“When I use a direct manipulation system whether for text editing, drawing pictures, or creating and playing games I do think of myself not as using a computer but as doing the particular task. The computer is, in effect, invisible. The point cannot be overstressed: make the computer system invisible.” ThinkingUseGamesEffectsParticularComputerCreatingTasksDirectDrawingInvisibleManipulationEditingPlaying GamesComputer SystemsDrawing Pictures Author:Donald A. Norman
“With the computer and programming languages, mathematics has newly-acquired tools, and its notation should be reviewed in the light of them. The computer may, in effect, be used as a patient, precise, and knowledgeable "native speaker" of mathematical notation.” ShouldMayLightUsedLanguageEffectsComputerToolsMathematicsPatientMathematicalProgrammingNativeSpeakersPreciseProgramming LanguagesKnowledgeable Author:Kenneth E. Iverson
“I think 'The Lost World' could've been a successful movie except for the fact that it pre-dated the good special effects and computer graphics.” ThinkingWorldFactsLostSuccessfulSpecialEffectsComputerSpecial EffectsComputer Graphics Author:John Rhys-Davies
“The biggest effect of the personal computer revolution has been to allow millions and millions of people to experience computers themselves decades before they ever would have in the old paradigm.” PeopleHas BeensMillionsEffectsRevolutionComputerDecadesParadigmPersonal Computers Author:Steve Jobs
“Both instruments are processors of information. Both appeared when nothing quite like them had existed before, and both began to make their effects felt immediately (a situation that isn't invariable with new technology). Both devices were less the result of a single breakthrough than of an evolving set of technologies. Like the computer, the printing press had no one certain inventor; it was a technology whose time had come.” CertainFeltResultsSituationTechnologyEffectsInformationComputerInstrumentsPressesEvolveDevicesBreakthroughInventorPrintingNew TechnologyPrinting PressProcessors Book:The Universal Machine: Confessions of a Technological Optimist Source: The Universal Machine: Confessions of a Technological Optimist
“I discovered what I call the Bill Gates effect. That is, the more successful you are, the uglier you get.” SuccessfulEffectsComputerBillsGates Author:Scott Adams
“It [moviemaking] is about entertaining audiences with great characters and great stories, you want to make people laugh, you want to make people cry, you want to have great music that is memorable. You want a movie that, as soon as it's over, you want to watch it again, just like that. That's what it is, whether it's live-action, animation, hand drawn, computer, special effects, puppet animation, it doesn't matter. That's the goal of a filmmaker.” PeopleWantMatterCharacterStoriesHandsActionGoalWatchesAudienceLaughingSpecialEffectsCryComputerMemorableFilmmakerOver YouEntertainingAnimationMaking People LaughPuppetsGreat MusicGreat CharacterSpecial Effects Author:John Lasseter
“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
“What can you say about a man who leaps from a helicopter over Manhattan without a parachute in the hope that by increasing his heart rate he'll transform into an iridescent lime-green behemoth so he can take on an even bigger behemoth? That he knows he's living in a computer-generated universe in which gravity is a feeble suggestion and nothing is remotely at stake, and that when he hits the ground he'll be replaced by a special effect. The Incredible Hulk is weightless-as disposable as an Xbox game.” KnowsMenHeartUniverseGamesSpecialEffectsComputerBiggerGreenRateIncrediblesLeapStakesGravityReplacedSuggestionsManhattanHelicoptersSpecial EffectsDisposableParachutesLimesXboxHeart RateIridescentBehemothIncredible HulkLime Green Author:David Edelstein
“When I was in architecture school, rather than giving us drafting boards and t-squares and lead pencils and stuff they gave us all the same tools that places like Digital Domain and ILM used to make features films or special effects. They gave us all these digital tools like Alias and Mya and Soft Image and all these kind of high-end computers, so I came out of architecture school knowing how to use all that stuff. And I started making short films at night.” GivingKindEndsUseSchoolFilmUsedNightStuffKnowingSpecialEffectsComputerToolsArchitectureFeaturesBoardsDigitalSquaresPencilsDomainSpecial EffectsShort FilmsDraftingAliasesArchitecture SchoolDigital Tools Author:Joseph Kosinski
“Today, with computer-generated visual effects, everything is possible. So we've seen everything. If it can be imagined, it can be put on screen.” IfsTodayEffectsComputerScreensVisualsVisual Effects Author:Gabriel Campisi
“I get nervous about the effect that the high speed of everything will have on creativity. It's already sad for me to see that a lot of young aspiring cartoonists are putting stuff on the web, doing animation on the computer rather than making zines or mini-comics, which seem to be going the way of the dinosaur.” WaySeemsYoungStuffCreativityEffectsComputerSpeedNervousAnimationDinosaursCartoonistHigh SpeedZines Author:Adrian Tomine
“When I say "miracle" I mean a kind of thing like a computer on a chip, or the internet, or the cellphone, that are really quite miraculous. Most people would not have predicted them, and their effect has been very, very dramatic.” PeopleKindMeanHas BeensEffectsInternetComputerMiracleDramaticChipsMiraculousCellphone Author:Bill Gates
“Limit or eliminate late-night computer and television viewing. A computer or TV screen may seem much dimmer than a light bulb, but these screens often fill your field of vision, mimicking the effects of a room filled with light.” MayLightSeemsNightRoomsVisionEffectsFieldsTelevisionTvsLimitsComputerLateFilledScreensBulbsLate NightLight BulbMimicking Author:Andrew Weil