“The single most important technique for making progress is to write ten words. Doesn't matter if you're badly stuck, or your day is completely jam-packed, or you're away from your computer - carry a small paper notebook and write a sentence of description while you're waiting on line at a coffee shop. I think of this as baiting a hook. Even if you have a few days in a row where nothing comes except those ten words, I find that as long as you have to think about the novel enough to write ten words, the chances are that more will come.” IfsThinkingWritingLongImportantMatterEnoughWaitingLinesChanceNovelProgressTenPaperComputerSentencesTechniqueCoffeeStuckShopsDescriptionHookJamChances AreNotebookCoffee Shop Author:Naomi Novik
“The Supreme Court has held that code is speech. And it doesn't matter that it's done on a computer or done face to face or done in a newspaper, reporting the facts of the world is protected speech.” WorldMatterDoneFactsFacesSpeechComputerCourtNewspapersSupremeCodeProtectedSupreme CourtFace To Face Author:Jimmy Wales
“At the end of the day, a television, a computer, or a smart phone is just a device through which one can access content. The content itself is what matters, not the device.” EndsMatterTelevisionComputerSmartPhonesAccessThe End Of The DayDevicesWhat Matters Author:Ray William Johnson
“The origins and travels of our purchases remain matters of indifference, although to the more imaginative at least a slight dampness at the bottom of a carton, or an obscure code printed along a computer cable, may hint at processes of manufacture and transport nobler and more mysterious, more worthy of wonder and study, than the very goods themselves.” MayMatterProcessWonderStudyComputerBottomVery GoodWorthyMysteriousCodeIndifferenceGoodsObscureImaginativeCablesPrintedHintsTransport Author:Alain de Botton
“Much of the early engineering development of digital computers was done in universities. A few years ago, the view was commonly expressed that universities had played their part in computer design, and that the matter could now safely be left to industry. [...] Apart from the obvious functions of keeping in the public domain material that might otherwise be hidden, universities can make a special contribution by reason of their freedom from commercial considerations, including freedom from the need to follow the fashion.” NeedsYearsMatterReasonDoneMightLeftViewsSpecialFashionDesignMaterialsDevelopmentIndustryComputerYears AgoFunctionIncludingUniversityObviousContributionConsiderationDigitalEngineeringDomainPublic Domain Author:Maurice Wilkes
“Technology and computers are very much at the core of our economy going forward. To be prepared for the demands of the 21st century-and to take advantage of its opportunities-it is essential that more of our students today learn basic computer programming skills, no matter what field of work they want to pursue.” WantMatterTodayOpportunityTechnologyEconomyCenturyFieldsStudentsSkillsDemandEssentialsComputerAdvantageNo Matter WhatPreparedCorePursueProgrammingBe Prepared21st CenturyComputer ProgrammingStudents Today Author:Todd Park
“Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments.” KnowsDifferentMatterDifferencesWhiteBrainEmotionalDevelopmentComputerParentingDepartmentDisorderAutismHookCablesAbnormalCircuitsAutisticHook UpNormal And AbnormalBad ParentingNeurological Disorders Author:Temple Grandin
“Today, in the Twenty-First Century, an age of jet aircraft, personal computers, wireless telecommunications, laser surgery, and incipient space travel, the mentality with which many presumably educated, intelligent people approach matters of economics and business is, however astonishing it may seem, still that of the Dark Ages.” PeopleFirstsMayStillsMatterSeemsAgeTodayDarkSpaceCenturyComputerApproachEconomicsTwentiesIntelligentEducatedMentalitySurgeryAstonishingJetDark AgesSpace TravelAircraftWirelessLasersPersonal ComputersTelecommunications Author:George Reisman
“You can actually improvise a lot as a voice actor. It's not that entirely different than shooting a live action movie; the characters mouths are quite easy to manipulate once all the information is built into the computer. So you can improvise a lot and it doesn't matter really how far along they are in the process they can really just make the character say something different.” DifferentMatterCharacterActionActorsEasyProcessVoiceInformationComputerMouthsBuiltShootingManipulateAction Movie Author:Seth Rogen
