“People are making a lot of music and higher and higher quality. I can't say the same thing for how people are listening to music. People are hearing music through terrible speakers, little computer speakers, there's a lot to get back to in terms of hi-fi and people listening to better quality, technically better quality music.” PeopleLittlesI CanTermQualityListeningHigherTerribleComputerHearingGet BackSpeakersListening To MusicHearing MusicQuality Music Author:James Taylor
“With the computer and programming languages, mathematics has newly-acquired tools, and its notation should be reviewed in the light of them. The computer may, in effect, be used as a patient, precise, and knowledgeable "native speaker" of mathematical notation.” ShouldMayLightUsedLanguageEffectsComputerToolsMathematicsPatientMathematicalProgrammingNativeSpeakersPreciseProgramming LanguagesKnowledgeable Author:Kenneth E. Iverson
“The computer seems easy because Apple makes the products so easy to use at home. It's the simple things, like getting the TV set up or getting the speakers to work. That drives me crazy.” UseHomeSeemsEasySimpleCrazyTvsProductsComputerApplesSpeakersSimple ThingsDrive Me Crazy Author:Chris O'Donnell
“My first epiphany that this might work came on my first day, when I went into biofeedback. They hooked me up to computers through electrodes, put me in a comfortable lounge chair, put an eye pillow over my face, slipped speakers onto my head and played an audio guided visualization.” FirstsMightEyeFacesComfortableComputerChairsSpeakersPillowVisualizationHookedEpiphanyAudio Author:Brad Willis
“When I'm listening to stuff on the computer or through a horrible little speaker on my phone, and then I hear the real version with the bass and everything, I sometimes don't like it as much. I definitely believe that any medium is viable in that respect.” BelieveLittlesRealSometimesStuffListeningComputerPhonesHorribleVersionsMediumsSpeakersBass Author:Kevin Shields
“We're very aggressive speakers. I remember when I was with one of my roommates in New York - and she's Portuguese, too - and we were in an Apple store talking about a computer in Portuguese. Some guy comes up to us and goes, "Hey, hey! Peace, peace! Stop arguing." It's not arguing. This is really just how we talk.” RememberGuyComputerArguingAggressiveSpeakersRemember WhenPortugueseRoommate Author:Daniela Ruah
“Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the computer science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.” GivenKnownCareersComputerSevenDepartmentAcademicSpeakersComputer ScienceDwarfs Book:The last lecture Source: The last lecture