“Given that I have to share my computer with my three children, it's not usually a site that I get to spend that much time on. I'm usually on the Nickelodeon site, coloring with my little five year old or something.” YearsChildrenLittlesThreeGivenFiveShareComputerFive YearsSiteFive Year OldsNickelodeon Author:Todd McFarlane
“Once you can understand something in a way that you can shove it into a computer, you have cracked its code, transcended any particularity it might have at a given time. It was as if we had become the gods of vision and had effectively created all possible images, for they would merely be reshufflings of the bits in the computers we had before us, completely under our command.” IfsWayMightGivenBitsVisionComputerCodeCracked Author:Jaron Lanier
“A reason to have computers understand natural language is that it's an extremely effective way of communicating. What I came to realize is that the success of the communication depends on the real intelligence on the part of the listener, and that there are many other ways of communicating with a computer that can be more effective, given that it doesn't have the intelligence.” WayRealReasonLanguageGivenRealizingNaturalCommunicationDependsComputerCommunicateListenersReal Intelligence Author:Terry Winograd
“A computer is the most incredible tool we've ever seen. It can be a writing tool, a communications center, a supercalculator, a planner, a filer and an artistic instrument all in one, just by being given new instructions, or software, to work from. There are no other tools that have the power and versatility of a computer.” WritingGivenCommunicationComputerToolsInstrumentsIncrediblesArtisticSoftwareInstructionPlannersVersatility Author:Steve Jobs
“It is important to remember that when it comes to law, computers never make copies, only human beings make copies. Computers are given commands, not permission. Only people can be given permission.” PeopleHumansImportantRememberLawGivenHuman BeingsComputerCommandCopiesPermissionCommand Not Author:Brad Templeton
“I am confident that we can do better than GUIs because the basic problem with them (and with the Linux and Unix interfaces) is that they ask a human being to do things that we know experimentally humans cannot do well. The question I asked myself is, given everything we know about how the human mind works, could we design a computer and computer software so that we can work with the least confusion and greatest efficiency?” KnowsMindHumansWellsProblemAsksGivenCan DoHuman BeingsDesignComputerConfusionHuman MindSoftwareEfficiencyLinuxInterfacesUnixComputer Software Author:Jef Raskin
“Kids don't even know what it means that you have to watch a show on Thursday night at 9 o'clock, on any given network. You just put it on your DVR, or queue it up on your computer, and it's an on-demand and instant access world.” KnowsWorldMeanShowsKidsNightGivenWatchesDemandComputerAccessClockInstantThursdayQueuesThursday Night Author:Joseph McGinty Nichol
“Marketing isn't done by computers, it's done by people. And people who sense opportunity and have the confidence to be remarkable will always defeat defensive actions by people who have given up.” PeopleDoneActionOpportunityGivenComputerMarketingDefeatRemarkableGiven Up Author:Seth Godin
“It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.” IfsWantYearsHas BeensSaidWantedThreeNextGivenComputerBuiltCustomersProgrammingSpokesThree YearsThey Said Author:Steve Jobs
“When I think about discussions at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, a group which includes not only philosophers and psychologists, but also computer scientists and linguists, it is noteworthy that one can't always tell just from the content of particular contributions from the audience, whether a given questioner is a philosopher or an empirical scientist.” ThinkingPhilosophyGivenAudiencePsychologyGroupsParticularComputerScientistPhilosopherDiscussionContributionPsychologistLinguists Author:Hilary Kornblith
“The mediated world has approached us from a lot of different directions and we have freely chosen our automobiles and our skyscrapers and our televisions and our telephones and our computers because they have given us power and freedom. Now we are beginning to notice there's a price to pay for them. It's all interconnected, the good stuff and the bad stuff comes together.” WorldDifferentTogetherGivenStuffPayTelevisionComputerChosenTelephonesAutomobileInterconnectedDifferent DirectionsSkyscraperBad Stuff Author:Howard Rheingold
“Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the computer science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.” GivenKnownCareersComputerSevenDepartmentAcademicSpeakersComputer ScienceDwarfs Book:The last lecture Source: The last lecture
“Nick sat beside Simon, who was at his computer. Marcus stood at attention beside the food. Hale had his feet on the table, reading the morning paper. And someone had given the Bagshaws a gun. 'Pull!' Hamish yelled, and Angus pulled a cord and sent a skeet flying across the deep blue water. A split second later, a loud crack was reverberating across the deck. Kat jumped. Hale sighed. The shot went far wide, and Marcus never moved a muscle.” ReadingGivenWaterAttentionMorningFeetPaperComputerGunShotsBlueTablesMovedWideFlyingLoudSatMusclesCracksSplitsDeckCordsHaleBlue Water Author:Ally Carter