“Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.” MenInspirationalStillsTechnologyComputerExtraordinaryPresidentialInformation TechnologyPresidents DayComputer TechnologyFunny Computer Author:John F. Kennedy
“All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.” MenLittlesSpeakTechnologyInspireComputerInventionAirplaneLazinessVolumeTechnologicalAutomobileModern TechnologyComputer TechnologyGreat Technology Author:Mark Kennedy
“China is stealing our intellectual property, our patents, our designs, our technology, hacking into our computers, counterfeiting our goods.” TechnologyDesignComputerIntellectualPropertyChinaStealingGoodsPatentsHackingIntellectual Property Author:Mitt Romney
“If somebody is working on a new medicine, computer science helps us model those things. We have a whole group here in Seattle called the Institute for Disease Modelling that is a mix of computer science and math-type people, and the progress we're making in polio or plans for malaria or really driven by their deep insights.” PeopleIfsWholeHelpingProgressPlansGroupsTypeDiseaseComputerModelsMedicineInsightMathDrivenInstituteComputer ScienceSeattleMalariaModellingPolio Author:Bill Gates
“The most important work I got a chance to be involved in, no matter what I do, is the personal computer... I even knew not to get married until later because I was so obsessed with it. That's my life's work.” ImportantMatterChanceInvolvedComputerMarriedNo Matter WhatObsessedImportant WorkPersonal Computers Author:Bill Gates
“In the future, every human will have a digital model of their body stored in computers. When someone needs a new shoe or a new bra or a new prosthesis or a new brace, s/he'll just fabricate it from the digital model themselves and then the device or article will be delivered to the home without even having to go to a retail store. The shoe, the bra, the brace, it'll be the person's apparel, the person's device, no one else's. It'll be exquisitely comfortable and functional. So this whole notion today where we have sizing to fit across humans is just utterly absurd.” NeedsHumansPersonsWholeHomeBodyTodayFitComfortableComputerModelsNotionShoesStoresAbsurdDigitalDevicesArticlesRetailBrasBracesApparelHuman WillFabricateNew Shoes Author:Hugh Herr
“Our brains are great at knowing what to forget. We actually have to teach computers to do the same.” ForgetBrainTeachKnowingComputer Author:Kevin Maney
“Artificial intelligence uses a complex set of rules - algorithms - to get to a conclusion. A computer has to calculate its way through all those rules, and that takes a lot of processing. So AI works best when a small computer is using it on a small problem - your car's anti-lock brakes are based on AI. Or you need to use a giant computer on a big problem - like IBM using a room-size machine to compete against humans on Jeopardy in 2011.” WayNeedsHumansUseProblemBigsRoomsCarComputerMachinesComplexesSizeConclusionGiantsArtificial IntelligenceArtificialLocksBig ProblemsProcessingAlgorithmsBrakeJeopardyIbmSmall Problems Author:Kevin Maney
“Eventually, we need to have computers that work differently from the way they do today and have for the past 60-plus years. We're capturing and generating increasingly massive amounts of data, but we can't make computers that keep up with it. One of the most promising solutions is to make computers that work more the way brains work.” WayNeedsYearsTodayPastBrainAmountComputerSolutionsDataMassivePlus Author:Kevin Maney
“We have a culture that is indirect in the extreme, where by the time you're five years old, you've watched tons of television, and have been subjected to what I call "the age of interruption," where everything is interrupted every minute. We have constant input from TV, computers, fax machines, telephones, etc. It's very hard for a modern American to have two hours of uninterrupted time. I know how it is because I insist on several hours of uninterrupted time each day, and I know how ruthless I have to be to get it.” KnowsYearsHas BeensTwoHardAgeCultureHoursKnow HowFiveModernMinutesTelevisionTvsComputerMachinesConstantExtremesFive YearsEach DayEtcTelephonesRuthlessInterruptedInputInterruptionsOld YouFive Year OldsIndirectFaxFax Machines Author:Michael Ventura
“Steve Jobs was one of the first people to understand that the computer wasn't just a tool, but that it could be an extension of ourselves, and he positioned Apple that way. The iPod was this revolutionary device with the idea of 1,000 songs in your pocket, and then that machine represents who you are.” PeopleWayFirstsIdeasJobsSongComputerToolsMachinesWho You AreRevolutionaryApplesPocketsDevicesExtensionsIpods Author:Alex Gibney
“My background, I really am a computer hacker. I've studied computer science, I work in computer security. I'm not an actively a hacker, I'm an executive but I understand the mindset of changing a system to get the outcome that you want. It turns out to make the coffee, the problem is actually how the beans get turn into green coffee. That's where most of the problems happen.” WantProblemHappensTurnsSecurityComputerGreenMindsetCoffeeBackgroundsOutcomesExecutivesBeansComputer ScienceHackersComputer Security Author:Dave Asprey
