“Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison.” ChildrenHas BeensAgeBrainFiveSixComputerOur ChildrenComparisonMetalsToys Author:Claude Vorilhon
“Suppose aliens invade the earth and threaten to obliterate it in a year's time unless human beings can find the Ramsey number for red five and blue five. We could marshal the world's best minds and fastest computers, and within a year we could probably calculate the value. If the aliens demanded the Ramsey number for red six and blue six, however, we would have no choice but to launch a preemptive attack.” IfsWorldYearsMindHumansEarthValuesChoicesHuman BeingsNumbersFiveSixComputerRedBlueAliens Author:Paul Erdos
“People call me an optimist, but I'm really an appreciator ... years ago, I was cured of a badly infected finger with antibiotics when once my doctor could have recommended only a hot water soak or, eventually, surgery.... When I was six years old and had scarlet fever, the first of the miracle drugs, sulfanilamide, saved my life. I'm grateful for computers and photocopiers ... I appreciate where we've come from.” PeopleYearsFirstsWaterDrugSixComputerYears AgoAppreciateDoctorsMiracleHotGratefulFingersSavedCall MeSurgeryOptimistFeverScarletSix Year OldsHot WaterAntibiotics Author:Julian Simon
“I had one typewriter for 50 years, but I have bought seven computers in six years. I suppose that's why Bill Gates is rich, and Underwood is out of business.” YearsRichSixComputerBillsSevenGatesTypewriters Author:Andy Rooney
“Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he's a human calculator. He says it's a skill he learned as a kid. Now he's a math professor at Harvey Mudd. He can find the square root of a six digit number in a few seconds. Practice.” HumansArtKidsGuyNumbersPracticeSkillsSixComputerArt IsRootsMathSecondsProfessorsSquaresHarveyCalculatorsSquare Roots Author:Bill Nye
“3D is like a computer. Every six months that computer that was state of the art is now obsolete.” ArtStatesMonthsSixComputerArt IsSix MonthsObsolete Author:Carl Mazzocone
“There's spatial intelligence. they're, which end up being, people going into math or music. there's mechanical where you work well with your hands. There's an intelligence with language that would lead someone into writing. So it's not necessarily that you're six years old and you know you're going to be a lawyer Or you're going into tech startups or computers. It's something more elemental than that. It's that this is a skill, a way of thinking that comes naturally to me that I was drawn to and it was very clear in childhood.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWritingYearsWellsEndsHandsLanguageClearChildhoodSkillsSixComputerMathLawyerWay Of ThinkingElementalsSix Year OldsSpatial Author:Robert Greene
“Today the patent office is obsolete. You just take whatever you do, tool up, and start production for six months. At the end of the six months you put the data on all the computer inputs all over the world and you got your business. You can make all your money, and then people can steal it, but by then it doesn't matter because you've made the money up front and you avoid wasting money in lawsuits. [My father] had all these kinds of ideas years ahead of others.” PeopleWorldYearsKindMadeIdeasEndsMatterTodayFatherFrontsMonthsOfficeSixComputerToolsProductionsStealingDataSix MonthsObsoleteInputPatentsLawsuitWasting Money Author:Paul Laffoley
“I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.” PeopleThinkingKnowsYearsMeanRealHardStoriesFictionSixComputerEntrepreneurBoringSatReal Story Author:Mark Zuckerberg
“Artemis felt like he was six again and caught hacking the school computers trying to make the test questions harder” TryingSchoolFeltSixComputerTestsHarderCaughtHackingArtemis Author:Eoin Colfer
“Imagine the earth’s population of six billion people reduced to just one hundred representatives. Statistically, that makes 30 white, 70 non-white. It means 6 people own 59% of the wealth and they all live in North America. 80 are in substandard housing. One has an education. One owns a computer. Don’t blame me if it all sounds crazy.” PeopleIfsMeanEarthAmericaSoundWealthWhiteImagineCrazySixComputerHundredBlamePopulationBillionsJust OneRepresentativesHousingNorth AmericaBlame MeDon't Blame Me Author:Grant Morrison