“I am, of course, a frustrated rock star - I'd much rather be a rock star than a writer. Or own a record shop. Still, it's not a bad life, is it? You just sit at a computer and make stuff up.” StillsLife IsCoursesStarsStuffRecordsRocksComputerShopsFrustratedRock StarBad Life Author:Ian Rankin
“When I came back from Pakistan, I wanted to take computer classes nearby. I asked my brother. I was in my home, cooking for my family, and all our relatives and guests. But I said, "I want to live my life as a woman, but I want to study." But, he told me, "Just study at home, you don't need to go out." He said, "If you go to the courses, what will our relatives say? They will lose respect for us." They told me, "We know you're feeling different, but we cannot do anything about it."” IfsKnowsWantNeedsSaidDifferentFeelingsHomeWantedCoursesLosesClassStudyBrotherComputerMy FamilyCookingMy BrotherGuestsLiving My LifePakistanHome Cooking Author:Malina Suliman
“Computer programmers, biotechnologists, environmental scientists, neuroscientists, nanotech engineers - all of these fields, and more, should have at least a course in ethics as part of their degree requirements.” ShouldCoursesFieldsDegreesComputerEthicsShould HaveScientistEnvironmentalEngineersRequirementsProgrammersComputer Programmers Author:Jamais Cascio
“It seems like I always wrote, I just didn't think of it as a career choice. I just liked to tell stories ... to myself, to pen pals (I had a lot of them, all over the world). Of course this was in the days before computers were everywhere, and anyone could access the Web. You had to make an effort keeping up a correspondence, and the arrival of the mail once a day was a big deal. I think if modern technology had been around when I was a kid, I would never have left my bedroom except to take the dogs out for their run three times a day.” IfsThinkingWorldStoriesBigsSeemsRunningKidsChoicesThreeCoursesLeftDealsEffortCareersTechnologyModernDogComputerAccessPensMailBedroomThree TimesBig DealArrivalsCorrespondencePalsModern TechnologyCareers Choices Author:Charles de Lint
“Who do you suppose invented computers? Speaking in terms relevant to you, in terms of earth history, let alone other worldly history, the computer, of course, came from Atlantis.” EarthCoursesTermComputerAncientRelevantWorldlyAncient EgyptAtlantis Author:Frederick Lenz
“Some claim that computers will, by 2050, achieve human capabilities. Of course, in some respects they already have.” HumansCoursesAchieveComputerClaimsCapability Author:Martin Rees
“I never took a computer science course in college, because then it was a thing you just learned on your own.” CoursesCollegeComputerComputer Science Author:Mitchel Resnick
“You feel as if you're not living a full life. Which, of course, is why - it's my theory about why so many people who are heavily into computers are also into extreme sports and S&M. It's because their bodies are crying out for some kind of action.” PeopleIfsFeelsKindBodyActionCoursesSportsCryTheoryComputerExtremesFull LifeExtreme Sports Author:Brian Eno
“... the thing that's happening today vis-á-vis computer imaging, vis-á-vis alteration, is that it no longer needs to be based on the real at all. I don't want to get into jargon - let's just say that photography to me no longer pertains to the rhetoric of realism; it pertains more perhaps to the rhetoric of the unreal rather than the real or of course the hyperreal.” WantNeedsRealTodayCoursesComputerPhotographyHappeningsRealismRhetoricUnrealJargonAlterationsImaging Author:Barbara Kruger
“... the reason we think that computer graphics technology has succeeded in faking reality is that we, over the course of the last hundred and fifty years, have come to accept the image of photography and film as reality.” ThinkingYearsReasonRealityLastsFilmCoursesAcceptingTechnologyComputerPhotographyHundredFiftyPhotography And FilmComputer Graphics Author:Lev Manovich
“... what is faked [by the computerization of image-making], of course, is not reality, but photographic reality, reality as seen by the camera lens. In other words, what computer graphics have (almost) achieved is not realism, but rather only photorealism - the ability to fake not our perceptual and bodily experience of reality but only its photographic image.” RealityCoursesAbilityComputerCamerasFakeRealismLensesCamera LensesComputer Graphics Author:Lev Manovich
“Before, the myth of photography doesn't lie was used in order to cover up tricks. If I [make a] portrait [of] you, accommodate you, illuminate you, put make up on you or use a filter, am I not manipulating reality? The only difference is that now I can do it from the computer in the postclick instead of the preclick. If I decide to photograph something instead of something else, I also manipulate reality. Of course a photograph can lie or commit abuse, but it always could.” IfsI CanUseRealityUsedLyingOrderCoursesCan DoDifferencesComputerPhotographyAbusePhotographMythTricksCommitPortraitsManipulateFiltersAccommodateI Can Do ItCover Ups Author:Pedro Meyer
