“This is what makes me happy: ...Any music-free restaurant ... A grandson who offers to clean the snow off my driveway and also fix my computer ... An evening in bed with a good book. ... A good night's sleep ... As you can see, it doesn't take much to make me happy.” BookHappinessNightSleepOffersBedComputerCleanSnowEveningRestaurantsGood BookMake Me HappyGood NightGrandsonDriveway Author:Art Buchwald
“In the summer of 1988, I received an interesting call from Bill Gates at Microsoft. He asked whether I'd like to come over and talk about building a new operating system at Microsoft for personal computers. What Bill had to offer was the opportunity to build another operating system, one that was portable.” OpportunityInterestingBuildingOffersComputerSummerBillsGatesMicrosoftOperating SystemsPersonal Computers Author:Dave Cutler
“If you offer people a decent service, if you give them you know Internet access, if their phones are not cut off on the trains, you know if you have plugs where they can plug in their computers, and if you have a smiling, cheerful staff; and if you can travel really quickly, then you can make a success out of the rail business.” PeopleIfsKnowsGivingCuttingInternetOffersComputerTrainPhonesAccessDecentStaffCheerfulRailPlugsInternet Access Author:Richard Branson
“Cloud computing offers individuals access to data and applications from nearly any point of access to the Internet, offers businesses a whole new way to cut costs for technical infrastructure, and offers big computer companies a potentially giant market for hardware and services.” WayWholeBigsIndividualCompanyCuttingInternetCostOffersComputerCloudsAccessDataGiantsApplicationNew WaysInfrastructureComputingHardwareCloud Computing Author:Jamais Cascio
“I think people always appreciate somebody else's informed educated opinion. To the degree that anybody with a computer can offer a journalistic point of view whether or not they have a degree, it sort of alters the validity of you have to place on anyone's individual comment.” PeopleThinkingIndividualViewsOpinionOffersDegreesComputerAppreciatePoint Of ViewEducatedCommentValidityJournalistic Author:Seth Green
“The computer needs...even by accident, offers incredible beautiful things that are very seductive. And if you forget about, or if you don't have an idea to begin with, it is very easy to be seduced and that is not a good use of the computer.” IfsNeedsIdeasUseBeautifulEasyForgetOffersComputerIncrediblesAccidentsBeautiful ThingsSeductive Author:Massimo Vignelli
“Nowadays we can do computer experiments using Mathematica, and even solve a system of 42 equations. This offers another route to knowledge, rather than mere ideas.” IdeasScienceCan DoOffersComputerMathematicsMereSolveExperimentsRoutesEquations Author:John Forbes Nash
“Terrified of being alone, yet afraid of intimacy, we experience widespread feelings of emptiness, of disconnection, of the unreality of self. And here the computer, a companion without emotional demands, offers a compromise. You can be a loner, but never alone. You can interact, but need never feel vulnerable to another person.” NeedsFeelsPersonsSelfFeelingsLonelinessEmotionalOffersDemandComputerCompromiseVulnerableIntimacyIsolationEmptinessCompanionTerrifiedLonerUnrealityDisconnection Book:The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit Source: The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit
“Computer and video games represent one of the most important new media developments of this generation. Unlike many other forms of entertainment they offer players the opportunity to explore, be creative, learn through interaction and express themselves to others. It is vitally important that we protect and nurture this new art form so that it can reach its full potential. Like most new forms of artistic expression that have come before (music, novels, movies), the primary critics of video games are the people that do not play them.” PeopleArtImportantPlayFormOpportunityGamesNovelCreativePlayerGenerationsMediaExpressionDevelopmentOffersProtectComputerCriticsEntertainmentVideoArtisticPrimariesInteractionNurtureBe CreativeNurturingThis GenerationFull PotentialArtistic ExpressionNew Media Author:Will Wright
“One of the big challenges I've thought about in making record is that the role of computers has become so inescapable and computers offer so many possibilities for creativity, but they also make you lazy.” BigsChallengesRolesCreativityRecordsPossibilityOffersComputerLazyBig Challenges Author:D.A. Wallach
“I am trying to make some kind of connection to what is going on in the world, to make some sort of contact. And I use the instruments that our modern world offers, these extraordinary instruments of photography and film and computers.” WorldTryingKindUseFilmModernOffersComputerPhotographyConnectionsInstrumentsExtraordinaryContactModern WorldPhotography And Film Author:Leon Golub
“I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.” ThinkingMayAbilityOffersComputerCommunicateSurfaceBad ThingsCabinetsTypewritersCyberFilingAbility To CommunicateHermaphroditesFiling Cabinet Author:David Mamet
“The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer them. He had been extremely chastened to realize that although he originally came from a world which had cars and computers and ballet and Armagnac, he didn't, by himself, know how any of it worked. He couldn't do it. Left to his own devices he couldn't build a toaster. He could just about make a sandwich and that was it.” KnowsWorldLittlesLeftRealizingKnow HowCarOffersComputerAvailableDevicesBalletSandwichesGrimToasters Book:Mostly Harmless Source: Mostly Harmless