“The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.” PeopleKnowsWantPersonsLastsGuyComputerCreatingDocumentation Author:Adam Osborne
“What's your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that's always on your person.” ShouldPersonsTechnologyComputerPersonal Computers Author:Bill Joy
“Anyone who knows me knows how much time I spend on computers. I'm a computer addict. Every young person deserves to have a computer in his or her home. It's also cool that CFY will also make sure that they learn how to use them.” KnowsPersonsUseHomeYoungKnow HowComputerDeserveKnow MeAddict Author:Bow Wow
“If one person sits down at their computer one day and types one word, dose that affect the future? If that one person didn't type that one word, would the future's history be changed? Dose their one word even mean anything? Dose my one (times a lot) word mean anything? Dose that one person's one word even get read-once? If I wasn't sitting here writing my words, would my future be different?” IfsWritingMeanPersonsDifferentChangedTypeOne DayComputerSittingOne TimeOne WordMy FutureDoseThat One Person Author:Esther Earl
“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
“When developers of digital technologies design a program that requires you to interact with a computer as if it were a person, they ask you to accept in some corner of your brain that you might also be conceived of as a program.” IfsPersonsMightAsksBrainAcceptingTechnologyDesignComputerProgramCornersDigitalArtificial IntelligenceDevelopersDigital Technology Book:You Are Not a Gadget Source: You Are Not a Gadget
“Computer science is the most misunderstood field there is. You are being paid to solve puzzles. For a person who has practiced meditation in past lives, that is the way your mind works.” WayMindPersonsPastScienceMeditationFieldsComputerPaidSolvePuzzlesMisunderstoodComputer SciencePast Life Author:Frederick Lenz
“Programming will aid a person in developing their mind and will aid their meditation. I find that people who have pursued programming are doing much better in their meditation.” PeopleMindPersonsScienceMeditationComputerAidsDevelopingProgrammingPursuedComputer Science Author:Frederick Lenz
“I am the person I want to be. I got to teach and had some of the greatest times in my life learning that I had some teaching skills and doing some incredible things teaching 200 hours of computers a year to fifth graders, making them experts at certain things.” WantYearsPersonsCertainHoursTeachTeachingSkillsComputerIncrediblesExpertsFifthLife LearningFifth Graders Author:Steve Wozniak
“I'm a very simple person. I don't use computers.” PersonsUseSimpleComputerSimple Person Author:Carrie-Anne Moss
“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
“In case you're not a computer person, I should probably point out that 'Real Soon Now' is a technical term meaning 'sometime before the heat-death of the universe, maybe'.” ShouldPersonsRealUniverseTermCasesComputerHeat Author:Scott Fahlman
“The only time I've ever been mistaken for someone else is - and this arguable still - when a person came up to me on the boardwalk of Ocean City, New Jersey and said, "You look a lot like that guy from computer ads" and I said, "There is a reason because I am that guy," and the guy looked at me for a minute, laughed and said, "That's a funny joke, but you really do look like him." He thought I was not me.” LooksPersonsSaidStillsReasonGuyCitiesMinutesOceanComputerJokesLaughedAdsMistakenOnly TimeJerseyThat GuyNew JerseyFunny JokesBoardwalks Author:John Hodgman
“Like a lot of people in the computer industry, Keith Malinowski had spent his whole life being the smartest person in the room, and like most of his fellows the experience left him with a rather high opinion of his opinions.” PeoplePersonsWholeLeftRoomsOpinionIndustryComputerFellowsWhole LifeKeith Author:Rick Cook
“I don't own a computer. I've never seen anything online at all - nothing. I don't own a word processor. I have none of that stuff. It's not an act of rebellion. I'm just not a gadget person.” PersonsStuffComputerOnlineRebellionGadgetsProcessors Author:Woody Allen
“I think to be a rich and successful person in Roman society would be pretty fabulous. They had all of the comforts we want now - central heating, baths, medicine. If I could choose not to indulge in all the things they did I don't agree with, then I could be perfectly comfortable without a mobile phone, computer or anything.” IfsThinkingWantPersonsWould BeSuccessfulRichComfortComfortableComputerAgreeMedicinePhonesIf I CouldFabulousBathsIndulgeMobileIndulge InMobile PhonesHeatingSuccessful Person Author:Martin Shaw
“I did not have a computer until recently. I'm not really a computer person; I'm really hands-on. I can't make it work if it's all behind the black curtain. It doesn't interest me. I want to see what's actually happening back there.” IfsWantPersonsI CanHandsBlackInterestBehindsComputerHappeningsCurtains Author:Scoot McNairy
“Letting agencies are unregulated. They charge a search fee, which in some cases can run into several hundred pounds, but the search consists of no more than checking through a computer database to see whether they have any properties for that person.” PersonsRunningCasesComputerHundredPropertyAgencyPoundsFeesDatabases Author:Jeremy Corbyn
“I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computer and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.” FirstsKindPersonsTogetherInterestMetsComputerAll KindsSense Of HumorGood FriendBest FriendFirst PersonGarageElectronicsPranks Author:Steve Jobs
“Computers have their own aleatoric aspect, too. They crash! But I'm a knob person. I like twiddling knobs.” PersonsComputerAspectCrashKnobs Author:Zeena Parkins
“To be a modern person in 2012, you are often required to have some electronics in your life. And I do. I try to put that phone down, put the computer away, and get out there and hike in the woods; feel it in my feet, feel it in my hands; get out in the garden and feel the soil under my fingers, my fingertips and my fingernails. I try to be involved in nature in a very tactile way. I think that's important.” ThinkingWayFeelsTryingPersonsImportantHandsFeetModernInvolvedComputerGardenFingersPhonesWoodsSoilFingertipsElectronicsFingernailsTactile Author:Ed Begley, Jr.
