“I continue to meet people who have had their Web pages hijacked, their browsers corrupted, in some cases, their children exposed to inappropriate material from these dangerous programs hidden in their family computers.” PeopleChildrenCasesDangerousMaterialsComputerPagesProgramExposedInappropriateBrowsersWeb Page Author:Cliff Stearns
“Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically. A good example is digital technology where today's cell phones are far more powerful than the computers on the Apollo Command Module and Lunar Module that we used to navigate to the moon and operate all the spacecraft control systems.” TodayUsedSpacePowerfulCasesTechnologyExampleChangedMoonComputerPhonesCommandCellsDigitalApolloCell PhoneNavigateGood ExamplesSpacecraftDigital Technology Author:Neil Armstrong
“A file-sharing service and a hedge fund are essentially the same things. In both cases, there's this idea that whoever has the biggest computer can analyze everyone else to their advantage and concentrate wealth and power. It's shrinking the overall economy. I think it's the mistake of our age.” ThinkingIdeasAgeWealthMistakeCasesEconomyComputerAdvantageFundFilesShrinkingHedge FundFile Sharing Author:Jaron Lanier
“In case you're not a computer person, I should probably point out that 'Real Soon Now' is a technical term meaning 'sometime before the heat-death of the universe, maybe'.” ShouldPersonsRealUniverseTermCasesComputerHeat Author:Scott Fahlman
“Fertilizer played a greater role in this case than computers.” RolesCasesGreaterInternetComputerFree SpeechFertilizer Author:Mike Godwin
“Computer monitors can operate in many different video modes. In most cases, the decision about how many pixels and colors to display is yours - but not always.” DifferentDecisionCasesColorComputerVideoDisplayPixels Author:Charles Petzold
“I've noticed that nowadays I'm doing a lot of stuff on the phone and on the computer, which I usually wouldn't do earlier. And I can feel my brain being rewired: I'm getting anxious, I'm getting more manic. Now, I'm an extreme case because I'm old and I'm overdoing it. But still, it's really interesting that I can actually feel a change in my neurochemistry from this interaction with the technology.” FeelsStillsI CanStuffInterestingBrainCasesTechnologyComputerPhonesExtremesAnxiousInteractionReally InterestingManicOverdoing It Author:George Saunders
“I write fiction longhand. That's not so much about rejecting technology as being unable to write fiction on a computer for some reason. I don't think I would write it on a typewriter either. I write in a very blind gut instinctive way. It just doesn't feel right. There's a physical connection. And then in nonfiction that's not the case at all. I can't even imagine writing nonfiction by hand.” ThinkingWayFeelsWritingI CanReasonHandsFictionCasesTechnologyImagineComputerConnectionsBlindGutsNonfictionTypewritersFeels RightRejectingWriting Nonfiction Author:Jennifer Egan
“Letting agencies are unregulated. They charge a search fee, which in some cases can run into several hundred pounds, but the search consists of no more than checking through a computer database to see whether they have any properties for that person.” PersonsRunningCasesComputerHundredPropertyAgencyPoundsFeesDatabases Author:Jeremy Corbyn
“India just went 3 years with no cases [of polio]. Pakistan is our toughest location right now because some parts of the Taliban have not allowed vaccinators to come in and have even attacked vaccinators. We are hopeful this will get resolved since no one wants their kid to be paralyzed. I spend a lot of time making sure the polio campaign is doing the best it can. We have great computer models that help guide our activities.” WantYearsHelpingKidsCasesRight NowActivityComputerModelsIndiaGuidesCampaignsHopefulLocationPakistanTalibanParalyzedPolio Author:Bill Gates
“Collections are certainly abundant online. It's complicated, because it's not like these people didn't want computers, although there was some nonchalance about it. I would sometimes ask the people I interviewed if they wished they had a computer, and in a lot of cases, it was like they couldn't process the question. You don't know what you don't have, I guess.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantSometimesAsksProcessCasesComputerComplicatedCollectionsOnlineNonchalance Author:Miranda July
“Let's reuse whatever we have now, stop making more of it, take what we gather, and make - whether it's car parts, computer cases, anything that we can use.” UseCasesCarComputerReuse Author:Ian Somerhalder
“My children threw me a life line: "Return to your roots - food - and rewrite your first book, Diet for a Small Planet." I learned that if I could just show up, in this case, if I could just get myself out of bed, get to the computer in my tiny office at MIT, and start writing, help would start arriving.” IfsWritingFirstsChildrenBookHelpingShowsLinesCasesPlanetsReturnBedOfficeComputerRootsTinyMy ChildrenDietsIf I CouldArrivingMitLife Line Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“I was asked by an editor to consider writing something about an American inventor. I asked him if he knew who invented the computer. He said he didn't. In that case, I told him, I should write a book about John Vincent Atanasoff.” IfsShouldWritingSaidBookCasesComputerEditorsInventor Author:Jane Smiley
“And don’t worry.” Bob, Carter’s best man and colleague, held up a notebook computer. “I’ve got it handled on this end. And I memorized the vows just in case he needs me to throw him a line.” “You’re a treasure, Bob.” She waited until she was out of earshot to laugh.” MenNeedsEndsLinesCasesWorryLaughingComputerTreasureBobColleaguesVowNotebookCarter Book:Happy Ever After Source: Happy Ever After