“I don't really sit at the computer from scratch. I prefer to get my ideas in my fingers and I write longhand first.” WritingFirstsIdeasComputerFingersScratches Author:Mary Ann Hoberman
“When I studied computer science at Duke University in the first half of the 1980s, I had professors who treated women differently than men. I kind of got used to it. At Microsoft, I had to use my elbows and make sure I spoke up at the table, but it was an incredibly meritocratic place. Outside, in the industry, I would feel the sexism. I'd walk into a room and until I proved my worth, everyone would assume that the guy presenting with me had credibility and I didn't.” MenFeelsFirstsKindUseUsedGuyWalksRoomsHalfIndustryComputerTablesAssumingUniversityTreatedSpokesSexismProfessorsCredibilityMicrosoftPresentingComputer ScienceDukesElbowsDuke University Author:Melinda Gates
“I think the posture of confidence can serve you well. I'm not sure what's to be gained by sitting at your computer and beating yourself up.” ThinkingWellsComputerSittingNot SurePostureBeating YourselfBeating Yourself Up Author:Maggie Shipstead
“The architect holds much knowledge, but is not a specialist. Especially with the computer and technology, the amount of knowledge an architect possesses keeps on growing.” TechnologyGrowingAmountComputerArchitectSpecialists Author:Santiago Calatrava
“As Walt Whitman correctly surmised, we are large and we harbor multitudes within us. And those multitudes are locked in chronic battle. There is an ongoing conversation among the different factions in your brain, each competing to control the single output channel of your behavior. As a result, you can accomplish the strange feats of arguing with yourself, cursing at yourself, and cajoling yourself to do something - feats that modern computers simply do not do.” DifferentResultsBrainModernStrangeBattleConversationBehaviorComputerAccomplishArguingLockedMultitudesCompetingOngoingHarborsFeatsFactionsOutputWaltCursing Author:David Eagleman
“I wish I knew how to sleep late! I generally wake horribly early, often with a head full of thoughts and deadlines that propel me to my computer.” WishSleepComputerLateDeadlineSleep Late Author:Catherine Mayer
“My mother used to say, "Tell your brain you want that piece of information or you want to solve this problem, and then just walk away from it. Just forget about it. Just do something else, completely distract yourself, and you'll see, it's like a computer. Eventually, it will deliver it up." And I find that's really true.” WantProblemUsedMotherWalksForgetBrainPiecesInformationComputerSolveReally True Author:Emma Walton Hamilton
“We can open up our computers and Skype with someone, and we see them. It's like looking through a window. And we can surf the internet through our phones, and it's like our consciousness is far away. Or we can step through a airplane door and be in another continent a few hours away. So technology feels, to me, like the doors sort of already exist, at least emotionally.” FeelsHoursConsciousnessStepsTechnologyDoorsInternetComputerWindowPhonesAirplaneFar AwayContinentsSurfSkype Author:Mohsin Hamid
“The only basis for even talking about global warming is the predictions spewed out by computer models. The only quote/unquote "evidence" of global warming is what models are predicting the climate and the weather will be in the next 50 to 100 years. Now, what those models spit out is only as good as the data that's put in, and it's an absolute joke. In terms of science, it's a total joke. There is no warming, global or otherwise!” YearsNextTermTalkingComputerModelsJokesEvidenceBasesAbsolutesClimateWeatherDataGlobal WarmingPredictionsSpitPredicting Author:Rush Limbaugh
“They're not predicting global warming based on what's happened in the past; they're basing it on what their computer predictions say, and nothing more.” PastHappenedComputerGlobal WarmingPredictionsPredicting Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I feel very strongly that if you got rid of all of the autistic genetics you're not going to have any scientists. There'd be no computer people. You'd lose a lot of artists and musicians. There'd be a horrible price to pay.” PeopleIfsFeelsArtistLosesPayComputerMusicianScientistHorribleVery StrongGeneticsAutistic Author:Temple Grandin
“There's no black and white dividing line between a mild Aspergers, which is the mild autism, and computer engineer, for example.” BlackLinesWhiteExampleComputerEngineersBlack And WhiteAutismDividingAspergers Author:Temple Grandin
“I look at the successful people that have, you know, high functioning autism and Asperger's, they're ones where maybe the parents were in the computer industry and they just taught the kids programming at, you know, age eight and nine and they just went on into the industry with their parents.” PeopleKnowsLooksKidsAgeParentSuccessfulTaughtIndustryComputerEightNineProgrammingSuccessful PeopleAutismAspergers Author:Temple Grandin
“Every new thing upsets people. We all know someone that has a teenage kid who sits in the room and the television is on, their iPod is on, they have the computer on and at least three other electronic devices going while they're doing their homework. It drives the dad nuts, but he can't complain because the kid's a 4.1 (GPA) student.” PeopleKnowsKidsThreeRoomsStudentsTelevisionDadComputerComplainingUpsetDevicesNutsNew ThingsTeenageHomeworkIpodsElectronic DevicesGpa Author:Paul Saffo