“What, then, is the basic difference between today's computer and an intelligent being? It is that the computer can be made to seebut not to perceive. What matters here is not that the computer is without consciousness but that thus far it is incapable of the spontaneous grasp of pattern--a capacity essential to perception and intelligence.” MadeMatterTodayDifferencesConsciousnessEssentialsComputerPerceptionCapacityIntelligentPatternsPerceiveWhat MattersIncapableSpontaneous Book:Visual Thinking Source: Visual Thinking
“For me, between "Reference" and "Sketching & Conceptualizing" is the "Get the Hell Out of the Studio" step. I most often NEED to shut off the computer, push myself back from my desk and escape the studio space to let possible ideas percolate in my gray matter before committing anything to paper or digital imagery as a sketch or a concept.” NeedsIdeasMatterSpaceStepsHellPaperComputerConceptsStudiosDigitalGrayDesksImagerySketchingGray MatterStudio Space Author:Jeff Fisher
“But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths.” TryingMatterFactsCertainPathEvolutionWalkingComputerModelsBasesStructureChemicalsOrganisms Author:Kevin Kelly
“Consciousness is much more of the implicate order than is matter... Yet at a deeper level [matter and consciousness] are actually inseparable and interwoven, just as in the computer game the player and the screen are united by participation.” MatterOrderGamesLevelsUnitedConsciousnessPlayerComputerDeeperScreensParticipationInseparableComputer Games Author:David Bohm
“It [moviemaking] is about entertaining audiences with great characters and great stories, you want to make people laugh, you want to make people cry, you want to have great music that is memorable. You want a movie that, as soon as it's over, you want to watch it again, just like that. That's what it is, whether it's live-action, animation, hand drawn, computer, special effects, puppet animation, it doesn't matter. That's the goal of a filmmaker.” PeopleWantMatterCharacterStoriesHandsActionGoalWatchesAudienceLaughingSpecialEffectsCryComputerMemorableFilmmakerOver YouEntertainingAnimationMaking People LaughPuppetsGreat MusicGreat CharacterSpecial Effects Author:John Lasseter
“I am a little troubled about the tea service in the electronic computer building. Apparently the members of your staff consume several times as much supplies as the same number of people do in Fuld Hall and they have been especially unfair in the matter of sugar.... I should like to raise the question whether it would not be better for the computer people to come up to Fuld Hall at the end of the day at 5 o'clock and have their tea here under proper supervision.” PeopleShouldLittlesHas BeensEndsMatterNumbersBuildingMembersComputerRaisesCome UpTeaClockThe End Of The DayHallsSugarUnfairStaffSuppliesSupervision Author:John von Neumann
“It all depends on what I'm working on and if there is a deadline involved. Anything that's headed toward a magazine or newspaper is hacked out on the computer; that's a matter of efficiency. I write longer pieces of prose on a typewriter because the act of retyping it for the computer is a useful tactic for revision. Poems tend to be written longhand.” IfsWritingMatterPiecesWrittenDependsInvolvedComputerNewspapersMagazinesProseEfficiencyTacticsDeadlineTypewritersRevisionHacked Author:Kevin Keck
“In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the customer's shifting idea of what their problem is.” IfsIdeasMatterProblemTechnologyComputerSolutionsSolveCustomersMeaningfulProgrammingSoftwareRequirementsShiftingComputer ProgrammingMeasure Of SuccessComputer Software Author:Jeff Atwood
“You don't have to be a spiritual seeker, you can be a businessman dealing with the revolution in computers. You could be a congressman, or a scientist. No matter what area of life and endeavor we are in we are seeing the signs of new-paradigm thinking.” ThinkingMatterSpiritualSeeingRevolutionComputerAreasScientistNo Matter WhatEndeavorBusinessmanSeekersParadigmCongressman Author:Marianne Williamson
