“The traditions of Hollywood are grand and great and are going to survive forever, in a way. But they're not going to be the only way for much longer. The technology is such now that you don't have to have millions of dollars to make a movie. You can make one with a computer.” WayMillionsTechnologyForeverComputerTraditionHollywoodDollars Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“John Sculley ruined Apple and he ruined it by bringing a set of values to the top of Apple which were corrupt and corrupted some of the top people who were there, drove out some of the ones who were not corruptible, and brought in more corrupt ones and paid themselves collectively tens of millions of dollars and cared more about their own glory and wealth than they did about what built Apple in the first place which was making great computers for people to use.” PeopleFirstsUseValuesWealthMillionsComputerGloryBuiltPaidDollarsApplesRuined Author:Steve Jobs
“Today, no one would dispute that information technology has become the backbone of commerce. It underpins the operations of individual companies, ties together far-flung supply chains, and, increasingly, links businesses to the customers they serve. Hardly a dollar or a euro changes hands anymore without the aid of computer systems.” HandsTodayTogetherIndividualCompanyTechnologyInformationComputerDollarsCustomersAidsChainsOperationsTiesLinksCommerceDisputesBackboneInformation TechnologyEuroSupply ChainComputer Systems Author:Nicholas G. Carr
“Why is it that I notice so many brilliant scientists using Macs for their personal computers; why does the Lawrence Livermore & Berkeley Labs buy millions of dollars worth of Macs?” DoeMillionsComputerScientistDollarsBrilliantLabsMacsBerkeleyPersonal Computers Author:Lene
“I like the aspect of technology. For me to spin the way I do, I would have to carry five crates of records with me everywhere I go, which in this day and age would be like two hundred extra dollars in baggage fees. All I need now is a hard drive and a computer and I can rock anywhere in the world.” WorldWayNeedsI CanTwoHardWould BeAgeTechnologyRecordsFiveRocksComputerHundredAspectDollarsExtrasThis DayBaggageFees Author:Neil Armstrong
“We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars' worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs. It doesn't take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.” PeopleHomeJobsHumanityUniverseWealthPaySupportCarComputerDollarsSpendingBusStay At HomePetroleum Book:Critical Path Source: Critical Path
“I think about the period of, like, the '70s and early '80s where nobody had money to make big movies and there was no CGI or anything like that and people had to get super creative. And then, you know, when you've got somebody who can paint you any picture on a computer and you get hundreds of millions of dollars to make a movie, its almost like the creativity diminishes somewhat.” PeopleThinkingKnowsBigsCreativityMillionsCreativePeriodsComputerDollarsPaintDiminish80sBig MovieCgi Author:Ethan Suplee
“A company can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on firewalls, intrusion detection systems and encryption and other security technologies, but if an attacker can call one trusted person within the company, and that person complies, and if the attacker gets in, then all that money spent on technology is essentially wasted.” IfsPersonsMoneyCompanyTechnologySecurityCallingWasteComputerHundredSafetyDollarsTrustedAttackingHackersIntrusionDetectionEncryptionComplying Author:Kevin Mitnick