“Every disruptive innovation is powered by a simplifying technology, and then the technology has to get embedded in a different kind of a business model. The first two decades of digital computing were characterized by the huge mainframe computers that filled a whole room, and they had to be operated by PhD Computer Scientists. It took the engineers at IBM about four years to design these mainframe computers because there were no rules. It was an intuitive art and just by trial and error and experimentation they would evolve to a computer that worked.” KindArtDifferentTechnologyDesignComputerScientistInnovationEvolveDifferent KindsExperimentationEmbeddedIbm Author:Clayton Christensen
“The personal computer was a disruptive innovation relative to the mainframe because it enabled even a poor fool like me to have a computer and use it, and it was enabled by the development of the micro processor. The micro processor made it so simple to design and build a computer that IB could throw in together in a garage. And so, you have that simplifying technology as a part of every disruptive innovation. It then becomes an innovation when the technology is embedded in a different business model that can take the simplified solution to the market in a cost-effective way.” DifferentTogetherSimplePoorTechnologyDesignFoolComputerSolutionsInnovationRelativeGarageEmbedded Author:Clayton Christensen
“What specialists try to do is get at least three imaging processes that are totally different from each other. Then you can run these through a computer program and make a composite image. In one scenario you suspect a brain tumor, so you image the brain tumor with PET scans, MRIs, and CT scans and create a 3D model. The doctor opens up the skull to excise the cancer, but they can't see anything. Do you cut out what's supposed to be in that spot or not? The current story is yes, you believe the images over what you see with your eyes.” TryingBelieveDifferentEyeRunningBrainCuttingComputerProgramCancerPet Author:Don Ihde
“There's a different physiology happening between the sound waves and the body that doesn't happen with music playing off the computer. About five years ago, I got a turntable that hooks up to your computer, and I put the vinyl in there and I listened to it back-to-back with a CD, and it didn't even compare. But people don't have time to go track down vinyl, lower it in, all that. And they probably don't care. It's hard to make music knowing that it's not going to be received by the listener in the way that it should be.” PeopleDifferentCareComputerWaveTrackCompareHookVinylHook Up Author:Beck
“I learned to work on a computer years before I was placed under house arrest. Fortunately I had two laptops when I was under house arrest - one an Apple and one a different operating system. I was very proud of that because I know how to use both systems.” KnowsYearsTwoDifferentUseHouseKnow HowProudComputerApplesLaptopsOperating SystemsHouse Arrest Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“I take computers practically apart and put them back together. I have a supercomputer I built over the years out of different computers.” YearsDifferentTogetherComputerBuiltBack TogetherSupercomputers Author:Jared Leto
“I've come to a view that humans will continue to do what we do well, and that computers will continue to do what they do very well, and the two will coexist, but in different spaces.” HumansWellsTwoDifferentSpaceViewsComputerCoexist Author:Eric Schmidt
“When we launched the WineLibrary website in 1996, I didn't even own a computer yet. I just understood that there was an opportunity here to market in a different way.” WayDifferentOpportunityComputerUnderstoodDifferent WaysWebsite Author:Gary Vaynerchuk
“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
“Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars on oil. All of these different things can be called technology. I have kind of a love-hate relationship with it, as I expect most people do. With the computer, I spend so many hours sitting in front of a computer.” PeopleKindDifferentLightRunningRomanceHateTermHoursTechnologyCarFrontsComputerSittingOilDifferent ThingsBroadsElectricLove HateLove Hate RelationshipElectric LightLove And Hate Relationship Author:Jeff Bridges
“People think that alien spaceships would be solid and made of metal and have lights all over them and move slowly through the sky because that is how we would build a spaceship if we were able to build one that big. But aliens, if they exist, would probably be very different from us. They might look like big slugs, or be flat like reflections. Or they might be bigger than planets. Or they might not have bodies at all. They might just be information, like in a computer. And their spaceships might look like clouds, or be made up of unconnected objects like dust or leaves.” PeopleIfsThinkingLooksMadeDifferentBodyBigsLightMightWould BeAbleMovingSkyInformationObjectsPlanetsComputerReflectionBiggerCloudsDustAliensFlatsMetalsSpaceshipsSlugs Author:Mark Haddon
“I have now seen sucrose beaches and water a very bright blue. I have seen an all-red leisure suit with flared lapels. I have smelled suntan lotion spread over 2,100 pounds of hot flesh. I have been addressed as "Mon" in three different nations. I have seen 500 upscale Americans dance the Electric Slide. I have seen sunsets that looked computer-enhanced. I have (very briefly) joined a conga line.” Has BeensDifferentThreeNationsWaterLinesComputerRedHotBlueSpreadFleshSuitsBeachSunsetPoundsLeisureElectricSlidesLotionCongas Author:David Foster Wallace
“Carmen sat up when she heard a familiar trill from her computer. It was an instant message from Bee. Beezy3: Packing. Do you have my purple sock with the heart on the ankle? Carmabelle: No. Like I'd wear your socks. Carmen looked from her computer screen down to her feet. To her dismay, her socks were two faintly different shades of purple. She rotated her foot to get a view of her anklebone. Carmabelle: Ahem. Might possibly have sock.” HeartTwoDifferentMightViewsHeardFeetComputerMessagesScreensFamiliarInstantSatShadeBeesPurpleSockAnklesPackingDismayComputer ScreenTrill Book:The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection
“Perhaps the central problem we face in all of computer science is how we are to get to the situation where we build on top of the work of others rather than redoing so much of it in a trivially different way.” WayDifferentProblemFacesScienceDifferencesSituationHard WorkComputerDifferent WaysComputer Science Author:Richard Hamming