“I'm not that particularly talented in terms of making anything or - I'm not technically efficient. I certainly don't know how to draw very well or paint, and I'm not good with computers. But I think the thing that I'm good at is willing something into life, no matter what. I do what it takes to get it done.” ThinkingKnowsWellsMatterDoneTermKnow HowWillingComputerDrawsNo Matter WhatPaintEfficientGet It Done Author:Gregory Crewdson
“I think the increased ubiquity of the internet and networked computing in general allowed me to have some tether no matter where I was geographically. I could log in to a computer from anywhere in the world and access the same information and the same people. It allowed me to transcend the physical differences.” PeopleThinkingWorldMatterDifferencesInformationInternetComputerAccessComputingUbiquity Author:Chelsea Manning
“It doesn't matter how many televisions and computers and pieces of stereo equipment the Chinese send to us, even if they're sending them to us only in return for some funny, little, green pieces of paper. That is a balanced trade. They got what they wanted: the green pieces of paper. We got what we wanted: the plush toys, the computers, the stereo components.” IfsLittlesMatterWantedPiecesTelevisionReturnPaperComputerGreenTradeChineseToysBalancedEquipmentComponents Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“Today the patent office is obsolete. You just take whatever you do, tool up, and start production for six months. At the end of the six months you put the data on all the computer inputs all over the world and you got your business. You can make all your money, and then people can steal it, but by then it doesn't matter because you've made the money up front and you avoid wasting money in lawsuits. [My father] had all these kinds of ideas years ahead of others.” PeopleWorldYearsKindMadeIdeasEndsMatterTodayFatherFrontsMonthsOfficeSixComputerToolsProductionsStealingDataSix MonthsObsoleteInputPatentsLawsuitWasting Money Author:Paul Laffoley
“The most important work I got a chance to be involved in, no matter what I do, is the personal computer... I even knew not to get married until later because I was so obsessed with it. That's my life's work.” ImportantMatterChanceInvolvedComputerMarriedNo Matter WhatObsessedImportant WorkPersonal Computers Author:Bill Gates
“It's often a matter of sitting in front of the computer and worrying. It's what writing comes down to--worrying that things aren't going to work out.” WritingMatterWorryFrontsComputerSittingWork OutGoing To Work Author:Khaled Hosseini
“Faith does not protect you. Medicine and airbags... Those are the things that protect you. God does not protect you. Intelligence protects you. Enlightenment. Put your faith in something with tangible results. How long has it been since someone walked on water? Modern miracles belong to science. Computers, vaccines, space stations... Even the divine miracle of creation. Matter from nothing... In a lab. Who needs God? No! Science is God!” NeedsLongDoeMatterWaterSpaceResultsModernCreationProtectComputerEnlightenmentMiracleMedicineStationsTangibleVaccinesLabsProtect YouNeed GodAirbags Author:Dan Brown
“I feel, holding books, accommodating their weight and breathing their dust, an abiding love. I trust them, in a way that I can't trust my computer, though I couldn't do without it. Books are matter. My books matter. What would I have done through these years without the library and all its lovely books?” WayFeelsYearsI CanBookMatterDoneComputerWeightLibraryLovelyDustBreathingAbidingAbiding Love Author:Lori Lansens
“Supporters of this fundamental change in immigration policy say we need to import more well-educated talent if we're to stay competitive. But exactly whose competitiveness are we talking about? Not the competitiveness of, say, American-born computer engineers. Adjusted for inflation, their earnings haven't gone anywhere in years. That's in part because American companies have been sending so much of their high-tech work abroad. Bringing more foreign-born engineers here under an expanded H1-B visa program, or a point system for that matter, will just depress wages even further.” IfsNeedsYearsWellsHas BeensMatterBornCompanyTalkingGoneTalentHavensPolicyComputerProgramFundamentalsImmigrationEducatedEngineersDepressingEarningSupporterWagesInflationImportsCompetitivenessVisaWell EducatedImmigration Policy Author:Ronald Reagan