“When developers of digital technologies design a program that requires you to interact with a computer as if it were a person, they ask you to accept in some corner of your brain that you might also be conceived of as a program.” IfsPersonsMightAsksBrainAcceptingTechnologyDesignComputerProgramCornersDigitalArtificial IntelligenceDevelopersDigital Technology Book:You Are Not a Gadget Source: You Are Not a Gadget
“The humanitarian developers behind World of Warcraft have also discovered a way to bribe gamers into turning off their computers and going outside. If you log off for a few days, your character will be more rested when you resume playing, a mode that temporarily speeds up your leveling.” IfsWorldWayCharacterBehindsComputerSpeedHumanitarianResumesGamerBribeDevelopersWorld Of Warcraft Author:Clive Thompson
“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
“When you develop software, the people who write the software, the developers are the key group but the testers also play an absolutely critical role. They're the ones who ah, write thousands and thousands of examples and make sure that it's going to work on all the different computers and printers and the different amounts of memory or networks that the software'11 be used in. That's a very hard job.” PeopleWritingDifferentHardPlayJobsUsedMemoriesRolesGroupsExampleKeysAmountComputerCriticalSoftwareGoing To WorkDevelopersPrinterTesters Author:Bill Gates
“You know that Estonia, based largely on how successful Skype was, built by Estonian developers, that was a tenth of the entire country's GDP when eBay bought it. That was like a decade ago, it was f****** Estonia, they were behind the Iron Curtain two decades earlier. They're now pushing for K-12 education in computer science in public schools. They've gotten the message. They know how much value that can bring.” KnowsTwoCountrySchoolValuesBehindsKnow HowSuccessfulComputerMessagesBuiltDecadesIronPushingCurtainsPublic SchoolComputer ScienceDevelopersGdpEbaySkypeIron CurtainEstoniaEstonians Author:Alexis Ohanian
“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