“Professor Wilkes is best known as the builder and designer of the EDSAC, the first computer with an internally stored program. Built in 1949, the EDSAC used a mercury delay line memory. He is also known as the author, with Wheeler and Gill, of a volume on "Preparation of Programs for Electronic Digital Computers" in 1951, in which program libraries were effectively introduced.” FirstsUsedLinesMemoriesKnownComputerBuiltProgramLibraryPreparationDesignerDigitalProfessorsVolumeDelayBuilderMercury Author:Maurice Wilkes
“Astronomy is so easy to love. ... Fairly or not, physics is associated with nuclear bombs and nuclear waste, chemistry with pesticides, biology with Frankenfood and designer-gene superbabies. But astronomers are like responsible ecotourists, squinting at the scenery through high-quality optical devices, taking nothing but images that may be computer-enhanced for public distribution, leaving nothing but a few Land Rover footprints on faraway Martian soil, and OK, OK, maybe the Land Rover, too.” MayScienceEasyQualityLandWasteComputerResponsibleLeavingNuclearPhysicsAstronomyDesignerSoilBombsBiologyDevicesChemistryGenesDistributionFootprintSceneryHigh QualityAstronomersNuclear BombMartiansPesticidesNuclear WasteSquinting Author:Natalie Angier
“My computer is a very complex gadget and it was designed by many designers, so why must the universe have only a single designer and not many designers?” UniverseComputerComplexesDesignerGadgets Author:Richard Dawkins
“If you view computer designers as artists, they're really into more of an art form that can be mass-produced, like records, or like prints, than they are into fine arts. They want something where they can express themselves to a large number of people through their medium, and their medium is technology and manufacturing.” PeopleIfsWantArtFormArtistViewsNumbersTechnologyRecordsFineComputerMassMediumsDesignerPrintWant SomethingManufacturingFine ArtsLarge Numbers Author:Steve Jobs
“I met designers that are in the business for ten years in the movies, and their biggest complaint is things don't look anything like they were designed. Look at my drawing! But nobody ever sees the drawing, that's the thing. So I knew right from the beginning that I would design everything in 3D on my computer, and those models literally went to the machines. So every little radius on most of the vehicles you see there, I built with my mouse and keyboard.” YearsLooksLittlesDesignMetsTenComputerModelsBuiltMachinesDrawingDesignerVehicleMiceComplaintsKeyboardsRadius Author:Daniel Simon
“Target for example, is just a dot with a circle around it, that's all it is, so if you want a logo like Target, you don't need to hire a designer, you barely need to know how to operate a computer program, the logo may as well be anything.” IfsKnowsWantNeedsWellsMayKnow HowExampleComputerProgramCirclesDesignerTargetDotsLogos Author:Michael Bierut
“I think once the artistic world of the type designer merged with the scientific world of the computer programmer, you began to see this crossover.” ThinkingWorldTypeComputerArtisticDesignerProgrammersComputer ProgrammersCrossover Author:Michael Bierut
“One of the best things I ever did was to train in a practical skill. I love computers and they've become such a part of life, especially to the world of design. But it's important to understand that they are a tool, as much as a hammer or a saw is a tool. Computers don't help you design. There needs to be more emphasis on training young designers in how to build things. A good writer needs a good vocabulary. A good designer needs to understand his materials and processes. You can't, as a successful designer, pretend to get any respect if you don't know how things are made.” WorldImportantHelpingSuccessfulDesignComputerTrainingTrainDesignerGood Design Author:Marc Newson
“You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.” WorkTechnologyDesignComputerSpeedEnormousDesignerGraphic DesignGood DesignGraphic ArtistGraphic DesignerInspirational DesignInspirational Graphic DesignGraphic Design InspirationFunny Graphic DesignDesign WorkComputer Graphics Author:Wim Crouwel