“Similarly, computer literacy courses tend to produce computer people who know a lot about computers or a piece of software but they don't help people become fluent with the machine.” PeopleKnowsHelpingCoursesPiecesProduceComputerMachinesSoftwareLiteracyFluentComputer Literacy Author:Seymour Papert
“What distinguishes a human being from a computer? The ability to add up numbers? The ability to understand language? The ability to be logical? It is, of course, none of the above. It is the ability to play. Computers cannot have fun. They cannot fantasize. They cannot dream, they cannot experience emotion or summon intuition. These rare, precious qualities come naturally to every child on this earth yet they tend to be seen, by well meaning adults, as faults, foibles and failings. In pushing tiny toddlers to 'perform', we rob them of the ability to imagine.” HumansWellsChildrenPlayDreamEarthCoursesLanguageFunHuman BeingsAbilityNumbersEmotionQualityImagineFailingComputerAdultsAddFaultsIntuitionTinyHaving FunPushingLogicalToddlerFoibles Author:Jonathan Cainer
“If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backward 10 years later.” IfsYearsMightCoursesClassClearWonderfulImpossibleCollegeComputerWindowMultipleLooking BackLooking ForwardDotsMacsTypographyConnecting The DotsStanford UniversityFontsCalligraphyDropping OutPersonal ComputersTypefaces Author:Steve Jobs
“I think of myself as experimenting with different ways of structuring pieces. A lot of it has to do with the computer, of course.” ThinkingWayDifferentCoursesPiecesComputerDifferent Ways Author:Paul Lansky
“I obviously use computers. My car is wondrous. My phone is amazing. I've already talked about the music I'm digitizing. Technology is fantastic, of course.” UseCoursesTechnologyCarComputerPhonesFantasticWondrous Author:Ian MacKaye
“One of the things that always drives any practitioner of journalism crazy is you'll run it people who say why doesn't the media cover this or that? Well of course the media covered it. Why didn't you read about it? And, you know, it's, you know, there you are, it's not the journalist's job to knock down your door, you know, punch the URL into your computer and force you to stop watching the Kardashians and to read, you know, a report on integrity in government instead, it's your job.” PeopleKnowsWellsGovernmentRunningJobsCoursesForceDoorsCrazyMediaIntegrityComputerJournalismJournalistReportsCovered Author:David Frum
“We are lucky in the United States to have our liberal arts system. In most countries, if you go to university, you have to decide for all English literature or no literature, all philosophy or no philosophy. But we have a system that is one part general education and one part specialization. If your parents say you've got to major in computer science, you can do that. But you can also take general education courses in the humanities, and usually you have to.” IfsArtCountryStatesPhilosophyHumanityCoursesLiteratureParentCan DoUnitedUnited StatesLuckyComputerMajorsUniversityComputer ScienceEnglish LiteratureSpecializationLiberal ArtsGeneral Education Author:Martha C. Nussbaum
“Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.” MeanStatesScienceCoursesSinNumbersInternetComputer Author:John von Neumann
“I use many different gadgets connected with computers; I use PCs, laptops and a Palm Pilot. I also use the Internet to visit websites, especially within Polish-language Internet. I usually go to political discussion groups and sites - of course, as I use my real name, people never believe that they are chatting with me!” PeopleBelieveDifferentRealUsePoliticalCoursesNamesLanguageGroupsInternetComputerConnectedDiscussionPilotsSitePalmsPolishWebsiteLaptopsGadgetsChatting Author:Lech Walesa
“Through the computer, the heralds say, we will make education better, religion better, politics better, our minds better — best of all, ourselves better. This is, of course, nonsense, and only the young or the ignorant or the foolish could believe it.” MindBelieveYoungCoursesComputerFoolishIgnorantNonsense Author:Neil Postman
“The moral of the story is we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around.” PeopleKnowsStoriesCareEarthMovingCoursesRealizingAnimalMoralComputerDancingDon't CareFartMoral Of The Story Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them.” IfsCoursesCollegeComputerWindowMultipleMacsConnecting The DotsStanford UniversityFontsCalligraphyPersonal ComputersTypefacesMultiple Jobs Author:Steve Jobs
“~I don't always have a lot of energy, but my kids almost always revitalize me. Of course like any working mom, sometimes I'm guilt-ridden. I think I should be sitting down doing an educational computer game with Carrie or taking Ellie to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. These kids are such sponges, and I should be taking advantage of that.~” ThinkingShouldArtSometimesKidsCoursesGamesEnergyMomComputerSittingAdvantageGuiltParentingEducationalCarrieMuseumsSitting DownSpongesTaking AdvantageMetropolitanWorking MomComputer GamesMetropolitan Museum Of Art Author:Katie Couric