“Space and time, not proteins and neurons, hold the answer to the problem of consciousness. When we consider the nerve impulses entering the brain, we realize that they are not woven together automatically, any more than the information is inside a computer.” ProblemTogetherRealizingSpaceAnswersBrainConsciousnessInformationComputerImpulseNervesEnteringTime And SpaceWovenProteinNeurons Author:Robert Lanza
“In improvisation, there is only one time. This is what computer people call real time. The time of inspiration, the time of technically structuring and realizing... the time of playing it, and the time of communicating with the audience, are all one.” PeopleRealInspirationRealizingAudienceComputerCommunicateOne TimeImprovisation Book:Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
“A reason to have computers understand natural language is that it's an extremely effective way of communicating. What I came to realize is that the success of the communication depends on the real intelligence on the part of the listener, and that there are many other ways of communicating with a computer that can be more effective, given that it doesn't have the intelligence.” WayRealReasonLanguageGivenRealizingNaturalCommunicationDependsComputerCommunicateListenersReal Intelligence Author:Terry Winograd
“I didn't realize how good I was with technology until I met my parents... my dad told me "You're good; you should be a computer programmer." I said, "You're bad... you should be a caveman."” ShouldSaidHumorFunnyParentRealizingTechnologyDadMetsComputerMy DadProgrammersComputer Programmers Author:Mike Birbiglia
“You have to take a broader view and realize this is an industry like any other - telecoms, Railroads; they went through consolidation. Why shouldn't the computer industry be any different? This shouldn't have been a surprise to anybody but it seemed to be, and a lot of people thought I was nuts when I said these things. And that's why they are alone as a consolidator.” PeopleInspirationalHas BeensSaidDifferentRealizingViewsIndustryComputerSurpriseNutsRailroadsConsolidationTelecom Author:Larry Ellison
“I began to realize something - to understand the future you have to understand physics. Physics of the last century gave us television, radio, microwaves, gave us the Internet, lasers, transistors, computers - all of that from physics.” LastsRealizingCenturyTelevisionInternetComputerRadioPhysicsLasersMicrowavesTransistors Author:Michio Kaku
“I didn't realize how slow my four-year-old MacBook was until the web team wanted to start using it as the benchmark for a slow computer experience.” YearsWantedRealizingFourTeamComputerFour YearsMacbook Author:Chris Milk
“You look at these past predictions like there's only a market in the world for five computers [as allegedly said by IBM founder Thomas Watson] and you realize it's not a good idea to predict too far into the future.” WorldLooksSaidIdeasPastRealizingFiveComputerGood IdeasFoundersPredictionsWatsonIbm Author:Geoffrey Hinton
“My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn't realize it was at the peak at the time.” RealizingHappenedComputerMajorsPercentEconomicsComputer ScienceUndergraduate Author:Melinda Gates
“I spoke to a blogger. It was election time when we were doing the movie and Hillary Clinton was still in the running. This blogger was doing a story on democratic women who were anti-Hillary. He was on the computer speaking to these women and it made me realize that you can reach a much broader audience online but on the other hand Russell's [Crowe] character argues that you still need to get on the streets and see people face to face, and check your facts.” PeopleNeedsMadeStillsCharacterFactsStoriesHandsRunningFacesRealizingAudienceStreetsComputerElectionDemocraticClintonArguingChecksOnlineSpokesFace To FaceBloggersElection Time Author:Rachel McAdams
“Someone recently talked about mass surveillance and the NSA revelations as being the atomic moment for computer scientists. The atomic bomb was the moral moment for physicists. Mass surveillance is the same moment for computer scientists, when they realize that the things they produce can be used to harm a tremendous number of people.” PeopleMomentsUsedRealizingNumbersMoralProduceComputerMassScientistHarmRevelationsBombsPhysicistSurveillanceNsaAtomic Bomb Author:Edward Snowden
“Evolution is the only thing that exists through time. That is true for computers, or people, or a business. We tend to see things in a static way, and so you see what is. Even in looking at ourselves, what we really are is essentially vessels for our DNA that keeps evolving through time. So seeing that and embracing that reality, and thinking of everything as kind of this perpetual motion machine in which you embrace reality - you don't wish it was different. You realize that it's your puzzle to interact with. You interact with it well, you evolve yourself.” PeopleThinkingKindDifferentRealityWishRealizingEvolutionComputerEmbraceEvolvePuzzlesVesselRough Times Author:Ray Dalio
“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
“The moral of the story is we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around.” PeopleKnowsStoriesCareEarthMovingCoursesRealizingAnimalMoralComputerDancingDon't CareFartMoral Of The Story Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“Depression is a lot like that: slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program for total negativity will build into your system, making life feel more and more unbearale. But you won't even notice it coming on, thinking that it is somehow normal, something about getter older, about turning eight or about turning twelve or turning fifteeen, and then one day you realize that your entire life is just awful, not worth living, a horror and a black blot on the white terrain of human existence. One morning you wake up afraid you are going to live.” ThinkingFeelsYearsMindHumansHeartLife IsBlackRealizingWhiteExistenceMorningHorrorOne DayNormalComputerProgramWake UpEightAwfulDataTwelveNegativityHeart And MindWorth LivingHuman ExistenceTerrainProzac Nation Author:Elizabeth Wurtzel
“The good news (for writers) is that this means that ebooks on computers are more likely to be an enticement to buy the printed book (which is, after all, cheap, easily had, and easy to use) than a substitute for it. You can probably read just enough of the book off the screen to realize you want to be reading it on paper.” WantMeanBookEnoughUseReadingEasyRealizingPaperComputerNewsScreensSubstitutesGood NewsPrintedEnticementPrinted Books Author:Cory Doctorow
“That's what I love about writing. Once you get the words down on paper, in print, they start to make sense. It's like you don't know what you think until it dribbles from your brain down your arm and into your hand and out through your fingers and shows up on the computer screen, and you read it and realize: That's really true; I believe that.” ThinkingKnowsWritingBelieveShowsHandsI BelieveRealizingBrainLike YouArmsPaperComputerFingersScreensMake SensePrintReally TrueDribbleComputer Screen Book:Hard Love Source: Hard Love