“I, from the luxury of my laptop computer, can summon extraordinary bargains on everything I want, and I can also move my savings anywhere. This ability to choose more broadly and to switch more easily is the central fact of modern economic life.” MovingAbilityEconomicModernComputerExtraordinary Author:Robert Reich
“Before information age, living standards basically were flat. Since then, they've been growing 2 percent a year were about 30 times richer. So technology, machines is really, you know, arguably the most important thing that's happened to humanity in terms of our living standards. You could look to the introduction of digital computers in the 1950s.” ImportantAgeHumanityTermTechnologyComputerIntroduction Author:Erik Brynjolfsson
“Computers get better, faster than anything else ever. A child's PlayStation today is more powerful than a military supercomputer from 1996. But our brains are wired for a linear world. As a result, exponential trends take us by surprise. I used to teach my students that there are some things, you know, computers just aren't good at like driving a car through traffic.” WorldTodayPowerfulBrainTeachMilitaryCarStudentsComputerSurpriseDrivingGet Better Author:Erik Brynjolfsson
“Today, you talk to kids about books and they almost want to run away because they've got computers, iPads and all that, while we had to actually sit down and crack the books open and go line by line to try to learn all that stuff.” TryingBookRunningKidsTodayComputerRunning Away Author:Maurice Ashley
“I'm the most computer illiterate human being that ever lived. My grandkids do everything for me, and then they say, "I won't even explain it to you, grandpa, 'cause you won't get it."” ComputerIlliterateGrandpaGrandkids Author:Scott Glenn
“If you cannot make moving pictures about yourself, your country and your culture, it's as if you do not exist anymore in this world of images we live in. Because now when we all switch on our smartphones or our iPads or our computers, it's all image and sound. All people and cultures must work to secure their place in the digital space. Cinema is also political in this way.” PeopleWorldCountryMovingPoliticalCultureComputerAbout Yourself Author:Rithy Panh
“Usually when you're playing with other people in not such a reverberant room, you have to be quick on your feet and think about stuff really quickly. But inside the cistern, it was almost like I was at home on my computer arranging and taking time thinking about the next step, the next note. Instead, the room was my collaborator. I could hear the note and sit there and think. I could be arranging as I was going in real time, which was fascinating.” PeopleThinkingRealHomeComputerTake Time Author:Jherek Bischoff
“I started typing diary in, I don't know, 1978 or '79, but then the computer changed that a lot. Because with the computer if you were writing and you realized you had three sentences in a row that started with the word "he," you could fix that right up, whereas on a typewriter you'd think, "Well, I'm not going to change the whole page. It's my diary." So that made a difference.” ThinkingWritingChangedComputerTyping Author:David Sedaris
“I am super lucky. I've been in the area where things have been changing and been part of the digital revolution, the magic of software, the internet, the computer, and now the cellphone... so it's been a great privilege.” MagicRevolutionInternetLuckyComputerSoftware Author:Bill Gates
“Nobody has a guaranteed position in computer technologies business. We've done some good work, but all of these products become obsolete so fast and the structure of the business as it broadens out is going to be so different.” DifferentDoneTechnologyComputerGood Work Author:Bill Gates
“There is this broad, broad recognition of how technology is enabling new things. Companies that never paid attention to computers in any form now see digital technology as creating threats and opportunities for them.” OpportunityAttentionTechnologyComputerThreatRecognition Author:Bill Gates
“I always want my mouth to be like two steps ahead of my brain and I want my hands to move without thinking. I want to be able to dive into my computer or use my controllers without having to be, like, "Hmm, what would be a good choice here?" You just want music to happen like the same way the sweat's rolling off my face.” ThinkingMovingChoicesBrainComputerHmmGood Choices Author:Dan Deacon
“I don't think I would ever be a doctor, but the reason I majored in science was because you could become a civil engineer, you could become a biologist, you could become a computer scientist - that was the point of it. I had no idea what I wanted to do. In my last two years of high school here happened to be these few scripts that I really responded to. Eventually, I landed the job, and that was something that I felt transcended whatever other people would think of me.” PeopleThinkingReasonSchoolComputerHigh SchoolScientistThink Of MeBiologist Author:Bill Skarsgard
