“If you want access to the files of valuable information in a computer, you must understand how to retrieve the data by asking for it with the proper commands. Likewise, what enables you to get anything you want from your own personal databanks is the commanding power of asking questions.” IfsWantMotivationalInformationComputerAskingValuableAccessCommandDataFilesAsking Questions Book:Awaken The Giant Within Source: Awaken The Giant Within
“I was asking questions which nobody else had asked before, because nobody else had actually looked at certain structures. Therefore, as I will tell, the advent of the computer, not as a computer but as a drawing machine, was for me a major event in my life. That's why I was motivated to participate in the birth of computer graphics, because for me computer graphics was a way of extending my hand, extending it and being able to draw things which my hand by itself, and the hands of nobody else before, would not have been able to represent.” WayHas BeensHandsAbleCertainEventsBirthComputerMajorsDrawsMachinesAskingStructureDrawingMotivatedAsking QuestionsExtendingAdventComputer Graphics Author:Benoit Mandelbrot
“Congress hasn't declared war on the countries - the majority of them are our allies - but without asking for public permission, NSA is running network operations against them that affect millions of innocent people. And for what? So we can have secret access to a computer in a country we're not even fighting?” PeopleWarCountryRunningFightingSecretMillionsComputerAskingMajorityCongressAccessInnocentOperationsAlliesPermissionNsa Author:Edward Snowden
“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.” HomeMiddleOfficeComputerMessagesAskingSouthIraqMilesPostsPrizeDivisionMidnightBaghdadMiddle Of NowhereAirborneHome Office Author:Rick Atkinson
“I once got a call from a bank, asking me to compute a mortgage, since their computers were down. This was a very depressing moment.” MomentsScienceComputerAskingMathematicsDepressingMortgageVery Depressing Author:Richard A. Falk
“Asking for money is better over coffee than over a computer.” ChristianLeadershipComputerAskingCoffeeAsking For Money Author:Jeff Henderson
“I got a phone call from George Miller [the director] asking me to play this role. We sat down and he showed me on his computer a documentary-type montage sequence of real penguins swimming, in an Esther Williams synchronized sort of way, and doing things I have never seen them do. Then he explained his vision of the film, asked me to read the script and to voice the character. I was cast a little bit later, and he let me do the singing as well!” WayWellsLittlesRealPlayCharacterFilmBitsVoiceVisionRolesTypeDirectorsComputerLittle BitSingingLet MeAskingDown AndScriptsCastsPhonesSatSwimmingDocumentariesSequencePhone CallsPenguinsEsther Author:Brittany Murphy
“We invented our computers in the '80s. We networked them together in the '90s. Now we're giving them eyes, ears and sensory organs. And we're asking them to observe and manipulate the world on our behalf.” WorldGivingEyeTogetherComputerEarsAskingOrgans80sBehalfManipulateSensory Author:Esther Dyson
“The format's limitations are its strengths. We can't show you the monster, but why would we want to? Your imagination is a darker and scarier place than anything that can get generated on a computer. Asking the audience to use their imaginations makes it a much more personal and interactive experience.” WantUseShowsImaginationAudienceComputerAskingMonstersLimitationFormatInteractive Author:Glenn McQuaid