“If you look at the last 150 years, about every 30 years or so, a new scientific discipline emerges that starts spinning out technologies and capturing people's imaginations. Go back to 1900: That industry was chemistry. People had chemistry sets. In the 1930s, it was the rise of physics and physicists. They build on each other. Chemists laid the experimental understanding for the physicists to build their theories. It was three physicists who invented the transistor in 1947. That started the information revolution. Today, kids get computers.” PeopleIfsYearsLooksKidsTodayLastsThreeUnderstandingImaginationTechnologyInformationTheoryRevolutionIndustryDisciplineComputerPhysicsChemistryPhysicistSpinning1930sChemistTransistors Author:Paul Saffo
“I'm like the random guy who you would think I'm a computer freak and you would think that I'm a massive art collector, but I'm really not.” ThinkingArtGuyComputerMassiveFreakCollectors Author:Pharrell Williams
“We are lucky in the United States to have our liberal arts system. In most countries, if you go to university, you have to decide for all English literature or no literature, all philosophy or no philosophy. But we have a system that is one part general education and one part specialization. If your parents say you've got to major in computer science, you can do that. But you can also take general education courses in the humanities, and usually you have to.” IfsArtCountryStatesPhilosophyHumanityCoursesLiteratureParentCan DoUnitedUnited StatesLuckyComputerMajorsUniversityComputer ScienceEnglish LiteratureSpecializationLiberal ArtsGeneral Education Author:Martha C. Nussbaum
“I think that one of the challenges for a parent and myself as a parent is that we live in a very electronic media age. That's obvious to everyone. And I'm not opposed to time on computers or time with television or time with any other electronic media but I think that quiet, thoughtful interaction between one's self, your mind and words is an irreplacable thing.” ThinkingMindSelfAgeParentChallengesMediaTelevisionQuietComputerObviousThoughtfulInteractionElectronic Media Author:Josh Prince
“Design is a thinking process that starts in the head and with sketches. Thinking cannot be done by a computer.” ThinkingDoneProcessDesignComputerThinking Process Author:Dieter Rams
“Some of us have such incredible things that can keep us from acting. We have the luxury of drinking such good wine, and having such good information at our fingertips. I can look up anything on my computer. And I can call any friend at the drop of a hat on my cell phone. And I can have beautiful clothing and great food in a world where people are being tortured. I have some responsibility for that.” PeopleWorldLooksI CanBeautifulActingResponsibilityInformationComputerWineDrinkingIncrediblesPhonesLuxuryCellsLook UpHatsClothingsCell PhoneFingertipsGood WineGreat FoodGood Information Author:Dar Williams
“I don't understand the world of the Internet. I just type up on my computer.” WorldTypeInternetComputer Author:Andre Leon Talley
“Here's the thing, who cares what you have to look at, I'm a big advocate of not obscuring vistas, but even if you build the biggest wind farm, can it run anything more than a domestic washer and dryer and a computer, for the year? I'm sorry guys, the answer, you're going to be shocked to know: it ain't much more than that.” IfsKnowsYearsLooksBigsCareRunningGuyAnswersWindComputerSorryFarmsI'm SorryShockedWho CaresVistasDryersWind Farms Author:Greg Graffin
“I'm a computer freak. I'm on the Internet every night. Sometimes I play dungeons and dragons with 15-year-old boys who think I'm a 15-year-old boy with a weird vocabulary.” ThinkingYearsSometimesPlayNightBoysInternetComputerDragonsFreakEvery NightVocabularyDungeonsDungeons And Dragons Author:Jean Houston
“I certainly think we're losing a lot of our connections with other people. I fear in my most pessimistic moments that the computer is simply another step down the road which we have already taken quite a few steps on. We're talking to each other on computers because we don't talk across the fence.” PeopleThinkingMomentsTalkingStepsTakenComputerLosingConnectionsFencePessimisticDown The RoadAlready Taken Author:Howard Rheingold
“Doesn't it seem ironic that people fear that we might become alienated by communicating with each other through computers, when we are already staring at these boxes in our living rooms for seven or eight hours a day, slack-jawed and saying nothing to anyone on either side and not talking back to it.” PeopleSeemsMightSidesHoursRoomsTalkingComputerSevenBoxesCommunicateEightStaringIronicLiving RoomNot TalkingSaying NothingTalking Back Author:Howard Rheingold
“The mediated world has approached us from a lot of different directions and we have freely chosen our automobiles and our skyscrapers and our televisions and our telephones and our computers because they have given us power and freedom. Now we are beginning to notice there's a price to pay for them. It's all interconnected, the good stuff and the bad stuff comes together.” WorldDifferentTogetherGivenStuffPayTelevisionComputerChosenTelephonesAutomobileInterconnectedDifferent DirectionsSkyscraperBad Stuff Author:Howard Rheingold
