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“People tend to think that mathematicians always work in sterile conditions, sitting around and staring at the screen of a computer, or at a ceiling, in a pristine office. But in fact, some of the best ideas come when you least expect them, possibly through annoying industrial noise.”

People Thinking Ideas Facts Conditions Office Computer Sitting Screens Noise Staring Annoying Mathematician Ceilings Sitting Around Pristine

Book:Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality

Source: Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality

“To me there is no more depressing sight than a five-year-old staring at a screen, unsmiling, mouse in hand. Besides whatever dreadful things this prolonged exposure to screens is doing to their brains, computer games tend to be solitary affairs, and produce little laughter.”

Years Littles Hands Games Brain Five Produce Computer Laughter Sight Affair Screens Staring Five Years Solitary Depressing Mice Exposure Five Year Olds Computer Games

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“... [I] recall thinking that the computer would never advance much further than this. Call me naïve, but I seemed to have underestimated the universal desire to sit in a hard plastic chair and stare at a screen until your eyes cross.”

Thinking Hard Eye Desire Computer Crosses Universal Screens Staring Chairs Call Me Plastic Recalls Underestimated

Book:Me Talk Pretty One Day

Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day

“During the downtime on tour, I simply walk from room to room, staring into my computer.”

Walks Rooms Computer Staring Downtime

Author:Mark Hoppus

“Getting tired of sitting, staring at my computer screen, day after day, where everyone is two-dimensional, reduced to an avatar photo, status updates, or maybe some carefully curated vacation photos. There's something exhausting about that after a while. I found myself wanting to hear voices.”

Two Found Voice Computer Sitting Tired Screens Staring Vacation Exhausting Updates Getting Tired Computer Screen Status Updates

Author:Brad Listi

“In terms of how the music developed, it was my normal process, which I would say is really a hybrid process of sketching on bits of paper, playing the piano, playing synthesisers, using the computer, staring out of the window, finding things I'd forgotten about, happy accidents, failed plans, best intentions, equipment failures. It is a multidimensional process incorporating a lot of planning and intention and a lot of randomness. Ultimately I just follow the material where it wants to go a lot of the time.”

“Doesn't it seem ironic that people fear that we might become alienated by communicating with each other through computers, when we are already staring at these boxes in our living rooms for seven or eight hours a day, slack-jawed and saying nothing to anyone on either side and not talking back to it.”

People Seems Might Sides Hours Rooms Talking Computer Seven Boxes Communicate Eight Staring Ironic Living Room Not Talking Saying Nothing Talking Back

Author:Howard Rheingold

“The pair of them were staring at the computer screen like two dogs watching animal planet: very focused, but incapable of turning up the volume or changing the channel. -Manny and Butch”

Two Animal Dog Planets Computer Focused Screens Staring Pairs Volume Incapable Two Dogs Computer Screen

Book:Lover Unleashed: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

Source: Lover Unleashed: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood