“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
“Science fiction does not attempt to predict. It extrapolates. It just says, "What if?" not what will be? Because you can never predict what will happen, particularly in politics and economics. You can to some extent predict in the technological sphere - flying, space travel, but even there we missed badly on some things, like computers. No one imagined the incredible impact of computers, even though robot brains of various kinds but the idea that one day every house would have a computer in every room and that one day we'd have computers built into our clothing, nobody ever thought of that.” KindHouseBrainOne DayComputerScience FictionIncrediblesVariousFlyingWhat IfTechnologicalSpace Travel Author:Arthur C. Clarke
“Ever since high school I've been writing in a spiral notebook, in pencil. Everything looks too polished on a computer when you start writing, and I can't really see it. I feel like the words are much more naked in pencil, on a notebook. I feel that my brain works differently, and words come out differently, if I have a pencil in my hand, rather than if I have a keyboard. I tend to add more in the margins. I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love.” WritingFeelingsSchoolBrainComputerHigh SchoolNotebook Author:Lily King
“When I pick up a pencil, that this is a rough draft. This is not going anywhere, and no one's going to see it. You have permission to make all the mistakes you want. It signals freedom to me, and it signals mistakes. Then when I put it on the computer, a different part of my brain kicks in and I really evaluate every single word and sentence and make decisions. I like that step of polishing while I'm rewriting the entire thing, not just cutting and pasting. Really putting in every word and making a decision: is this something I can stand by?” DifferentDecisionMistakeBrainCuttingComputerRoughSingle Word Author:Lily King
“What specialists try to do is get at least three imaging processes that are totally different from each other. Then you can run these through a computer program and make a composite image. In one scenario you suspect a brain tumor, so you image the brain tumor with PET scans, MRIs, and CT scans and create a 3D model. The doctor opens up the skull to excise the cancer, but they can't see anything. Do you cut out what's supposed to be in that spot or not? The current story is yes, you believe the images over what you see with your eyes.” TryingBelieveDifferentEyeRunningBrainCuttingComputerProgramCancerPet Author:Don Ihde
“Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.” HumansBrainAchieveComputerCapacityTransformationHuman BrainPersonal ComputersSupercomputers Author:Ray Kurzweil
“Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two but can't remember what they are.” TwoFunnyRememberBrainProduceComputerReactionsCulinaryChocolatePotMarijuanaDessertSimilarityResearchersCannabisFunny MarijuanaFunny WeedFunny ChocolateSweets And Desserts Author:Matt Lauer
“I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.” MindHumansFactsLiteratureBrainTheoryGoes OnComputerBlowHuman MindOverload Author:Erma Bombeck
“Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't rightly see how somebody who claims to have had -What'd you say? One partner?-can be welled trained." He had a point. Her brain clicked away. "I was referring to the instructional videotapes my agency has all its new employees watch." "They train you by watching videos?" His eyes narrowed reminding her of a hunter looking down a gun sight,"Now, ain't that interesting." She felt a little surge of pleasure as her child lost another few points on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills. Even a computer couldn't have picked a more perfect match.” ChildrenLittlesEyeLostFeltPerfectPleasureInterestingBrainWatchesMissingSkillsComputerGunTestsSightClaimsTrainPartnersVideoAgencyHis EyesEmployeeHuntersRemindingReferringIowaLooking DownMissing SomethingPerfect MatchNew Employees Author:Susan Elizabeth Phillips
“- My instructors in science and technology have taught us about how the brain works. It's full of electrical impulses. It's like a computer. If you stimulate one part of the brain with an electrode, it... - They know nothing.” IfsKnowsBrainTechnologyTaughtComputerImpulseWorking ItElectricalTaught UsScience And TechnologyInstructors Book:The Giver Quartet Omnibus Source: The Giver Quartet Omnibus
“That's what I love about writing. Once you get the words down on paper, in print, they start to make sense. It's like you don't know what you think until it dribbles from your brain down your arm and into your hand and out through your fingers and shows up on the computer screen, and you read it and realize: That's really true; I believe that.” ThinkingKnowsWritingBelieveShowsHandsI BelieveRealizingBrainLike YouArmsPaperComputerFingersScreensMake SensePrintReally TrueDribbleComputer Screen Book:Hard Love Source: Hard Love
“Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it. In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone switchboard...Sherrington, the great British neuroscientist, thought the brain worked like a telegraph system. Freud often compared the brain to hydraulic and electromagnetic systems. Leibniz compared it to a mill...At present, obviously, the metaphor is the digital computer.” TryingWellsUseScienceBrainTechnologyChildhoodComputerModelsMetaphorBritishDigitalTelephonesTemptedAssuredComputer ScienceMillsTelegraphLatest Technology Author:John Searle