“Groupings of people that get together, think things through, come out to plan and so on, like unions or true political organizations, they've disintegrated. And people tend to be atomized - you get down to a society based on social units based on an atom - an atomic element - which is a person and their computer. Not a society that is going to be able to function freely and democratically. The tendency is there; it doesn't have to be, but its something to worry about.” PeopleThinkingPersonsAbleTogetherPoliticalSocialWorryPlansElementsComputerOrganizationFunctionUnionsTendenciesAtomsUnitsGet Together Author:Noam Chomsky
“Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson. Unix was basically his, likewise C's predecessor, likewise much of the basis of Plan 9 (though Rob Pike was the real force in getting it together). And in the meantime Ken created the first computer chess master and pretty much rewrote the book on chess endgames. He is quite a phenomenon.” FirstsPersonsBookRealTogetherForceCareersPlansInfluenceMastersComputerBasesChessPhenomenonPredecessorsEndgameUnix Author:Dennis Ritchie
“In the future, every human will have a digital model of their body stored in computers. When someone needs a new shoe or a new bra or a new prosthesis or a new brace, s/he'll just fabricate it from the digital model themselves and then the device or article will be delivered to the home without even having to go to a retail store. The shoe, the bra, the brace, it'll be the person's apparel, the person's device, no one else's. It'll be exquisitely comfortable and functional. So this whole notion today where we have sizing to fit across humans is just utterly absurd.” NeedsHumansPersonsWholeHomeBodyTodayFitComfortableComputerModelsNotionShoesStoresAbsurdDigitalDevicesArticlesRetailBrasBracesApparelHuman WillFabricateNew Shoes Author:Hugh Herr
“I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.” PersonsUsePurposeLiteratureTechnologyComputer Author:Dave Barry
“A company can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on firewalls, intrusion detection systems and encryption and other security technologies, but if an attacker can call one trusted person within the company, and that person complies, and if the attacker gets in, then all that money spent on technology is essentially wasted.” IfsPersonsMoneyCompanyTechnologySecurityCallingWasteComputerHundredSafetyDollarsTrustedAttackingHackersIntrusionDetectionEncryptionComplying Author:Kevin Mitnick
“'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.” MeanPersonsFacesSongNextFeltLevelsComputerRuinsNext Day Author:Taylor Swift
“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.
“All of a sudden, we've lost a lot of control,' he said. 'We can't turn off our internet; we can't turn off our smartphones; we can't turn off our computers. You used to ask a smart person a question. Now, who do you ask? It starts with g-o, and it's not God.” PersonsSaidUsedTurnsAsksLostInternetComputerSmartTurn OffSmartphonesSmart Person Author:Steve Wozniak
“isaac knows how stupid i find these things, and he finds them just as stupid as i do. like lol. now, if there's anything stupider than buddy lists, it's lol. if anyone ever uses lol with me, i rip my computer right out of the wall and smash it over the nearest head. i mean, it's not like anyone's laughing out loud about the things they lol. i think it should be spelled loll, like what a lobotomized person's tongue does. loll. loll. i can't think any more. loll. loll!” IfsThinkingKnowsShouldMeanPersonsDoeI CanUseLaughingKnow HowStupidWallComputerTongueListsLoudRipBuddyIsaac Author:David Levithan
“Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.” LoveShouldFirstsPersonsUseFunnyMarriageInternetComputerLove And MarriageMarriage LoveFunny Marriage AdviceCelebrity RelationshipPerfect MarriageShort MarriageHonest Relationship Author:Will Ferrell