“The first proponent of cortical memory networks on a major scale was neither a neuroscientist nor a computer scientist but .. a Viennes economist: Friedrich von Hayek (1899-1992). A man of exceptionally broad knowledge and profound insight into the operation of complex systems, Hayek applied such insight with remarkable success to economics (Nobel Prize, 1974), sociology, political science, jurisprudence, evolutionary theory, psychology, and brain science (Hayek, 1952).” MenFirstsPoliticalMemoriesBrainPsychologyTheoryComputerMajorsEconomicsScientistProfoundComplexesInsightScalesOperationsRemarkablePrizeBroadsEconomistSociologyPolitical ScienceNobelNobel PrizeComplex SystemsHayekJurisprudenceBrain ScienceVon Hayek Author:Joaquin Fuster
“With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake, into the twenty-first century.” FirstsBookHandsCenturyComputerTwentiesMarchElbowsQuake Author:Ray Bradbury
“When I was writing my first novel, I smoked cigarettes. And when I think about what it was like to smoke, I remember exactly the feeling of sitting in front of my big old computer in that little room where I wrote my first novel.” ThinkingWritingFirstsLittlesFeelingsBigsRememberRoomsNovelFrontsComputerSittingSmokeCigarette Author:Dani Shapiro
“I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computer and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.” FirstsKindPersonsTogetherInterestMetsComputerAll KindsSense Of HumorGood FriendBest FriendFirst PersonGarageElectronicsPranks Author:Steve Jobs
“I have many stories which don't make it to the computer. When I put it into the computer I make some changes and often add a few sentences here and there. I like the typewriter for first drafts because it means you can't change anything right away, you just have to put it all down.” FirstsMeanStoriesComputerAddSentencesHere And ThereCan't ChangeTypewriters Author:Arthur Bradford
“What I did with my first records was, my writing process was that I didn't touch any instruments to write it, so I was making it all on the computer, and really the arrangements were coming first, the intricate thing.” WritingFirstsProcessRecordsComputerInstrumentsArrangementsWriting ProcessIntricate Author:Annie E. Clark
“My first epiphany that this might work came on my first day, when I went into biofeedback. They hooked me up to computers through electrodes, put me in a comfortable lounge chair, put an eye pillow over my face, slipped speakers onto my head and played an audio guided visualization.” FirstsMightEyeFacesComfortableComputerChairsSpeakersPillowVisualizationHookedEpiphanyAudio Author:Brad Willis
“And out of the blue, I got a call from an editor friend at Knopf and she said that they were interested in putting out an update for their vintage paperback line. So I was more than thrilled and it was suggested that perhaps I could do a 1,000 word new introduction covering what's happened with the whole Warhol thing since 1990 when the first edition hardcover came out and, uh, that was about August 1st and I sat down at my computer here in East Hampton and on on August 30th I'd written almost 10,000 words!” FirstsSaidWholeLinesWrittenHappenedComputerBlueEastSatEditorsIntroductionCoveringAugustVintageWarholUpdatesHamptons Author:Bob Colacello
“If a product costs $10,000 or $20,000 it has limited use. This is what the first computers cost! Only when almost everyone is able to afford it will it be a real thing.” IfsFirstsRealUseAbleProductsCostComputerReal Things Author:Mark Zuckerberg
“The funny thing is that Sydney, who worked on the first film [Tron], developed a bike that had an exposed rider, but they couldn't do it because the computers weren't fast enough, so they gave it a roof, which became the iconic one. Ironically what we do now is basically what they envisioned in the first one but couldn't do technically. I mean this a full on homage in every aspect.” FirstsMeanEnoughFilmComputerAspectExposedRoofBikeFunny ThingsRidersHomageIconicSydney Author:Daniel Simon
“When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.” WritingFirstsAbleEasyLinesSilenceTypeDespairComputerSittingSentencesScreensPensDesksPadsComputer Screen Author:Erica Jong
“Ever since I first used a computer in the early '80s, I've thought of it as a fundamentally new medium for the dissemination of ideas which can transform people's lives and the society we live in.” PeopleFirstsIdeasUsedComputerMediums80sDissemination Author:Mike McCue
“I am somebody who usually writes out the rough draft in longhand. Then I type it into the computer, and that is where I do my editing. I find that if I write it on the computer, I go too quick. So I like getting that first draft out and then typing it in; you are less self-conscious about it.” IfsWritingFirstsSelfTypeComputerConsciousRoughEditingSelf ConsciousTypingRough Drafts Author:Barack Obama
“When we look at these historical women and what they've gone through, it's shocking to recognize some of our own experiences in theirs. When you look at someone like Ada Lovelace who is the first computer programmer, during her lifetime doctors said that was really sick because she was trying to use a masculine kind of brain that she didn't have. Today, her legacy of being the first programmer is stil disputed.” TryingFirstsLooksKindSaidUseTodayBrainGoneComputerDoctorsSickHistoricalLifetimeLegacyShockingMasculineProgrammersComputer ProgrammersAda Author:Anita Sarkeesian
