“Another misconception is that an order is canceled when you hit 'cancel' on your computer. But, the fact is it's canceled only when the market gets the cancellation.” FactsOrderComputerMisconceptionCancellation Author:Arthur Levitt Jr
“I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd therefore is somebody who uses a computer in order to use a computer.” PeopleThinkingPersonsUseOrderComputerTelephonesNerd Author:Douglas Adams
“The attribution of intelligence to machines, crowds of fragments, or other nerd deities obscures more than it illuminates. When people are told that a computer is intelligent, they become prone to changing themselves in order to make the computer appear to work better, instead of demanding that the computer be changed to become more useful.” PeopleOrderChangedComputerMachinesIntelligentCrowdsArtificial IntelligenceNerdFragmentsDeitiesAttribution Book:You Are Not a Gadget Source: You Are Not a Gadget
“I am a night creature, and I write from midnight till dawn, secluded in my office and surrounded by my collection of dragons (I have 400 of them). I only use Macintosh computers, which I name in dynastic order. Right now I'm using MacDragon 5. Only the devil is able to decipher my handwriting.” WritingUseAbleNightOrderNamesRight NowCreaturesOfficeComputerDevilDawnCollectionsDragonsMidnightHandwritingDecipherMacintoshSecludedMacintosh Computers Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“We couldn't build quantum computers unless the universe were quantum and computing. We can build such machines because the universe is storing and processing information in the quantum realm. When we build quantum computers, we're hijacking that underlying computation in order to make it do things we want: little and/or/not calculations. We're hacking into the universe.” WantLittlesOrderUniverseInformationComputerMachinesRealmsQuantumCalculationsProcessingHackingComputingComputationHijacking Author:Seth Lloyd
“At extremely high processing speeds we are able to find patterns of order in what other people would perceive as chaos.” PeopleAbleScienceOrderComputerChaosPatternsSpeedPerceiveComputer ScienceProcessing Author:Frederick Lenz
“People have to be free to investigate computer security. People have to be free to look for the vulnerabilities and create proof of concept code to show that they are true vulnerabilities in order for us to secure our systems.” PeopleLooksShowsOrderSecurityComputerConceptsProofSecureCodeVulnerabilityComputer Security Author:Edward Snowden
“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
“There's a theory, and I think the theory is right, that in order to make a change you've got to make the whole language of the page harmonious. Well, that's a lot easier with a computer.” ThinkingWellsWholeOrderLanguageTheoryEasierComputerPagesMaking ChangesHarmonious Author:Robert Caro
“A big book is a hard thing to manage - I find the computer makes it easier to keep it in order, and to keep the old drafts (which I sometimes go back to) without drowning in paper.” BookSometimesHardBigsOrderEasierPaperComputerManageDrowningHard ThingsBig Book Author:Kate Grenville
“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
“You're gonna check my computer records? Is that important? I don't think the government needs to know how I feel about teen Asian sluts in order to fight terrorism.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsFeelsImportantGovernmentOrderFightingKnow HowRecordsComputerTerrorismChecksAsian Author:Greg Giraldo
“Usually I work with a digital camera and compose my works digitally or give them a finish on the computer, in order to make them meet my ideas perfectly.” GivingIdeasOrderComputerCamerasDigitalDigital Cameras Author:Loretta Lux
“Before, the myth of photography doesn't lie was used in order to cover up tricks. If I [make a] portrait [of] you, accommodate you, illuminate you, put make up on you or use a filter, am I not manipulating reality? The only difference is that now I can do it from the computer in the postclick instead of the preclick. If I decide to photograph something instead of something else, I also manipulate reality. Of course a photograph can lie or commit abuse, but it always could.” IfsI CanUseRealityUsedLyingOrderCoursesCan DoDifferencesComputerPhotographyAbusePhotographMythTricksCommitPortraitsManipulateFiltersAccommodateI Can Do ItCover Ups Author:Pedro Meyer
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.” LifeGivingShouldWritingHumansProblemMotivationalAbleScienceOrderDiesCultureFightingHuman BeingsKnowledgeLearningPlansAdviceDyingDesignBuildingWallBalanceComfortComputerProgramAccountsManagementAtheistSolveBonesShipsCooksMealsInsectsEquationsBadassInvasionSonnetButchersDiapersHogManureSpecializationTastyStranger In A Strange LandRenaissance Man Author:Robert A. Heinlein
“The technocrat is the natural friend of the dictator—computers and dictatorship; but the revolutionary lives in the gap which separates technical progress from social totality, and inscribed there his dream of permanent revolution. This dream, therefore, is itself action, reality, and an effective menace to all established order; it renders possible what it dreams about.” DreamRealityActionOrderSocialNaturalProgressRevolutionComputerPermanentRevolutionaryGapsDictatorshipDictatorMenaceTotality Author:Gilles Deleuze
“I don't want the words to be naked the way they are in faxes or in the computer. I want them to be covered by an envelope that you have to rip open in order to get at. I want there to be a waiting time -a pause between the writing and the reading. I want us to be careful about what we say to each other. I want the miles between us to be real and long. This will be our law -that we write our dailiness and our suffering very, very carefully.” WayWantWritingLongRealLawSufferingOrderReadingWaitingComputerCarefulMilesNakedCoveredBe CarefulBeing RealPausesRipEnvelopesFax Author:Siri Hustvedt