“Major power and telephone grids have long been controlled by computer networks, but now similar systems are embedded in such mundane objects as electric meters, alarm clocks, home refrigerators and thermostats, video cameras, bathroom scales, and Christmas-tree lights - all of which are, or soon will be, accessible remotely.” LongHomeLightTreeObjectsComputerMajorsCamerasScalesVideoClockControlledElectricTelephonesBathroomMundaneAlarmsEmbeddedMeterRefrigeratorsGridsChristmas TreeAlarm ClocksVideo Cameras Author:Charles C. Mann
“The computer is a tool akin to a telescope or a microscope; a tool that opens vast frontiers of possibilities and brings them to light; a tool that captures the elemental and animates or holds it still at will; a tool that captures the organic flow of the earth's crust or the wash of a wave, and creates an impossible symmetry, an elemental Rorshach pattern ripe for continued exploration, divulging a thousand revelations.” StillsLightEarthImpossiblePossibilityThousandComputerFlowToolsWavePatternsRevelationsExplorationCaptureFrontiersRipeTelescopesSymmetryMicroscopesElementals Author:John Paul Caponigro
“I have a real aversion to machines. I write with a pen. Then I read it to someone who writes it onto the computer. What are those computer letters made of anyway? Light? Too insubstantial. Paper, you can feel it. A pen. There's a connection. A pen goes exactly at your speed, whereas that machine jumps. And then, that machine is waiting for you, just humming "uh-huh, yes?” FeelsWritingMadeRealLightWaitingPaperComputerLettersConnectionsMachinesSpeedPensAversionWaiting For YouHumming Author:Fran Lebowitz
“A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.” MindHumansLightLinesCitiesComputerChaosDataComplexityRepresentationGraphicConstellationsUnthinkableCyberspaceClustersCyberpunkCity Lights Author:William Gibson
“When you zap things with light to build quantum computers, you're hacking existing systems. You're hijacking the computation that's already happening in the universe, just like a hacker takes over someone else's computer.” LightUniverseComputerHappeningsQuantumHackingHackersComputationHijacking Author:Seth Lloyd
“With the computer and programming languages, mathematics has newly-acquired tools, and its notation should be reviewed in the light of them. The computer may, in effect, be used as a patient, precise, and knowledgeable "native speaker" of mathematical notation.” ShouldMayLightUsedLanguageEffectsComputerToolsMathematicsPatientMathematicalProgrammingNativeSpeakersPreciseProgramming LanguagesKnowledgeable Author:Kenneth E. Iverson
“The computers in Atlantis were infinitely evolved as opposed to what we see today. The science, the technology, everything was really done with light. All processing was done with light, with crystal formations and structures. Electricity is much too slow.” DoneLightTodayTechnologyComputerStructureAncientElectricityCrystalsFormationProcessingAncient EgyptAtlantis Author:Frederick Lenz
“My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.” BookLightQuietComputerMachinesDefinedTelephonesFaxFax MachinesEphemeraWorkspace Author:Maira Kalman
“Computer mediation seems to bathe action in a more conditional light: perhaps it happened; perhaps it didn't. Without the layeredrichness of direct sensory engagement, the symbolic medium seems thin, flat, and fragile.” RealityLightSeemsActionHappenedComputerDirectMediumsFlatsFragileEngagementRealismSymbolicSensoryMediationConditional Book:In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power Source: In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power
“My workspace is a white room with a big computer monitor and a light box. It can be very messy. Sometimes I get into trouble with my husband for that. Then I run around like a lunatic cleaning up and creating the appearance of order.” SometimesBigsLightRunningOrderWhiteRoomsTroubleHusbandComputerCreatingBoxesAppearanceMy HusbandCleaningMessyLunaticCleaning UpWorkspace Author:Catherine Martin
“I've never felt really creative or intuitive using software. I like paper and pens and paint. I need to angle real lights on my artwork and work with my hands and build props. Computers just take all that fun out of it [animation drawing].” NeedsRealHandsLightFunFeltCreativePaperComputerPaintDrawingPensSoftwareAngleIntuitiveAnimationPropsArtworkPaper And Pen Author:Don Hertzfeldt
