“Some traders still think that a computer could not trade as well as they can.” ThinkingWellsStillsComputerTradeTraders Author:Thomas Peterffy
“I remain fearless of airplanes after 9/11. But during a trip to Los Angeles on a Boeing 767, I couldn't keep my mind from drifting: What's the largest piece of this airplane that could crash into the World Trade Center, explode out the other side, and survive intact? The landing gear? My computer battery? My belt buckle? My wedding ring?” WorldMindSidesPiecesComputerTradeRingsFearlessLos AngelesAirplaneCrashExtinctionBeltsGearsLandingDriftingBatteriesWorld TradeBoeingWorld Trade CenterBucklesWedding RingBelt Buckles Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“I write exclusively using computers. Pens and typewriters can fsck right off - I wrote my first half million words in my teens on a manual typewriter (had to trade it for a new one due to keys snapping from metal fatigue) so I am not a pen or typewriter fetishist.” WritingFirstsHalfMillionsKeysComputerTradeDuesPensMetalsTeensFatigueTypewritersManualsSnapping Author:Charles Stross
“In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.” ArtMadeImportantEndsComputerTradeBudgetsProgrammingThe End Of The DayVersusAthleticsComputer ProgrammingTrade Offs Author:Bill Gates
“Everything - design and technology and materials - has changed since the World Trade Center was built. A lot of it has to do with computers, which allow us to be far more efficient as well as structurally sound.” WorldWellsSoundTechnologyDesignChangedMaterialsComputerBuiltTradeEfficientWorld TradeWorld Trade Center Author:Frank Gehry
“It doesn't matter how many televisions and computers and pieces of stereo equipment the Chinese send to us, even if they're sending them to us only in return for some funny, little, green pieces of paper. That is a balanced trade. They got what they wanted: the green pieces of paper. We got what we wanted: the plush toys, the computers, the stereo components.” IfsLittlesMatterWantedPiecesTelevisionReturnPaperComputerGreenTradeChineseToysBalancedEquipmentComponents Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“Many people who have lost out in the last few decades voted for Trump. Trump will have a difficult time turning them into winners. The jobs of these people are not at risk because of Chinese or Mexican workers, but because of robots and computers. And new trade barriers and higher tariffs are not going to change that.” PeopleJobsLastsLostDifficultRiskTrumpHigherComputerTradeWorkersDecadesChineseWinnerBarriersRobotsMexicanDifficult TimesTariffs Author:Nicholas Bloom