“Memory has always been social. Now we're using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too.” SocialMemoriesComputerEnginesOur MemoriesSearch Engine Author:Clive Thompson
“Those are all computational engines that are highly distributed and therefore highly robust, .. We're seeing a very significant evolution in the way we even think about computer systems, let alone specific applications.” ThinkingWaySeeingEvolutionComputerSignificantApplicationEnginesRobustComputer Systems Author:Vinton Cerf
“To many of us now, computers, silicon chips, data processing, cybernetics, and all the other innovations of the dawning high technology age are as mystifying as the workings of the combustion engine must have been when that first Model T rattled down Main Street, U.S.A. But as surely as America's pioneer spirit made us the industrial giant of the 20th century, the same pioneer spirit today is opening up on another vast front of opportunity, the frontier of high technology.” FirstsHas BeensMadeAgeTodayAmericaSpiritOpportunityTechnologyStreetsCenturyFrontsComputerModelsInnovationOpeningDataGiantsEngines20th CenturyChipsFrontiersPioneersProcessingSiliconOpening UpCyberneticsMain StreetCombustionHigh TechnologyPioneer SpiritModel T Author:Ronald Reagan
“In the future, search engines should be as useful as HAL in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey-but hopefully they won't kill people.” PeopleShouldSpaceComputerHopefullyEnginesOdysseySearch EngineSpace Odyssey2001 A Space Odyssey Author:Sergey Brin
“Now comes the second machine age. Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power - the ability to use our brains to understand and shape our environments-what the steam engine and its descendants did for muscle power.” UseAgeAbilityBrainEnvironmentShapesComputerMachinesMusclesDigitalEnginesOur EnvironmentSteamDescendantsMental PowerSteam Engines Author:Erik Brynjolfsson
“Ours has been called a culture of narcissism. The label is apt but can be misleading. It reads colloquially as selfishness and self-absorption. But these images do not capture the anxiety behind our search for mirrors. We are insecure in our understanding of ourselves, and this insecurity breeds a new preoccupation with the question of who we are. We search for ways to see ourselves. The computer is a new mirror, the first psychological machine. Beyond its nature as an analytical engine lies its second nature as an evocative object.” WayFirstsHas BeensSelfLyingCultureUnderstandingBehindsObjectsAnxietyComputerMachinesMirrorsPsychologicalLabelsSelfishnessWho We AreInsecurityCaptureEnginesNarcissismInsecureMisleadPreoccupationAbsorptionSelf Absorption Book:The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit Source: The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit
“A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist to make intention clear to the dumb engine.” MenClearComputerMessagesProgramMachinesIntentionDefinitionsDumbEnginesSyntax Author:Fred Brooks
“Man must be at once more humble and more confident; more humble in the face of destructive potentials of what he can achieve, more confident of his own humanity as against computers and robots which are only engines to simulate him.” MenFacesHumanityAchieveComputerHumbleDestructiveEnginesRobotsSimulate Author:Max Lerner
“Any money the government spends must be taxed, borrowed or conjured out of thin air by the Federal Reserve, and that will reduce sound private investment. Obama has no real wealth to inject into the economy. He can only move around existing money while inflation robs us of purchasing power. Meanwhile, private investors who might have produced a better engine, battery, computer, cancer treatment or other wealth-creating and life-enhancing innovations hold back for fear that big government will undermine productive efforts.” RealBigsGovernmentMightMovingSoundWealthEffortEconomyAirComputerCreatingInnovationInvestmentCancerProductiveTreatmentInvestorsEnginesReservesInflationBorrowedBatteriesBig GovernmentFederal ReservePurchasingThin AirPurchasing PowerReal WealthCancer Treatment Author:John Stossel
“I would say the soul would be more than the engine. The soul would be like the computer system that coordinates everything, from the smog device to the fuel injection system to the brakes.” SoulWould BeComputerFuelDevicesEnginesBrakeCoordinatesInjectionSmogComputer Systems Author:Dallas Willard
“Did he just rip out the engine?" I asked. "Yes", Saiman said. "And now he is demolishing the Maserati with it." Ten seconds later Curran hurled the twisted wreck of black and orange that used to be the Maserati into the wall. The first melodic notes of an old song came from the computer. I glanced at Saiman. He shrugged. "It begged for a soundtrack.” FirstsSaidUsedSongBlackWallTenComputerNotesUsed To BeSecondsEnginesOrangeTwistedRipWrecksSoundtracksOld SongMaserati Book:Magic Slays Source: Magic Slays
“You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live in a country which is incapable of estimating it.” CountryAbleScienceProgressInfluenceComputerAppreciateAppreciationStatisticsEnginesIncapableEstimatingFuture Progress Author:Charles Babbage