“When I have a first draft, I have a floor under my feet that I can walk on. Then, especially with the help of the computer, rewriting is so easy to do with the computer, much easier than it used to be with the typewriter. So the books go through numerous drafts.” BookHelpingEasyComputer Author:Philip Roth
“Most people would say they live with an internal angst that they can't always put their finger on. This is because the Internet has changed our very way of being in this world, compelling us to be perpetually "on" - from our cars to our computers, our tablets to our smartphones, our desks to our living rooms or dining tables, our churches to our libraries to our schools.” PeopleWorldSchoolChurchCarChangedInternetComputerLibraryAngstLiving Room Author:Tricia Rhodes
“Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.” FunnyScienceThreeLostWorkBreakObjectsComputerMajorsDown AndCategoriesBreaking DownBreak UpLost FriendshipInanimate Objects Author:Russell Baker
“The FBI's director's letter to Congress revealed that there were e-mails on Clinton aide Huma Abedin's computer, but that's just about it, just that there were emails, not much more information.” ComputerClinton Author:Alison Stewart
“Until computers and robots make quantum advances, they basically remain adding machines: capable only of doing things in which all the variables are controlled and predictable. Robots are bad at pattern recognition and certainly at common sense. That's why computers can beat humans in chess but can't have even a basic conversation with a six-year-old.” CommonComputerCapableChessCommon SenseRecognitionPredictable Author:Michio Kaku
“It would be in pretty poor form for me to not be a big supporter of tech and computers because that is how I do my work and how I got involved. The advancement and the affordability of tech gear has made a level playing field where you can now have access to ideas reasonably and then it just comes down to extracting those ideas, which is great.” PoorComputerSupporter Author:Clint Mansell
“I think technology is fantastic but maybe it's just developed too fast for us in real world applications. By the same token the fact that a guy can get a laptop and make music that can be put straight into a TV show I suppose shows a disparity when you're somebody who has gone to college and learned all this stuff. So if you apply that to the entire world than certainly computers have changed everything. But I'd be a hypocrite if I complained about it because it's given me a career. I'm part of the problem is what I'm saying!” ThinkingWorldRealProblemGuyTechnologyChangedCollegeComputerFantasticReal WorldApplicationHypocrite Author:Clint Mansell
“We're training kids to do what computers do, which is spit back facts. And computers are always going to be better than human beings at that. But what they're not going to be better at is being social, navigating relationships, being citizens in a community. So we need to change the whole definition of what success in school, and out of school, means.” MeanKidsSchoolCommunityComputerTraining Author:Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
“We're very aggressive speakers. I remember when I was with one of my roommates in New York - and she's Portuguese, too - and we were in an Apple store talking about a computer in Portuguese. Some guy comes up to us and goes, "Hey, hey! Peace, peace! Stop arguing." It's not arguing. This is really just how we talk.” RememberGuyComputerArguingAggressiveSpeakersRemember WhenPortugueseRoommate Author:Daniela Ruah
“I think it happens to a lot of people who make music just on a computer by themselves, you don't see the bigger picture. You don't see the forest for the trees. You're looking at every tree so closely, and every tree looks so cool. But you're making a forest, man, you're not making a tree.” PeopleThinkingMenTreeComputerBigger Picture Author:Eef Barzelay
“With all the hype that computer graphics has been getting, everybody thinks there's nothing better than CGI, but I do get a lot of fan mail saying they prefer our films to anything with CGI in it. I'm grateful for that, and we made them on tight budgets, so they were considered B-pictures because of that. And, now here we are, and they've outlasted many so-called A-pictures.” ThinkingFilmComputerGrateful Author:Ray Harryhausen
“The music business has made a 360. It's a whole 'nother game. It's not nearly what it was. And I fear for it, because, you know, with the advent of the computer and online and downloading and all these things, they have destroyed - that stuff has destroyed the record business, not the music business, but the record business. The music business is well, and it's alive and thriving. Now, I hope something happens to turn it back around to the point whereas it's - you're earning a living from writing your songs, from your work, you know, because it's not like that anymore.” WritingSongComputerThings HappenOnlineMusic BusinessAdvent Author:Smokey Robinson
