“With nine degrees of warming, computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish. Water supply to the Murray-Darling Basin will fall by half, severely curtailing food production.” LooksFallWaterHalfDegreesComputerProjectsModelsProductionsDisasterNineAustraliaDarlingHabitatFood ProductionVertebratesDisaster Movie Author:Jeff Goodell
“What I proposed was a computer that would be easy to use, mix text and graphics, and sell for about $1,000. Steve Jobs said that it was a crazy idea, that it would never sell, and we didn't want anything like it. He tried to shoot the project down.” WantSaidIdeasUseWould BeJobsEasyCrazyComputerProjectsSellsCrazy Ideas Author:Jef Raskin
“Some software is actually pretty good, by any standard. Think of the Mars Rovers, Google, and the Human Genome Project. Now, that's quality software!” ThinkingHumansQualityComputerProjectsStandardsSoftwareGoogleMarsGenomeGenome ProjectHuman Genome Project Author:Bjarne Stroustrup
“I was inspired by the Hole in the Wall project, where a computer with an internet connection was put in a Delhi slum. When the slum was revisited after a month, the children of that slum had learned how to use the worldwide web.” ChildrenUseWallMonthsInternetComputerProjectsConnectionsInspiredHolesSlumsDelhiInternet Connection Author:Sugata Mitra
“Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.” DoeArtRunningKidsCreativityDesignCreationGeniusDadComputerProjectsCraftsProgrammingCategoriesMumComputer ProgrammingManuscriptsHairdresserArts And Crafts Author:Tabatha Coffey
“Even when I wrote Basic myself the day before I burned it into a computer I wasn't making design changes. I didn't have a testing team. I did all the testing myself. And there was no project methodology or schedule that, there was the notion of coming to a close means testing a lot at the end and making very few changes.” MeanEndsTeamDesignComputerProjectsNotionBurnedSchedulesTestingMethodology Author:Bill Gates
“I spend a lot of time going over old conversation summaries. A lot of the old ones are about ideas that ended in failure, the project didn't work. But hey, you know what? That was five years ago, and now computers are faster, or some new information has come along, the world is different. So we're able to reboot the project.” KnowsWorldYearsIdeasDifferentAbleFiveInformationConversationComputerProjectsYears AgoHeyFasterFive YearsHey YouSummaryNew Information Author:Edward Boyden