“I was lucky to get into computers when it was a very young and idealistic industry. There weren't many degrees offered in computer science, so people in computers were brilliant people from mathematics, physics, music, zoology, whatever. They loved it, and no one was really in it for the money.” PeopleYoungIndustryLuckyDegreesComputerMathematicsBrilliantPhysicsComputer ScienceIdealisticZoology Author:Steve Jobs
“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
“With nine degrees of warming, computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish. Water supply to the Murray-Darling Basin will fall by half, severely curtailing food production.” LooksFallWaterHalfDegreesComputerProjectsModelsProductionsDisasterNineAustraliaDarlingHabitatFood ProductionVertebratesDisaster Movie Author:Jeff Goodell
“I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. I've heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.” LittlesI CanHeardDegreesComputerTrainingProgramUniversityThese DaysFacultyComplaintsComputer ScienceJavaStanfordUndergraduateStanford UniversityVocational Training Author:Alan Kay
“I graduated from college with a 3.92 GPA with a degree in computer programming and a BFA in fine arts and animation. My first job was painting a mural in the Grimaldis in Queens.” FirstsArtJobsCollegePaintingFineDegreesComputerQueensProgrammingAnimationFine ArtsComputer ProgrammingMuralGpa Author:JWoww
“I think people always appreciate somebody else's informed educated opinion. To the degree that anybody with a computer can offer a journalistic point of view whether or not they have a degree, it sort of alters the validity of you have to place on anyone's individual comment.” PeopleThinkingIndividualViewsOpinionOffersDegreesComputerAppreciatePoint Of ViewEducatedCommentValidityJournalistic Author:Seth Green
“The Hacker Ethic: Access to computers--and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works--should be unlimited and total. Always yield to the Hands-On Imperative! All information should be free. Mistrust authority--promote decentralization. Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not bogus criteria such as degrees, age, race, or position. You can create art and beauty on a computer. Computers can change your life for the better.” WorldWayShouldArtHandsMightAgeRaceTeachInformationPositionDegreesAuthorityComputerEthicsAccessYieldJudgedUnlimitedChanging Your LifeImperativesCriteriaMistrustHackingHackersDecentralization Author:Steven Levy
“One of the computer models for a four degree temperature rise would give rise to a 10 degree temperature rise in Africa. And bear in mind also that in the depth of an ice age the mean temperature drop compared to the present was five degrees.” GivingMindMeanAgeFiveFourBearsDegreesComputerModelsDepthIceTemperatureIce Age Author:Martin Rees
“Let's also make sure that a high school diploma puts our kids on a path to a good job. Right now, countries like Germany focus on graduating their high school students with the equivalent of a technical degree from one of our community colleges, so that they're ready for a job. At schools like P-TECh in Brooklyn ... students will graduate with a high school diploma and an associate degree in computers or engineering. We need to give every American student opportunities like this.” NeedsGivingCountryKidsSchoolJobsOpportunityCommunityPathFocusStudentsCollegeReadyRight NowDegreesComputerHigh SchoolGermanyGraduatesEngineeringAssociatesGood JobBrooklynOur CommunityDiplomaCommunity CollegeHigh School StudentsHigh School Diploma Author:Barack Obama
“I have a CS degree and a history that includes working as a software developer and being a computer magazine columnist back during the 1990s. I guess I simply paid attention to the social effects of the IT revolution as I lived through it.” SocialAttentionEffectsRevolutionDegreesComputerPaidMagazinesSoftwareDevelopersColumnists Author:Charles Stross
“I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.” I CanDegreesComputerTrainingThese DaysComputer ScienceJavaUndergraduateVocational Training Author:Alan Kay
“I have a degree in finance and these things kind of all go beyond me in a sense. I have a degree from a long time ago before computers.” KindLongDegreesComputerLong TimeFinanceLong Time Ago Author:Chris Henchy
“Computer images, like camera images today, will be seen as representations of a simulated, second-degree reality with little or no connection to the unmediated world. This is one lesson we can learn from photographs, and especially from those of the last 25 years: images exist not to be believed, but to be interrogated.” WorldYearsLittlesRealityTodayLastsLessonsDegreesComputerConnectionsCamerasPhotographRepresentation Author:Andy Grundberg
“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
“The first thing to note is that pornography and many abductions occur apart from the use of computers, and that most child abuse happens within the family. So I think the extra degree of danger that computers pose doesn't justify the frenzy.” ThinkingFirstsChildrenUseHappensDangerDegreesComputerAbuseNotesExtrasJustifyChild AbusePornographyFrenzyAbduction Author:Seymour Papert