“You turn the computer into the storyteller and the player into the audience, like in the old days when the storyteller would actually respond to the audience, rather than just having the audience respond to the storyteller. I had an enormous amount of fun, actually, working on that.” TurnsFunAudiencePlayerAmountComputerEnormousStorytellerOld Days Author:Douglas Adams
“Chess is, in essence, a game for children. Computers have exacerbated the trends towards youth because they now have an immensely powerful tool at their disposal and can absorb vast amounts of information extremely quickly.” ChildrenGamesPowerfulInformationYouthAmountComputerToolsEssenceChessTrends Author:Nigel Short
“I begin with understanding the intentions of the story. That helps me to zero in. Then I gather research for each individual character and analyze the time period with comparisons to the figure and the facial structure. It helps to be comfortable with computers because the massive amount of research is kept electronically and shared with my staff this way. Very little is printed out. I work with an illustrator to come up with the proper silhouettes and details of the clothing from the time period to time period. And on and on.” WayLittlesCharacterHelpingStoriesIndividualUnderstandingFiguresAmountPeriodsComfortableComputerResearchStructureIntentionCome UpDetailsHelp MeComparisonMassiveZeroClothingsStaffPrintedFacialSilhouettesIllustratorsTime Periods Author:Ruth E. Carter
“The early personal computers were not very powerful so the idea of feeding their program into a small amount of memory requires immense skill.” IdeasMemoriesPowerfulAmountSkillsComputerProgramImmenseFeedingVery PowerfulSmall AmountsPersonal Computers Author:Bill Gates
“When you develop software, the people who write the software, the developers are the key group but the testers also play an absolutely critical role. They're the ones who ah, write thousands and thousands of examples and make sure that it's going to work on all the different computers and printers and the different amounts of memory or networks that the software'11 be used in. That's a very hard job.” PeopleWritingDifferentHardPlayJobsUsedMemoriesRolesGroupsExampleKeysAmountComputerCriticalSoftwareGoing To WorkDevelopersPrinterTesters Author:Bill Gates
“If you were a nerd computer geek in 1982, the amount of isolation you felt - at least what I experienced, or the kids I knew, the isolation they felt - was almost total. They were not part of society; no one thought they were cool.” IfsKidsFeltAmountComputerIsolationNerdGeek Author:Junot Diaz
“There are certainly lots of jobs in computer coding, but coding doesn't really require advanced mathematics. And engineering jobs, they vary widely in the amount of demand that we actually need. So, you know, the number of people for whom the job description includes Newton's calculus is not perhaps that high.” PeopleKnowsNeedsJobsNumbersAmountDemandComputerMathematicsDescriptionEngineeringVaryNewtonCalculus Author:Anya Kamenetz
“The changes are coming so quickly it's been difficult for workers to retrain themselves and for entrepreneurs to figure out where the next opportunities may be. The catalyst is something called computer learning or artificial intelligence - the ability to feed massive amounts of data into supercomputers and program them to teach themselves and improve their performance.” MayNextOpportunityDifficultAbilityTeachFiguresAmountComputerProgramPerformancesEntrepreneurWorkersDataMassiveArtificial IntelligenceArtificialCatalystSupercomputers Author:Andrew McAfee
“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
“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
“If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.” IfsChildrenStoriesFilmAmountComputerSittingImportanceStorytellingYour ChildrenSeatsEntertainingAnimationAnimatedAnimated FilmsMinivansComputer Animation Author:John Lasseter
“Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking.” LittlesBigsFilmMotherActorsSimpleMovementSeriousBabyAmountComputerToolsMovieFilmmakingDesksLampsAnimationNoveltyComputer Animation Author:John Lasseter