“Indeed, being a beginner is very difficult right now. Book publishers are in a crisis, sales are dwindling, and publishing houses are losing money, doing their best to survive. It's a sign of the times, the emergence of new kinds of entertainment -- there's nothing we can do about it. I don't think books will perish for good. They could become less widespread, though, falling even further behind movies and computer games. But we shouldn't be afraid of this, because books will always remain the entertainment of choice for intelligent people, of whom there are still many in this world.” PeopleThinkingWorldKindStillsBookChoicesFallGamesHouseDifficultCan DoBehindsThis WorldRight NowComputerLosingIntelligentCrisisEntertainmentPublishingPublishersEmergenceBeginnersComputer GamesLosing MoneyPublishing House Author:Sergei Lukyanenko
“I still find it absurdly difficult to concentrate on a novel if there's a phone or computer to hand; I have taken to locking them outside the room like noisy pets.” IfsStillsHandsDifficultRoomsNovelTakenComputerPhonesPetNoisy Author:David Nicholls
“Children are not being assaulted by images that appear on a computer screen. Any Internet user knows it is quite difficult to stumble across pornography.” KnowsChildrenDifficultInternetComputerScreensUsersFree SpeechPornographyComputer ScreenInternet Users Author:Russ Feingold
“I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one's memories.” ThinkingWould BeRunningDifficultMemoriesBrainConsciousnessComputerProgramCeaseTurned OffNeural Networks Author:Stephen Hawking
“Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.” LawScienceLiteratureDifficultComputerIncreaseProgrammingSoftwareProgrammersComputer ProgrammingProgramming LanguagesComputer LanguageEntropySoftware DesignThermodynamicsComputer Software Author:Norman Ralph Augustine
“The reason I was able to give up smoking was because of the computer. You couldn't lean a cigarette on a computer, like you could on a typewriter. So it just made it that much more difficult to smoke. So I quit.” GivingMadeReasonAbleDifficultLike YouGiving UpComputerQuittingMade ItSmokeSmokingCigaretteTypewritersI QuitGiving Up Smoking Author:Robert Stone
“It may be true that encryption makes certain investigations of crime more difficult. It can close down certain investigative techniques or make it harder to get access to certain kinds of electronic evidence. But it also prevents crime by making our computers, our infrastructure, our medical records, our financial records, more robust against criminals. It prevents crime.” KindMayCertainDifficultRecordsCrimeComputerEvidenceHarderFinancialTechniqueCriminalsAccessMedicalBeing TrueInvestigationInfrastructureRobustEncryptionMedical Records Author:Matt Blaze
“Adults have been brainwashed into thinking that they can't really learn about computers without being taught, so it's more difficult for them to feel comfortable with a computer. Deep down, I think they're afraid of learning about computers.” ThinkingFeelsHas BeensDifficultTaughtComfortableComputerAdultsDeep DownBrainwashed Author:Seymour Papert
“Last time I was recording, I was trying to loop on the computer, but it's really difficult because it's really different from looping on hardware.” TryingDifferentLastsDifficultComputerLast TimeLoopsHardware Author:Julia Kent
“Imagine being able to make it difficult for an ISIS commander to talk to his fighters in the field just by placing a piece of malware on his computer network.” AbleDifficultPiecesImagineFieldsComputerFighterIsisCommanders Author:Dina Temple-Raston
“In the first earthquake scene [ in "2012"], there was only a limo and a plane. That was it. There was nothing else there, so everything had to be created in the computer, and that's always very difficult.” FirstsDifficultSceneComputerPlanesEarthquakesLimos Author:Roland Emmerich
“The changes are coming so quickly it's been difficult for workers to retrain themselves and for entrepreneurs to figure out where the next opportunities may be. The catalyst is something called computer learning or artificial intelligence - the ability to feed massive amounts of data into supercomputers and program them to teach themselves and improve their performance.” MayNextOpportunityDifficultAbilityTeachFiguresAmountComputerProgramPerformancesEntrepreneurWorkersDataMassiveArtificial IntelligenceArtificialCatalystSupercomputers Author:Andrew McAfee
“Many people who have lost out in the last few decades voted for Trump. Trump will have a difficult time turning them into winners. The jobs of these people are not at risk because of Chinese or Mexican workers, but because of robots and computers. And new trade barriers and higher tariffs are not going to change that.” PeopleJobsLastsLostDifficultRiskTrumpHigherComputerTradeWorkersDecadesChineseWinnerBarriersRobotsMexicanDifficult TimesTariffs Author:Nicholas Bloom
“All experiments that are related to the games when you have humans versus machines in the games - whether it's chess or "Go" or any other game - machines will prevail not because they can solve the game. Chess is mathematically unsolvable. But at the end of the day, the machine doesn't have to solve the game. The machine has to win the game. And to win the game, it just has to make fewer mistakes than humans. Which is not that difficult since humans are humans and vulnerable, and we don't have the same steady hand as the computer.” WinningDifficultMistakeComputerChessVulnerableSteady Author:Garry Kasparov