“With nine degrees of warming, computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish. Water supply to the Murray-Darling Basin will fall by half, severely curtailing food production.” LooksFallWaterHalfDegreesComputerProjectsModelsProductionsDisasterNineAustraliaDarlingHabitatFood ProductionVertebratesDisaster Movie Author:Jeff Goodell
“The machinery of destruction is complete, poised on a hair trigger, waiting for the 'button' to be 'pushed' by some misguided or deranged human being or for some faulty computer chip to send out the instruction to fire. That so much should be balanced on so fine a point--that the fruit of four and a half billion years can be undone in a careless moment--is a fact against which belief rebels.” ShouldYearsHumansMomentsFactsBeliefWaitingHuman BeingsHalfFireFourHairFineComputerDestructionFruitBillionsRebelInstructionBalancedButtonsChipsMachineryTriggersCarelessUndoneMisguidedDeranged Book:The Fate of the Earth: And, The Abolition Source: The Fate of the Earth: And, The Abolition
“An international team of psychiatrists has flown to Redmond, WA in an attempt to discover exactly what makes Bill Gates tick. And, more especially, what makes him go cuckoo every half hour.” HoursHalfTeamComputerBillsInternationalGatesPsychiatristTickHalf HoursCuckoos Author:David Pogue
“I used to sit home with my computer and write. After the Newbery, I probably spend more than half my time on the road.” WritingHomeUsedHalfComputerMy Time Author:Linda Sue Park
“Writing, and especially writing a novel, where you get to sit in a room by yourself with either a pen and a paper or a computer for a couple of years, is a very solitary occupation. You can read sales figures - a hundred thousand books sold, half a million books sold - but they are just numbers.” WritingYearsBookRoomsNumbersHalfMillionsNovelFiguresCoupleThousandPaperComputerHundredPensOccupationSolitary Author:Neil Gaiman
“My big dream back then was to buy an IBM Selectric. I still have that dream. I really ought to buy a word-processor. Half the cabbies at Rocky own computers. They tell me they can write failed novels ten times faster on a PC.” WritingStillsDreamBigsHalfNovelOughtTenComputerFasterIbmProcessors Author:Gary Reilly
“I write exclusively using computers. Pens and typewriters can fsck right off - I wrote my first half million words in my teens on a manual typewriter (had to trade it for a new one due to keys snapping from metal fatigue) so I am not a pen or typewriter fetishist.” WritingFirstsHalfMillionsKeysComputerTradeDuesPensMetalsTeensFatigueTypewritersManualsSnapping Author:Charles Stross
“I was Computer Shopper's linux columnist for more than half a decade, from the late 90s onwards. Yes, I know about Linux. (My first review of a Linux distro in the press was published in late 1996.)” KnowsFirstsHalfComputerLatePressesDecadesReviewsLinuxColumnistsShoppers Author:Charles Stross
“I go to live in Maine for the summer. Without computer, and without the telephone service we are mercifully without the faxes and e-mails. So it's really about two and a half months that I'll feel like I can recover some silence in my life...which is so hard to find.” FeelsI CanTwoHardHalfSilenceMonthsComputerSummerMailTelephonesMaineFax Author:Alan Lightman
“I said, 'Okay, it's the year 2000, I'm getting a computer and a Palm Pilot.' I know how to check my e-mail, and I've listed some phone numbers on it. Half the time the battery has gone out so I can't use it.” KnowsYearsSaidI CanUseNumbersHalfKnow HowGoneComputerOkayPhonesChecksPilotsMailPalmsBatteriesPhone Numbers Author:Marc Jacobs
“Half the stuff I've written was written when I was half asleep watching the David Letterman show when some boring actress was on talking about herself. I would just mute the TV, look over to the computer and start plugging in notes. Then the next morning you go "Wow, I like this". I'd almost forget what I did, and then it would inspire me to go on and do the next thing. That's what I do. Just kind of follow my own little thing.” LooksKindLittlesShowsNextStuffMy OwnForgetHalfTalkingMorningWrittenInspireTvsGoes OnComputerNotesBoringActressesLittle ThingsWowMuteLettermanPlugging In Author:Terry Bozzio
“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
“The computer cuts my production time in half. I love it.” HalfCuttingComputerProductions Author:Scott Adams
“Derek looked at Kylie and half chuckled. "The last time I saw that look from girls, there was a handwritten note on my neighbor's tree house that read 'No boys allowed.' I'll see you. And if I get anything from my computer research, I'll let you know.” IfsKnowsLooksLastsGirlHouseHalfBoysSawsTreeComputerResearchNotesNeighborLast TimeHandwritten Notes Author:C.C. Hunter