“I don't like dirty. That's why I hate cigarettes. A little bit of alcohol is O.K., but no drugs. And I like to sleep alone because I wake up, I walk around, I bring my computer with me to bed, I have a great time.” LittlesHateBitsSleepWalksDrugBedComputerLittle BitI HateWake UpAlcoholDirtyCigaretteGreat Times Author:Jean Pigozzi
“I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.” ThinkingWorldPastArtistBitsBrainInformationComputer Author:Gerald Scarfe
“Anyone with a little computer experience knows that anything can be copied bit-by-bit with the right equipment.” KnowsLittlesBitsComputerEquipment Author:Jon Lech Johansen
“I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.” ArtHandsUsedBitsInterestTechnologyRichComputerPaintVery GoodDataExposedGamingFusionArt And Technology Author:Aaron Koblin
“Once you can understand something in a way that you can shove it into a computer, you have cracked its code, transcended any particularity it might have at a given time. It was as if we had become the gods of vision and had effectively created all possible images, for they would merely be reshufflings of the bits in the computers we had before us, completely under our command.” IfsWayMightGivenBitsVisionComputerCodeCracked Author:Jaron Lanier
“[With quantum computers] you can calculate how many bits are in the universe, how much energy it takes to flip them, how much energy exists, and use that to rule out lots of things about the universe's history. Anything that takes more bit flips couldn't have happened.” UseUniverseEnergyBitsHappenedComputerQuantumFlip Author:Seth Lloyd
“The insight at the root of artificial intelligence was that these "bits" (manipulated by computers) could just as well stand as symbols for concepts that the machine would combine by the strict rules of logic or the looser associations of psychology.” WellsBitsPsychologyComputerConceptsRootsLogicMachinesInsightSymbolsArtificial IntelligenceAssociationArtificialStrictStrict Rules Author:Daniel Crevier
“A computer is a wonderful and friendly machine, because it's always just a little better than you are. You're always a little bit behind, but it stays right there with you anyway. It allows you to make the mistakes, and then to try to find out what the mistakes are, and then to repair the mistakes. It's always your friend. It quits on you, but it doesn't leave the apartment.” TryingLittlesBitsBehindsMistakeWonderfulComputerLittle BitMachinesQuittingFriendlyApartmentBetter Than You Author:Frederick Barthelme
“I'm always thinking about songs, I'm thinking of life maybe a little bit more lyrically than a computer programmer or someone like that.” ThinkingLittlesSongBitsComputerLittle BitProgrammersAlways ThinkingComputer Programmers Author:Jon Foreman
“Critics have found in the narrative a veneer of erudition that cloaks nothing more than a James Bond-style romp, albeit a highly addictive one. His publisher has described it as 'a thriller for people who don't like thrillers'. One newspaper put it thus: 'It is terribly written, its characters are cardboard cutouts, the dialogue is excruciating in places and, a bit like a computer manual, everything is overstated and repeated - but it is impossible to put the bloody thing down.” PeopleCharacterFoundBitsImpossibleWrittenStyleComputerCriticsNewspapersDialogueNarrativeBloodyPublishersThrillersManualsCloaksVeneerErudition Author:Dan Brown
“I sampled a bit of stuff from my dad's collection. He has probably a bigger record collection than I do. I try to buy as much as possible, because I've never been able to keep an MP3 collection organized. I like to keep my computers as clean as possible.” TryingAbleStuffBitsRecordsDadComputerBiggerCleanMy DadOrganizedCollectionsMp3 Author:Girl Talk
“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
“If you're into writing and making people laugh, or just want to video blog something, you should get a simple digital video camera. And all computers now come with an easy video editing software program. Just mess around with that for a little bit, try to figure it out, then just put stuff online and have fun. Never give up!” PeopleIfsWantGivingShouldWritingTryingLittlesFunEasyStuffBitsSimpleLaughingFiguresGiving UpComputerLittle BitProgramCamerasVideoMessHaving FunDigitalOnlineSoftwareEditingNever Giving UpBlogsMaking People LaughVideo CamerasEditing SoftwareVideo Editing Author:Lucas Cruikshank
“A little bit more than 50% of what you see on screen is handcrafted and the other 50% was about emulating these textures on the computer. However, for us, when we were making it, we had to believe it was all handcrafted.” BelieveLittlesBitsComputerLittle BitScreensTextureHandcrafted Author:Alex Abreu
“The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) own computer model easily shows that President Obama's proposed regulations would reduce global warming by around 0.02 of a degree Celsius by the year 2100. Actually, the true number is probably even smaller because that calculation assumes a future rate of warming - there hasn't been any for 17 years now - quite a bit higher than it is likely to be.” YearsShowsBitsPresidentNumbersHigherDegreesComputerModelsAssumingEnvironmentalRateProtectionAgencyGlobal WarmingPresident ObamaRegulationCalculationsEnvironmental ProtectionEpa Author:Patrick Michaels
“Whatever job I had, I was always writing like crazy. All I ever liked about offices was being able to type up stories on the computer when no one was looking. I was never paying much attention in meetings because I was usually scribbling bits of my latest stories in the margins of the pad or thinking up names for my characters. This is a problem when you're supposed to be taking minutes of the meeting.” ThinkingWritingCharacterStoriesProblemAbleJobsNamesBitsAttentionCrazyMinutesTypeOfficeComputerMeetingsSupposed To BeMarginsPads Author:J. K. Rowling
“In terms of how the music developed, it was my normal process, which I would say is really a hybrid process of sketching on bits of paper, playing the piano, playing synthesisers, using the computer, staring out of the window, finding things I'd forgotten about, happy accidents, failed plans, best intentions, equipment failures. It is a multidimensional process incorporating a lot of planning and intention and a lot of randomness. Ultimately I just follow the material where it wants to go a lot of the time.” WantBitsProcessTermPlansMaterialsNormalPaperFindingsComputerWindowIntentionForgottenAccidentsPlanningStaringPianoEquipmentHybridRandomnessSketchingBest IntentionsIncorporatingHappy AccidentsPiano Playing Author:Max Richter
“I like to always stop with a couple of pages that I haven't - that are just raw copy, where I haven't touched it, I haven't tried to revise it, I haven't tried to polish it. It's like having a little bit of a runway. The next day when you sit down, you have the comfort of saying, well, I have got a little bit here, used to be in the typewriter. Now it's in the magic box, the computer.” WellsLittlesUsedNextBitsMagicHavensCoupleComfortComputerLittle BitPagesBoxesUsed To BeTouchedCopiesNext DayPolishTypewritersRunway Author:Stephen King
“That change happened about 1991. It was not possible to transfer the Expanded Instrument System to the computer until then, when 16-bit recording became available.” BitsHappenedComputerInstrumentsAvailableTransfers Author:Pauline Oliveros
“The greatest thing about my house was that I was in the far end of it and I could make as much noise as I wanted. By the time I moved out, I had a full-sized piano, two full-sized organs, bits and pieces of a drum kit, and a whole computer set up for Pro Tools. I had this mattress in between the piano and the organ. That was the only walking room.” TwoEndsWholeWantedHouseBitsRoomsPiecesWalkingComputerToolsMovedNoisePianoOrgansBits And PiecesMattresses Author:Zach Condon