“Computers and rocket ships are examples of invention, not of understanding. ... All that is needed to build machines is the knowledge that when one thing happens, another thing happens as a result. It's an accumulation of simple patterns. A dog can learn patterns. There is no "why&rdqo"; in those examples. We don't understand why electricity travels. We don't know why light travels at a constant speed forever. All we can do is observe and record patterns.” KnowsLightHappensScienceUnderstandingCan DoSimpleResultsKnowledgeForeverRecordsOne ThingDogExampleNeededComputerMachinesConstantPatternsSpeedThings HappenInventionShipsElectricityRocketsAccumulation Author:Scott Adams
“Computers shouldn't be unusable. You don't need to know how to work a telephone switch to make a phone call, or how to use the Hoover Dam to take a shower, or how to work a nuclear-power plant to turn on the lights.” KnowsNeedsUseLightTurnsKnow HowComputerPlantPhonesNuclearShowersTelephonesTurn-onPhone CallsNuclear PowerDamsPower PlantsHooverHoover Dam Author:Scott McNealy
“I love technology. Matches, to light a fire is really high tech. The wheel is REALLY one of the great inventions of all time. Other than that I am an ignoramus about technology. I once looked for the 'ON' button on the computer and came to find out it was on the back. Then I thought, anyone who would put the 'on' switch on the back, where you can't find it, doesn't do any good for my psyche. The one time I did get the computer on, I couldn't turn the damn thing off!” LightTurnsTechnologyFireComputerInventionAll TimeDamnWheelsOne TimeButtonsDamn ThingsGreat Inventions Author:William Shatner
“People thought this was a computer IT gig, and that will flow through those nerdy departments and it won't come into fashion photography, it won't come into television, it won't come into my daily communications, it won't come into my telephone, my microphone, my light control, my microwave radio, my - I mean, just name it.” PeopleMeanLightNamesFashionTelevisionCommunicationComputerPhotographyFlowRadioDepartmentTelephonesGigsMicrophonesNerdyMicrowavesFashion Photography Author:Juan Enriquez
“Limit or eliminate late-night computer and television viewing. A computer or TV screen may seem much dimmer than a light bulb, but these screens often fill your field of vision, mimicking the effects of a room filled with light.” MayLightSeemsNightRoomsVisionEffectsFieldsTelevisionTvsLimitsComputerLateFilledScreensBulbsLate NightLight BulbMimicking Author:Andrew Weil
“Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars on oil. All of these different things can be called technology. I have kind of a love-hate relationship with it, as I expect most people do. With the computer, I spend so many hours sitting in front of a computer.” PeopleKindDifferentLightRunningRomanceHateTermHoursTechnologyCarFrontsComputerSittingOilDifferent ThingsBroadsElectricLove HateLove Hate RelationshipElectric LightLove And Hate Relationship Author:Jeff Bridges
“People think that alien spaceships would be solid and made of metal and have lights all over them and move slowly through the sky because that is how we would build a spaceship if we were able to build one that big. But aliens, if they exist, would probably be very different from us. They might look like big slugs, or be flat like reflections. Or they might be bigger than planets. Or they might not have bodies at all. They might just be information, like in a computer. And their spaceships might look like clouds, or be made up of unconnected objects like dust or leaves.” PeopleIfsThinkingLooksMadeDifferentBodyBigsLightMightWould BeAbleMovingSkyInformationObjectsPlanetsComputerReflectionBiggerCloudsDustAliensFlatsMetalsSpaceshipsSlugs Author:Mark Haddon
“In the dim light of the computer screen he seemed otherworldly; Julia thought him beautiful, though she knew it was the beauty of damage.” LightBeautifulComputerScreensDamageJuliaComputer Screen Book:Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel Source: Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel
“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