“Think of it: the lowest common denominator in being digital is not your operating system, modem, or model of computer. It's a tiny piece of plastic, designed decades ago by Bell Labs' Charles Krumreich, Edwin Hardesty, and company, who thought they were making an inconspicuous plug for a few telephone handsets. Not in their wildest dreams was Registered Jack 11 - a modular connector more commonly known as the RJ-11 - meant to be plugged and unplugged so many times, by so many people, for so many reasons, all over the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldReasonDreamCommonCompanyKnownPiecesComputerModelsDecadesTinyDigitalMeant To BeBellsPlasticLowestTelephonesLabsPlugsCommon DenominatorOperating SystemsWildest DreamsLowest Common DenominatorConnectors Author:Nicholas Negroponte
“For his major contributions to the analysis of algorithms and the design of programming languages, and in particular for his contributions to the "art of computer programming" through his well-known books in a continuous series by this title.” WellsArtBookLanguageKnownDesignParticularComputerMajorsSeriesTitlesAnalysisContributionProgrammingWell KnownComputer ProgrammingProgramming LanguagesAlgorithms Author:Donald Knuth
“Professor Wilkes is best known as the builder and designer of the EDSAC, the first computer with an internally stored program. Built in 1949, the EDSAC used a mercury delay line memory. He is also known as the author, with Wheeler and Gill, of a volume on "Preparation of Programs for Electronic Digital Computers" in 1951, in which program libraries were effectively introduced.” FirstsUsedLinesMemoriesKnownComputerBuiltProgramLibraryPreparationDesignerDigitalProfessorsVolumeDelayBuilderMercury Author:Maurice Wilkes
“All that's known is this: there is no central processor, no single computer. Nothing that simple. Millions of neurons process information simultaneously and in parallel, not linearly, but the actual chemistry and electrical properties of that integrative process are still being mapped. Even so, it seems odd that during the evolution of brain circuitry and thinking, the ability to understand itself did not get wired in. Such built-in innocence seems like a terrible oversight.” ThinkingMindStillsSeemsProcessSimpleAbilityBrainKnownMillionsInformationEvolutionTerribleComputerBuiltPropertyInnocenceOddChemistryParallelsElectricalNeuronsOversightProcessors Book:A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning Source: A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning
“Despite the fact that computer speeds are measured in nanoseconds and picoseconds - one billionth and one trillionth of a second, respectively - the smallest interval of time known to man is that which occurs in Manhattan between the traffic signal turning green and the taxi driver behind you blowing his horn.” MenFactsHomeBehindsKnownTravelComputerGreenSpeedDespiteDriversSmallestTrafficSignalsHornsManhattanBehind YouTaxiIntervals Author:Johnny Carson
“It's not even known how many kinds of cells there are in the brain. If you were looking for a periodic table of the brain, there is no such thing. I really like to think of the brain as a computer.” IfsThinkingKindBrainKnownComputerTablesCellsPeriodic Table Author:Edward Boyden
“When I write, I lose time. I'm happy in a way that I have a hard time finding in real life. The intimacy between my brain and my fingers and my computer... Yet knowing that that intimacy will find an audience... It's very satisfying. It's like having the safety of being alone with the ego reward of being known.” WayWritingRealHardLosesBrainKnownAudienceKnowingEgoFindingsComputerSafetyFingersRewardsReal LifeIntimacyHard TimesSatisfying Author:Jill Soloway
“When things are digital, they're all 1's and zero's, and so they commingle in ways we didn't anticipate and you could do things that were not like publishing or television, or computers, but were some intersection of those and that got known to be convergence, so between the switching, or trading of places and the convergence, you have today's media.” WayTodayKnownMediaTelevisionComputerDigitalZeroPublishingTradingAnticipateIntersectionsSwitchingConvergence Author:Nicholas Negroponte
“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
“Now, what does a vampire do with a computer? Keep track of investments? Send e-mail to other vampires as you all plot to take over the world?” “I spend a lot of time on Wikipedia making corrections to the entries of historical figures I’ve known.” I blinked at him. “Really?” “No, Kitty. That was a joke.” WorldDoeKnownFiguresComputerJokesHistoricalInvestmentTrackVampirePlotMailEntryCorrectionsWikipediaKittiesHistorical Figure Author:Carrie Vaughn