“Maybe you weren't born with a silver spoon in your mouth, but like every American, you carry a deed to 635 million acres of public lands. That's right. Even if you don't own a house or the latest computer on the market, you own Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and many other natural treasures.” IfsHouseBornNaturalMillionsLandComputerMouthsAreasDeedsTreasureGoldenSilverGatesRecreationSpoonsAcresCanyonsGrand CanyonYosemiteYellowstoneSilver SpoonsPublic Lands Author:John Garamendi
“The traditions of Hollywood are grand and great and are going to survive forever, in a way. But they're not going to be the only way for much longer. The technology is such now that you don't have to have millions of dollars to make a movie. You can make one with a computer.” WayMillionsTechnologyForeverComputerTraditionHollywoodDollars Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“When we had no computers, we had no programming problem either. When we had a few computers, we had a mild programming problem. Confronted with machines a million times as powerful, we are faced with a gigantic programming problem.” ProblemPowerfulMillionsComputerMachinesProgramming Author:Edsger Dijkstra
“John Sculley ruined Apple and he ruined it by bringing a set of values to the top of Apple which were corrupt and corrupted some of the top people who were there, drove out some of the ones who were not corruptible, and brought in more corrupt ones and paid themselves collectively tens of millions of dollars and cared more about their own glory and wealth than they did about what built Apple in the first place which was making great computers for people to use.” PeopleFirstsUseValuesWealthMillionsComputerGloryBuiltPaidDollarsApplesRuined Author:Steve Jobs
“I tend to believe that computers are drawing kids -- and adults -- away from reading purely because they provide an alternative, vast source of spare-time amusement and entertainment. I recently heard a frightening statistic: there are less than one million true readers in this country (those who read every day instead of one book per year on a beach). Terrifying.” YearsBelieveBookCountryKidsReadingMillionsHeardSourceReaderComputerAdultsEntertainmentDrawingAlternativesBeachFrighteningSparesAmusementSpare Time Author:Tim Lebbon
“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
“Congress hasn't declared war on the countries - the majority of them are our allies - but without asking for public permission, NSA is running network operations against them that affect millions of innocent people. And for what? So we can have secret access to a computer in a country we're not even fighting?” PeopleWarCountryRunningFightingSecretMillionsComputerAskingMajorityCongressAccessInnocentOperationsAlliesPermissionNsa Author:Edward Snowden
“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
“The biggest effect of the personal computer revolution has been to allow millions and millions of people to experience computers themselves decades before they ever would have in the old paradigm.” PeopleHas BeensMillionsEffectsRevolutionComputerDecadesParadigmPersonal Computers Author:Steve Jobs
“Why is it that I notice so many brilliant scientists using Macs for their personal computers; why does the Lawrence Livermore & Berkeley Labs buy millions of dollars worth of Macs?” DoeMillionsComputerScientistDollarsBrilliantLabsMacsBerkeleyPersonal Computers Author:Lene
“When I was in prison, a Colombian drug lord, offered me $5 million in cash to manipulate a computer system so that he would be released. I turned him down.” Would BeLordMillionsDrugComputerPrisonCashManipulateComputer Systems Author:Kevin Mitnick
“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 traveled the world ten times over doing something I never thought I'd do in a million years. I found myself in Tokyo, Japan. I (was in) a Dell Computer commercial, the first thing I had ever done, and I fell in love with it. I fell in love with the green screens, I fell in love with (everything). The translator was explaining everything to me. It was a passion like I had never felt before. I came back and it took me five years to really accept that that was okay.” WorldYearsFirstsDonePassionFoundFeltAcceptingMillionsFiveTenComputerOkayGreenScreensFive YearsJapanTraveledExplainingTranslatorsTokyoDell Author:Drew Waters
“I spend so much time on the Internet...I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never going to stop reading.” FeelsBookProblemTimeReadingMillionsModernWorstInternetComputerPagesSpendingReading BooksActualityModernisation Author:Aziz Ansari
“I think about the period of, like, the '70s and early '80s where nobody had money to make big movies and there was no CGI or anything like that and people had to get super creative. And then, you know, when you've got somebody who can paint you any picture on a computer and you get hundreds of millions of dollars to make a movie, its almost like the creativity diminishes somewhat.” PeopleThinkingKnowsBigsCreativityMillionsCreativePeriodsComputerDollarsPaintDiminish80sBig MovieCgi Author:Ethan Suplee
“Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.” DoneTodayForceMillionsTechnologyIntegrityComputerSlaveCodeProgrammingSoftwareBricksFunny InspirationalBrutesProgrammersPyramidsComputer ProgrammingProgramming LanguagesEgyptianComputer LanguageHardwareSoftware DesignBrute ForceComputer ProgrammersComputer SoftwareCode QualityEgyptian Pyramids Author:Alan Kay
“The latest computer modeling I've seen indicates that at mid-century, there might be 150 million people classified as "environmental refugees."” PeopleMightMillionsCenturyComputerEnvironmentalRefugeeModeling Author:Bill McKibben
“Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.” PeopleTurnsPayMillionsInternetComputerAvailableBoredSiteIncentivesClicksFeesTurn Off Author:Nathan Myhrvold