“I often feel like a dinosaur. I don't get the technology thing at all. I was on the Internet not long ago for Barnes and Noble, and people were ringing up from all over the world - Australia, Canada, France. I experienced it as an informal chat, which was pleasant, but I couldn't quite take it in. It had a strong element of unreality. I can't be bothered to switch to a computer at my age, though I might get along with e-mail, which sounds appealing.” PeopleWorldLongAgeStrongTechnologyInternetComputerBothered Author:Doris Lessing
“All experiments that are related to the games when you have humans versus machines in the games - whether it's chess or "Go" or any other game - machines will prevail not because they can solve the game. Chess is mathematically unsolvable. But at the end of the day, the machine doesn't have to solve the game. The machine has to win the game. And to win the game, it just has to make fewer mistakes than humans. Which is not that difficult since humans are humans and vulnerable, and we don't have the same steady hand as the computer.” WinningDifficultMistakeComputerChessVulnerableSteady Author:Garry Kasparov
“It's interesting that the greatest minds of computer science, the founding fathers, like Alan Turing and Claude Shannon and Norbert Wiener, they all looked at chess as the ultimate test. So they thought, "Oh, if a machine can play chess, and beat strong players, set aside a world champion, that would be the sign of a dawn of the AI era." With all due respect, they were wrong.” WorldMindFatherStrongInterestingPlayerComputerUltimateChessChampionComputer Science Author:Garry Kasparov
“I would say, you have a unique chance of learning more about the game of chess with your computer than Bobby Fischer, or even myself, could manage throughout our entire lives. What is very important is that you will use this power productively and you will not be hijacked by the computer screen. Always keep your personality intact.” ImportantChancePersonalityComputerUniqueChessManage Author:Garry Kasparov
“Remember that the machine is there to help you, because at the end of the day, you're not playing freestyle chess, advanced chess, human-plus-machine. If you are playing against other humans, it's about winning the game. The machine will not be assisting you, unless you are cheating of course. And since the machine is not there, you have to make sure that everything you learn from the computer will not badly affect the way you play the real game.” RealHelpingRememberWinningComputerChessCheating Author:Garry Kasparov
“It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom.” TodayYoungWhiteComputerWineGlassesNewspapersNoiseSmokeReportersSolemnNursingFittingDatabasesToilingWhite WineNewspaper ReportersYesteryear Author:Russell Baker
“I'm kind of a tech person, a nerd. I've always been the person who, when we got our Christmas presents, knew how to work them and set them up; the racecars, whatever. Sit me down in front of a computer program, I'll be fine.” KindComputerProgramNerdChristmas Present Author:Alexandra Richards
“I'll never retire. They'll have to take my computer out of my cold, dead hands. I'm addicted to writing. I feel physically unwell if I'm not doing it.” WritingColdComputerRetiring Author:Russell Hoban
“Not only are we not using any programmed loops or computers onstage, we're also improvising with our instruments. We're playing our instruments probably more so than most people that I see play their instruments. I think we all sort of strive for that - we all want magical things to happen onstage. We don't say "mistakes" in this band, we call them "highlights."” PeopleThinkingMistakeComputerStrive Author:Brendan Benson
“Self-published media are really critical. It's so heartwarming that people are still doing it in this digital age. It's just really moving and exciting. You can't really replace a beautiful little mini-comic. It doesn't translate to the computer, you know? Handmade stuff has really given me hope for humanity.” PeopleAgeBeautifulMovingHumanityComputerExcitingTranslateHeartwarming Author:Alison Bechdel
“Technology has just been the major progression of the last 15 years - instant communication. That stuff has gone so global. That's what's interesting about it. When someone sits down in front of a computer, it's the same everywhere in the world, and it's the same screen looking back at you with the same Google, and there's no individuality to it. So I decided it would be kind of visually uninteresting to have in my films.” WorldKindFilmInterestingTechnologyCommunicationComputerIndividualityInstantBe KindGoogleLooking BackProgression Author:Ti West
“I didn't really think I would be a musician. I always thought I'd be a writer. I wanted to be a writer in college, but I thought I could be a better musician. I loved the process of writing music and lyrics more than I loved the process of sitting at my computer and writing. Because of that, I thought I would be a better musician than a writer.” ThinkingWritingCollegeComputerMusician Author:Leah Siegel
“You know, in college, I never got either degree, but I was a double-major in Computer Science and English. And English at Berkeley, where I went to school, is very much creatively-driven. Basically, the entire bachelor's degree in English is all about bullshitting. And Computer Science, which was my other major, was exactly the opposite of that. You had to know what you were doing, and you had to know what you were talking about.” SchoolCollegeComputerComputer ScienceBerkeley Author:Jonathan Blow