“My children threw me a life line: "Return to your roots - food - and rewrite your first book, Diet for a Small Planet." I learned that if I could just show up, in this case, if I could just get myself out of bed, get to the computer in my tiny office at MIT, and start writing, help would start arriving.” IfsWritingFirstsChildrenBookHelpingShowsLinesCasesPlanetsReturnBedOfficeComputerRootsTinyMy ChildrenDietsIf I CouldArrivingMitLife Line Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“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
“I first learnt to program a computer when I was nine, when my dad got a ZX80, but I think I would have had to be a particularly perspicacious child to have foreseen the iPad or Twitter!” ThinkingFirstsChildrenDadComputerProgramMy DadNineIpadsForeseen Author:Suw Charman-Anderson
“Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson. Unix was basically his, likewise C's predecessor, likewise much of the basis of Plan 9 (though Rob Pike was the real force in getting it together). And in the meantime Ken created the first computer chess master and pretty much rewrote the book on chess endgames. He is quite a phenomenon.” FirstsPersonsBookRealTogetherForceCareersPlansInfluenceMastersComputerBasesChessPhenomenonPredecessorsEndgameUnix Author:Dennis Ritchie
“You have to think back to the '90s. The computer was this terrible-looking thing that was trying to compete with the television. And it was this idea of email and chat rooms and this kind of stuff that first people - got people there.” PeopleThinkingTryingFirstsKindIdeasStuffRoomsTelevisionTerribleComputerEmail Author:Tim Wu
“It was 4 or 5 years into my first design job before the idea of doing graphic design on computers started taking hold. I started working in 1980, the Macintosh was introduced in 1984, then the real desktop publishing only started coming around in 85-86, but it wasn't really until the end of the decade that the transition became irresistible.” YearsFirstsIdeasRealEndsJobsDesignComputerDecadesTransitionPublishingGraphicIrresistibleGraphic DesignMacintoshDesktopDesktop Publishing Author:Michael Bierut
“I started to explore computers on my own and first used one at the age of 6, when I was in first grade.” FirstsAgeUsedMy OwnComputerGrades Author:Arfa Karim
“There are three bombs. The first one is the atomic bomb, which disintegrates reality, the second one is the digital or computer bomb, which destroys the principle of reality itself - not the actual object - and rebuilds it, and finally the third bomb is the demographic one. Some experts have found out that in five thousand years from now, the weight of the population will be heavier than the weight of the planet. That means that humanity will constitute a planet of its own!” YearsFirstsMeanRealityHumanityThreeFoundPrinciplesFiveObjectsPlanetsThousandComputerThirdsWeightPopulationExpertsBombsDigitalThousand YearsDemographicsAtomic Bomb Author:Paul Virilio
“What a lot of people don't know, because in a lot of TV and movies, they have a lot of men talking about computers - it was a woman who invented the first compiler!” PeopleKnowsMenFirstsTalkingTvsComputer Author:Lisa Ling
“Steve Jobs was one of the first people to understand that the computer wasn't just a tool, but that it could be an extension of ourselves, and he positioned Apple that way. The iPod was this revolutionary device with the idea of 1,000 songs in your pocket, and then that machine represents who you are.” PeopleWayFirstsIdeasJobsSongComputerToolsMachinesWho You AreRevolutionaryApplesPocketsDevicesExtensionsIpods Author:Alex Gibney
“I don't really sit at the computer from scratch. I prefer to get my ideas in my fingers and I write longhand first.” WritingFirstsIdeasComputerFingersScratches Author:Mary Ann Hoberman
“When I studied computer science at Duke University in the first half of the 1980s, I had professors who treated women differently than men. I kind of got used to it. At Microsoft, I had to use my elbows and make sure I spoke up at the table, but it was an incredibly meritocratic place. Outside, in the industry, I would feel the sexism. I'd walk into a room and until I proved my worth, everyone would assume that the guy presenting with me had credibility and I didn't.” MenFeelsFirstsKindUseUsedGuyWalksRoomsHalfIndustryComputerTablesAssumingUniversityTreatedSpokesSexismProfessorsCredibilityMicrosoftPresentingComputer ScienceDukesElbowsDuke University Author:Melinda Gates
“Your computer needn't be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at night.” FirstsLastsNightMorningComputer Author:Simon Mainwaring
“I heard a computer scientist the other day refer to playing with the Kinect as 'storytelling.' At first I thought that sounded a little high-minded, but after trying a few games I could see what she meant.” TryingFirstsLittlesGamesHeardComputerScientistStorytelling Author:Susan Orlean
“Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.” GivingFirstsWantedAmericaPurposeLiteratureTechnologyComputerCopiesFirefighterDuplicate Author:Andy Rooney
“I remember when I first came around, the computer-generated stuff was pretty wicked. I was like, 'Wow!' but I feel like then for the longest time, we saw so much of it, after a while, you might as well just be watching an animated movie.” FeelsFirstsWellsMightRememberStuffSawsComputerWickedWowRemember WhenAnimatedAnimated Movies Author:Paul Walker
