“The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works and in reality the computer has a lot of influence on design.” RealityVisionInfluenceDesignBuildingPaperComputerNotionArchitectureDrawingTraditionalArchitect Author:Michael Hansmeyer
“In the summer of 1988, I received an interesting call from Bill Gates at Microsoft. He asked whether I'd like to come over and talk about building a new operating system at Microsoft for personal computers. What Bill had to offer was the opportunity to build another operating system, one that was portable.” OpportunityInterestingBuildingOffersComputerSummerBillsGatesMicrosoftOperating SystemsPersonal Computers Author:Dave Cutler
“The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.” LastsGoalBuildingComputerFinishedComputer Science Author:William C. Brown
“The modern world has created airports and hospitals and put 10,000 songs in our pocket. It has built gleaming buildings and computers and advances and innovations that blow our minds. But we have soul, and spirit, and consciousness, and the modern world hasn't done so well at helping us name and understand what it means to be thriving and fully alive with a full heart.” WorldMindWellsHeartMeanSoulDoneHelpingSpiritSongNamesConsciousnessAliveModernBuildingComputerBuiltInnovationBlowPocketsHospitalsAirportsModern WorldFull Hearts Author:Rob Bell
“I can't stand cell phones and I don't know one single thing about the computer. I have a friend come that lives in my building to check if I have emails. I don't even know what to google.” IfsKnowsI CanBuildingComputerPhonesChecksCellsGoogleEmailCell Phone Author:Brigid Berlin
“The conservatives see man as a body freely roaming the earth, building sand piles or factories - with an electronic computer inside his skull, controlled from Washington. The liberals see man as a soul freewheeling to the farthest reaches of the universe - but wearing chains from nose to toes when he crosses the street to buy a loaf of bread.” MenSoulBodyEarthUniverseStreetsBuildingComputerCrossesBreadChainsNosesSandControlledFactoriesToesSkullsRoaming Book:Philosophy: Who Needs It Source: Philosophy: Who Needs It
“In Miami they're building all these hideous monstrosities. It's just so easy to be an architect, once you've got the ability to do your computer drawings. They just knock off each other. There's nothing creative in any of them.” EasyAbilityCreativeBuildingComputerDrawingArchitectHideousMiamiMonstrosity Author:Barbara Hulanicki
“I am a little troubled about the tea service in the electronic computer building. Apparently the members of your staff consume several times as much supplies as the same number of people do in Fuld Hall and they have been especially unfair in the matter of sugar.... I should like to raise the question whether it would not be better for the computer people to come up to Fuld Hall at the end of the day at 5 o'clock and have their tea here under proper supervision.” PeopleShouldLittlesHas BeensEndsMatterNumbersBuildingMembersComputerRaisesCome UpTeaClockThe End Of The DayHallsSugarUnfairStaffSuppliesSupervision Author:John von Neumann
“If our hearts and minds are not properly transformed, we are like musicians playing untuned instruments, or engineers working with broken and ill-programmed computers. The attunement of the heart is essential to the outflow of grace...We must aim at building the structures of God's kingdom but recognized that we will only create these through the transformation of our experience. Concentration on reformation without revival leads to skins without wine; concentration on revival without reformation soon loses the wine for want of skins.” IfsWantMindHeartLosesGraceBuildingBrokenEssentialsComputerMusicianSkinsTransformationAimInstrumentsWineStructureIllKingdomsConcentrationTransformedEngineersHeart And MindRevivalReformation Author:Richard Lovelace
“When you say "bank," a bank is a building, a set of computers and chairs and things. The bankers are the people running these banks. They're the chief officers, and they push the loans because they don't care if they go bad. For one thing, they may package these bad loans and sell them off to gullible institutional investors.” PeopleIfsMayCareRunningOne ThingBuildingComputerSellsDon't CareChiefsChairsOfficersInvestorsLoanPackagesBankersGullible Author:Michael Hudson
“Sometimes I'm drawing onto a computer directly, sometimes I'm drawing on paper , so I can't really talk about drafts. It's just like having soft clay until it hardens. At least as much of the problem has to do with the decisions of what to represent, how to represent that, and how to reduce it down. The words in the balloons aren't particularly poetic necessarily, but it has the same problem as poetry, which is that one has to do great reduction. And if I tried to draw everything, you'd just have a tangled mess of a picture. The stripping down takes much longer than building up.” SometimesProblemDecisionBuildingComputerMessPoeticTangled Author:Art Spiegelman
“We're into the era of desktop bureaucracy, where people sit at computers building websites and analyzing data rather than listening or reading.” PeopleReadingBuildingListeningComputerBureaucracyWebsite Author:Robert Bringhurst
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.” LifeGivingShouldWritingHumansProblemMotivationalAbleScienceOrderDiesCultureFightingHuman BeingsKnowledgeLearningPlansAdviceDyingDesignBuildingWallBalanceComfortComputerProgramAccountsManagementAtheistSolveBonesShipsCooksMealsInsectsEquationsBadassInvasionSonnetButchersDiapersHogManureSpecializationTastyStranger In A Strange LandRenaissance Man Author:Robert A. Heinlein
“Sign by elevator put up by computer geeks in office building: REMEMBER: FIRST YOU PILAGE, THEN YOU BURN. THOSE WHO DO NOT COMPLY WILL BE SUSPENDED FROM THE RAIDING TEAM. In Mr Perfect” FirstsRememberPerfectTeamBuildingOfficeComputerGeekElevatorsSuspendedOffice BuildingsRaidingMr Perfect Author:Linda Howard
“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.” SuccessLeadershipLinesTechnologyProgressBuildingTrustComputerWeightCodeProgrammingProgrammersComputer ProgrammingComputer ScienceProgramming LanguagesMeasuringAircraftComputer LanguageDevelopersSoftware DesignComputer ProgrammersSoftware DevelopmentProgramming FunnyComputer SystemsComputer HackingCode Quality Author:Bill Gates