“Until very recently, most knowledge was inaccessible to people who couldn't read text. But this is changing. The computer opens up other channels of gaining knowledge. If someone is blind, we now have very good machines that will read to him. If someone can't recognize letters, he also will have access to knowledge through sound and images.” PeopleIfsSoundComputerLettersMachinesBlindVery GoodAccessInaccessibleGaining Knowledge Author:Seymour Papert
“Those with engineering skills will build tomorrow's genius computers. But those with the ability to create knowledge of any kind will be the ones who are best able to extract great value from them. The way to create value in the age of genius machines will be to compile and disseminate knowledge that other people will find useful.” PeopleWayKindAgeAbleValuesAbilityGeniusTomorrowSkillsComputerMachinesEngineeringGreat Value Author:Ray Kurzweil
“As soon as it's behind computers and machines, which the majority of the planet loves, I find it cold. I need to hear breathing. I like the idea of the mic being a captation of everything that's happening around.” NeedsIdeasBehindsPlanetsColdComputerHappeningsMachinesMajorityBreathingMics Author:Lou Doillon
“I met designers that are in the business for ten years in the movies, and their biggest complaint is things don't look anything like they were designed. Look at my drawing! But nobody ever sees the drawing, that's the thing. So I knew right from the beginning that I would design everything in 3D on my computer, and those models literally went to the machines. So every little radius on most of the vehicles you see there, I built with my mouse and keyboard.” YearsLooksLittlesDesignMetsTenComputerModelsBuiltMachinesDrawingDesignerVehicleMiceComplaintsKeyboardsRadius Author:Daniel Simon
“It's still the classic thing to get nice lines, but knowing that your computer model, on your little machine, is on the screen, is priceless. And that doesn't happen too often I don't think.” ThinkingLittlesStillsHappensLinesKnowingNiceComputerModelsMachinesScreensClassicPriceless Author:Daniel Simon
“When I worked with General Electric, again this was soon after the Second World War, you know, I was keeping up with new developments and they showed me a milling machine and this thing worked by punch cards - that's where computers were at that time, and everybody was sort of sheepish about how well this thing worked because in those days machinists were treated as though they were great musicians because they were virtuosos on these machines.” KnowsWorldWellsWarDevelopmentComputerMusicianMachinesTreatedCardsWar Of The WorldsElectricSecond World WarGreat MusicGreat MusicianGeneral Electric Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.” LanguageTechnologyComputerMachines Author:Alan Kay
“Humans are language machines, computers are language machines.” HumansLanguageComputerMachines Author:Howard Rheingold
“Artificial intelligence uses a complex set of rules - algorithms - to get to a conclusion. A computer has to calculate its way through all those rules, and that takes a lot of processing. So AI works best when a small computer is using it on a small problem - your car's anti-lock brakes are based on AI. Or you need to use a giant computer on a big problem - like IBM using a room-size machine to compete against humans on Jeopardy in 2011.” WayNeedsHumansUseProblemBigsRoomsCarComputerMachinesComplexesSizeConclusionGiantsArtificial IntelligenceArtificialLocksBig ProblemsProcessingAlgorithmsBrakeJeopardyIbmSmall Problems Author:Kevin Maney
“We have a culture that is indirect in the extreme, where by the time you're five years old, you've watched tons of television, and have been subjected to what I call "the age of interruption," where everything is interrupted every minute. We have constant input from TV, computers, fax machines, telephones, etc. It's very hard for a modern American to have two hours of uninterrupted time. I know how it is because I insist on several hours of uninterrupted time each day, and I know how ruthless I have to be to get it.” KnowsYearsHas BeensTwoHardAgeCultureHoursKnow HowFiveModernMinutesTelevisionTvsComputerMachinesConstantExtremesFive YearsEach DayEtcTelephonesRuthlessInterruptedInputInterruptionsOld YouFive Year OldsIndirectFaxFax Machines Author:Michael Ventura
“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
“Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.” IfsWantNeedsGrowsComputerMachinesPlantComplexesGiantsChipsFacilityManufacturingFabricationSemiconductors Author:Ralph Merkle
“For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce.” ForceBehindsTechnologyOfficeComputerResourcesToolsMachinesBlueWorkersDrivingPlanningExpertsEnterpriseFactoriesCommerceCollarsDriving ForceE CommerceBlue CollarAutomationComputer TechnologyBlue Collar Workers Author:Tom Peters
“The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.” ThinkingMenRealProblemScienceTechnologyComputerMachinesIntelligenceFavouriteReal ProblemsScience And TechnologyComputer TechnologyScience TechnologyTechnology And EducationTechnology In EducationEducational Technology Author:B. F. Skinner
“I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.” PeopleReasonTechnologyDemocracyPaperComputerMachinesEducatedVotingNo ReasonTrailsComputer Technology Author:Eddie Vedder
“We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.” PeoplePersonsImportantInspiringRightsComputerRacismMachinesPropertyProfitMotiveGiantsMaterialismIncapableProperty RightsMilitarismBreaking SilenceProfit MotiveTriplet Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.” KindAnswersComputerMachines Book:The Wrinkle in Time Quintet Source: The Wrinkle in Time Quintet
“Computers will have to learn that when I quote from some old author who spelled differently from the machine, the wishes of the long-dead author will have to be respected, and the machine will have to mind its manners” MindLongWishComputerMachinesManners Author:Robertson Davies
“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
“Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.” ScienceCreativityImpossibleAirComputerMachinesInnovationPhysicsSillyFlyingDumbAviationProvenPredictionsFollow Your DreamsStupid PeopleSkepticPropheticPredictingForecastsFamous Last WordsShort SightedScience PhysicsPredicting The FutureCrazy IdeasProven WrongFlying MachinesFuture Science Author:Lord Kelvin