“I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.” WritingFirstsLevelsFindingsComputerProgramDeeperGrades Author:Mark Zuckerberg
“Our first computers were born not out of greed or ego, but in the revolutionary spirit of helping common people rise above the most powerful institutions.” PeopleFirstsHelpingSpiritBornPowerfulCommonEgoComputerInstitutionsGreedRevolutionaryMost PowerfulRise Above Author:Steve Wozniak
“instead i head to the computer and it's like i turn into a little girl who's just seen her first rainbow. i get all giddy and nervous and hopeful and despairing and i tell myself not to look obsessively at my buddy list, but it might as well be projected onto the insides of my eyelids. at 8:05 his name pops up, and i start to count. i only get to twelve before his IM pops up.” FirstsWellsLooksLittlesMightTurnsGirlNamesComputerPopsListsNervousHopefulTwelveRainbowBuddyEyelidsGiddy Book:Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story Source: Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story
“If at first you don't succeed, Call an airstrike.” IfsFirstsSucceedComputerGeekCall Of DutyMurphys LawFunny ComputerProgramming Funny Author:Banksy
“A long time ago, Trinity and I made a list of types of guys you should never date. We add to it every now and then. It includes things like never date a guy whose computer costs more than his car (you'll never get him to pay attention to you except over instant messages), never date a guy who has a pet lizard (he's probably into weird stuff in bed) and never under any circumstances go on a second date with a guy who says the word "married" on the first date (he'll turn out to be a mama's boy or a religious type)” ShouldFirstsLongMadeGuyTurnsStuffReligiousPayAttentionBoysCarTypeGoes OnCircumstancesCostBedComputerMarriedMessagesLong TimeAddListsPay AttentionInstantPetNow And ThenLong Time AgoMamaTrinityLizardsFirst DateType Of GuyWeird StuffMama's Boy Book:I Kissed a Zombie, and I Liked It Source: I Kissed a Zombie, and I Liked It
“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
“Two things you should know about me; The first is that I am deeply suspicious of people in general. It is my nature to expect the worst of them. And the second is that I am unexpectedly good with computers.” PeopleKnowsShouldFirstsTwoFourWorstComputerTwo ThingsSuspicious Author:Veronica Roth
“Plainly it isn't an exact science, despite it being a complex interaction of micro-decisions and corresponding thought; perhaps it doesn't always work and we pass by some potential soulmates like the proverbial ships in the night, never quite connecting. Then again, perhaps the system is tenacious and continues to run like a computer program on infinite loop, so that if at first you don't meet, you are drawn back together for another try.” IfsTryingFirstsRunningTogetherNightDecisionComputerProgramInfiniteComplexesShipsDespiteInteractionSoulmateConnectingBack TogetherLoopsCorrespondingTenaciousProverbialExact Sciences Author:Simon Pegg
“I don't know when they first had feeds. Like maybe, fifty or a hundred years ago. Before that, they had to use their hands and their eyes. Computers were all outside the body. They carried them around outside of them, in their hands, like if you carried your lungs in a briefcase and opened it to breathe.” IfsKnowsYearsFirstsUseBodyHandsEyeComputerHundredYears AgoBreatheFiftyLungsBriefcases Author:Matthew Tobin Anderson
“Sign by elevator put up by computer geeks in office building: REMEMBER: FIRST YOU PILAGE, THEN YOU BURN. THOSE WHO DO NOT COMPLY WILL BE SUSPENDED FROM THE RAIDING TEAM. In Mr Perfect” FirstsRememberPerfectTeamBuildingOfficeComputerGeekElevatorsSuspendedOffice BuildingsRaidingMr Perfect Author:Linda Howard
“Read to your children Twenty minutes a day; You have the time, And so do they. Read while the laundry is in the machine; Read while the dinner cooks; Tuck a child in the crook of your arm And reach for the library books. Hide the remote, Let the computer games cool, For one day your children will be off to school; Remedial? Gifted? You have the choice; Let them hear their first tales In the sound of your voice. Read in the morning; Read over noon; Read by the light of Goodnight Moon. Turn the pages together, Sitting close as you'll fit, Till a small voice beside you says, "Hey, don't quit.” FirstsChildrenBookLightSchoolTogetherTurnsChoicesGamesSoundVoiceMorningMinutesArmsFitOne DayMoonComputerPagesSittingMachinesTwentiesLibraryDinnerQuittingTalesHeyCooksYour ChildrenGiftedNoonLaundryCrooksLibrary BooksBeside YouSmall VoiceComputer Games Author:Richard Peck
“Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.” LoveShouldFirstsPersonsUseFunnyMarriageInternetComputerLove And MarriageMarriage LoveFunny Marriage AdviceCelebrity RelationshipPerfect MarriageShort MarriageHonest Relationship Author:Will Ferrell
“There is a popular cliché ... which says that you cannot get out of computers any more than you have put in..., that computers can only do exactly what you tell them to, and that therefore computers are never creative. This cliché is true only in a crashingly trivial sense, the same sense in which Shakespeare never wrote anything except what his first schoolteacher taught him to write-words.” WritingFirstsTruthScienceCreativityCreativeTeacherTaughtComputer Author:Richard Dawkins