkle

“The most used program in computers and education is PowerPoint. What are you learning about the nature of the medium by knowing how do to a great PowerPoint presentation? Nothing. It certainly doesnt teach you how to think critically about living in a culture of simulation.”

Thinking Used Culture Teach Knowing Computer Program Mediums Presentation Great Power Simulation Powerpoint

Author:Sherry Turkle

“I'm probably the worst at games. I don't really like computer games either. And when I lose, I won't go again but just say I don't want to play anymore.”

Want Play Games Loses Worst Computer Computer Games

Author:Yoseob

“I graduated from college with a 3.92 GPA with a degree in computer programming and a BFA in fine arts and animation. My first job was painting a mural in the Grimaldis in Queens.”

Firsts Art Jobs College Painting Fine Degrees Computer Queens Programming Animation Fine Arts Computer Programming Mural Gpa

Author:JWoww

“Google has placed its faith in data, while Apple worships the power of design. This dichotomy made the two companies complementary. Apple would ship the phones and computers, while Google would provide Maps, Search, YouTube, and other web tools that made the devices more useful.”

Made Two Company Design Computer Worship Tools Phones Ships Data Apples Maps Devices Google Youtube Dichotomy Complementary Google Maps

Author:Ben Parr

“Nanoengineering is learning how to make devices as small as 10 to 100 atoms in width. Much of the work is going on in the electronics industry, where there is great demand to pack more components onto computer chips.”

Industry Demand Computer Devices Atoms Packs Chips Components Electronics Width

Author:George M. Whitesides

“Now scarcely a week goes by without a news story about the cops swooping down on some adolescent prowler who is as skilled at breaking into computer systems as defense contractors are at breaking into the Federal budget.”

Stories Week Modern Computer News Defense Budgets Cop Modern Life Contractor News Stories Computer Systems

Author:Russell Baker

“Sending grown-ups up the wall is one of the things adolescence is all about. A few years ago it was done with rock 'n' roll music. Now at least they can do it quietly with a home computer.”

Years Done Home Can Do Modern Rocks Wall Computer Years Ago Rock N Roll Adolescence Modern Life Rock N Roll Music

Author:Russell Baker

“Despite the fact that computer speeds are measured in nanoseconds and picoseconds - one billionth and one trillionth of a second, respectively - the smallest interval of time known to man is that which occurs in Manhattan between the traffic signal turning green and the taxi driver behind you blowing his horn.”

Men Facts Home Behinds Known Travel Computer Green Speed Despite Drivers Smallest Traffic Signals Horns Manhattan Behind You Taxi Intervals

Author:Johnny Carson

“I remain fearless of airplanes after 9/11. But during a trip to Los Angeles on a Boeing 767, I couldn't keep my mind from drifting: What's the largest piece of this airplane that could crash into the World Trade Center, explode out the other side, and survive intact? The landing gear? My computer battery? My belt buckle? My wedding ring?”

“Computer games tend to be boys' games, warlike games with more violence. We have not spent enough time thinking through how to encourage more girls to be involved in computing before coming to college so they can see a possible career in information technology.”

Thinking Enough Girl Games Boys Careers Technology Violence Information College Involved Computer Enough Time Information Technology Computing Computer Games

Author:Freeman A. Hrabowski III

“In life sciences, we find a reasonable balance between men and women. In engineering and computer science, we have a major problem. A very small percentage of women will be in computer science.”

Men Problem Balance Computer Majors Men And Women Reasonable Engineering Percentages Computer Science Major Problems

Author:Freeman A. Hrabowski III

“Sometimes you just have to trust the kids. The first glimpse of Wheelock Family Theatre's Shrek is a surprise. Instead of the round, green, smoothly computer-animated ogre of the movie, this Shrek is tall and hairy, with a lumpy green headpiece and mossy dreads. But as played by Christopher Chew in Wheelock's “Shrek the Musical,” this ogre was a hit with the children. they laughed and cheered and clapped in all the right places.”

Firsts Children Sometimes Kids Computer Green Surprise Rounds Musical Theatre Tall Laughed Dread Glimpse Right Place Animated

Author:Joel Brown

“We live in a cluttered culture, a culture of information in which even our computers can't tell us what's worth knowing and what is merely cultural scrap. In such a society, we don't have the experience of contemplative space, of the time or mood to engage a book of poetry or even read a novel. Who can achieve the unconscious-conscious state of the reader when everything is stimulation, everything is movement and information?”

Book States Culture Space Novel Knowing Achieve Information Movement Reader Computer Conscious Mood Unconscious Scrap Contemplative Stimulation

Author:T.C. Boyle

“I still find it absurdly difficult to concentrate on a novel if there's a phone or computer to hand; I have taken to locking them outside the room like noisy pets.”

Ifs Stills Hands Difficult Rooms Novel Taken Computer Phones Pet Noisy

Author:David Nicholls

“I usually write on a computer - unless I get stuck, at which point I switch to write by hand. I think that's common among writers if they get cornered on something.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Hands Common Computer Stuck Cornered

Author:David Nicholls

“The present Luddism over genetic engineering may die a natural death as the computer-illiterate generation is superseded.... I fear that, if the green movement's high-amplitude warnings over GMOs turn out to be empty, people will be dangerously disinclined to listen to other and more serious warnings.”

Source: A Devil's Chaplain: Selected Writings

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