“It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.” PeopleWritingI CanAsksDisciplineComputerLeavingDesksFunny Things Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“Every time I have people over, I watch how long they look at every part of the painting, or pictures on my computer. I have a few close friends and people that are constants. Whether I like their opinion or not, I've been hearing it for a long time and I can use it as this constant. I mentally pay attention to how long they look at every image, which ones they pause on and what parts of it they look at.” PeopleLongAttentionOpinionPaintingComputerPay AttentionClose Friends Author:Damian Loeb
“The only thing that you might see that is a planned tweet is if I am tweeting about an event or promoting an artist. But really, it is not planned. If I am sitting in front of my computer, I'm like, "Oh, okay, lets tweet about this and attach the link." I try to be spontaneous with the tweeting. It keeps it fun, you never know when or what I may tweet about.” TryingArtistFunComputerOkaySpontaneousTweetBe Spontaneous Author:Bryan-Michael Cox
“I was shocked when I looked at art schools in France. There's only one left that does anatomy. Now they do video. They do editing. I would go to film school if I wanted to do video and editing. In art school, it's only new mediums. It's three-dimensional or computer. I found that shocking. No nudes.” ArtSchoolFilmComputerAnatomy Author:Lou Doillon
“Almost every profession I look at where you require human labor or you require intelligence, I see computers being able to do better than us within the next 10 years. I'm talking about a mass replacement of humans with artificial intelligence and robots.” ComputerLaborProfessionArtificial Intelligence Author:Vivek Wadhwa
“One of the best things I ever did was to train in a practical skill. I love computers and they've become such a part of life, especially to the world of design. But it's important to understand that they are a tool, as much as a hammer or a saw is a tool. Computers don't help you design. There needs to be more emphasis on training young designers in how to build things. A good writer needs a good vocabulary. A good designer needs to understand his materials and processes. You can't, as a successful designer, pretend to get any respect if you don't know how things are made.” WorldImportantHelpingSuccessfulDesignComputerTrainingTrainDesignerGood Design Author:Marc Newson
“I was always writing. When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories. But as soon I as capable, I started writing. I filled notebooks and notebooks until I got my first computer when I was 11. It never really occurred to me that I would do anything else.” WritingKidsComputerCapableLittle KidNotebook Author:Amanda Hocking
“Everyone is so addicted to their damn phone. It's sad to see the filmmaker's work diminished down to a computer screen.” Computer Author:Jennifer Aniston
“You look at Japan and Hayao Miyazaki's films are the biggest films ever made in Japan; domestically there and they play to critical acclaim around the world. He won't put more then 5 or 10 percent computer imagery in his movies. It's disappointing to me. It's a silly choice that some studios made to move out of animation. It's part of the unfortuneate preconception that I think the public has going into see animation.” ThinkingWorldFilmMovingChoicesComputerSillyAnimationImageryDisappointingPreconceptions Author:Chris Wedge
“I've been working in computer animation for 25 years. I'm obviously a devotee of the technology. I just think it's the one aspect of the medium that's going to continue to revolutionize the filmmaking. It's constantly changing and it's constantly opening up new possibilities. The technology is evolving where 2-D animation was ultimately limited by how long you could pay how many people to make a movie. I mean computers, not that it's in anyway a labor saving device, but it promises to open up exciting new technical possibilites.” PeopleThinkingMeanLongTechnologyPossibilityPromiseComputerLaborExcitingEvolveFilmmakingAnimation Author:Chris Wedge
“I get a lot of credit for Tron. They called us scene choreographers back then because the animation unit wouldn't let us be called animators because we were working on computers. And we were some of the first people ever to make 3-D computer animation.” PeopleSceneComputerAnimationAnimator Author:Chris Wedge
“If the animators could hide something so secretly that I could watch it numerous times, both on the computer and on the screen, and not pick up on it, then it deserves to be in the movie. But if they had more overt things, I'd often tell them to cut it out. In general, as long as they captured the spirit of the character, then they're fine. But sometimes it took a while, and we had to replace a lot of animators.” LongSometimesCharacterSpiritCuttingComputerDeserveAnimator Author:Richard Linklater