“I think Trump has made it really hard for people to read, period. He's made it hard for me anyway. Part of his evil is the way it constantly distracts us, constantly upends our horizon. To leave your computer for three hours now is to miss a year's worth of drama. This is programmatic and common to other autocratic regimes of our times.” PeopleThinkingWayYearsMadeHardThreeEvilHoursCommonMissingTrumpPeriodsDramaComputerMade ItOur TimeHorizonRegimes Author:Jonathan Raymond
“The computer is designed to mimic reality. And in an animated world, in my perspective, that's the worst thing to do. I want people to walk into a movie theater and be transported to a different world.” PeopleWorldWantDifferentRealityWalksWorstPerspectiveComputerTheaterThings To DoWorst ThingsAnimatedDifferent WorldsMovie Theater Author:Genndy Tartakovsky
“I'm a total luddite when it comes to technology. Pretending I know how to use a computer is a challenge.” KnowsUseChallengesTechnologyKnow HowComputerPretending Author:Ben Schnetzer
“I never liked the philosophy that you can have everything and be everything and that something is wrong if you don't want that. I'm terrible at multitasking and find it hard to believe that no one protests this general trend of using the rhetoric of self actualization to sell you faster and faster phones and computers, BlackBerrys, etc.” IfsWantBelieveSelfHardPhilosophyTerribleComputerSellsPhonesFasterEtcProtestTrendsRhetoricSelf ActualizationHard To BelieveMultitaskingActualization Author:Elaine Equi
“There was a magical breakthrough when the computer became cheap and we could see that everyone could afford a computer.” ComputerBreakthrough Author:Bill Gates
“Sometimes I'm drawing onto a computer directly, sometimes I'm drawing on paper , so I can't really talk about drafts. It's just like having soft clay until it hardens. At least as much of the problem has to do with the decisions of what to represent, how to represent that, and how to reduce it down. The words in the balloons aren't particularly poetic necessarily, but it has the same problem as poetry, which is that one has to do great reduction. And if I tried to draw everything, you'd just have a tangled mess of a picture. The stripping down takes much longer than building up.” SometimesProblemDecisionBuildingComputerMessPoeticTangled Author:Art Spiegelman
“We think of music as this substance that flows - you turn on the tap, and there it is, streaming off your computer - but that's not how we evolved as a species. We evolved to listen to each other, and the reason we're able to listen to music in the terms is talking about is because we're really good at listening to each other. But this kind of technology has allowed us to forget that music is the sound of each other.” ThinkingKindReasonTermForgetTechnologyListeningComputerMusic IsListening To MusicStreaming Author:Vijay Iyer
“Who knows whats going to happen with whole Internet Web series thing. I mean, obviously people are spending a lot more time on their computer.The great thing about it is so many short films have been done over the time and there is not a real, there is not a venue for them because everybody goes to see a feature length film so it really is a great vehicle to do these kind of short creative pieces, so its kind of fun to be a part of that and kind of see what can happen from that. But trailblazer, I don't know. I mean, that's a pretty fancy word.” PeopleKindMeanRealDoneFilmFunCreativeInternetComputerGreat ThingsVehicleShort Films Author:Tony Hale
“I've never considered soundtracks for what I write. Nor have I considered computer drawing or painting. As a painter, I'm still trying to perfect what I started out doing with brushes, pen and ink, paint, etc. The transition, for me, from typewriter to computer was a big step. I am now very comfortable with writing on a computer but it took awhile. Because I did make that big step I won't rule out what happens in the future.” WritingTryingPerfectPaintingComputerPaintPainterPens Author:Clarence Major
“The computer is a mind machine. It doesn't have its own psychology, but in a way it presents itself as though it does.” MindPsychologyComputer Author:Sherry Turkle
“One problem with writing on the computer, as I do, is that the page is never really 'blank." It is backed by all this energy or potential energy...one can always check the New York Times, or look at real estate, or investigate some intriguing new person in one's life. The span and space for writing feels like a tunnel under these massive mountains of information.” WritingRealProblemEnergyMountainComputerIntriguing Author:Dan Chiasson
“We live in an age now where people go to the movies and, even the biggest movies are in the theaters six, eight weeks and then gone. And then for the rest of time now people are watching them on their phones, or computers, or TVs. And that's how the films gonna live.” PeopleAgeFilmWeekComputer Author:Bryan Bertino