“I use Windows; '98 second edition and it works very good for me. You know, I just started on the computer about 9 months ago and am fascinated with the possibilities. I don't know what I would do without it now.” KnowsUsePossibilityMonthsComputerWindowVery GoodFascinated Author:Jimmy Carl Black
“The origins and travels of our purchases remain matters of indifference, although to the more imaginative at least a slight dampness at the bottom of a carton, or an obscure code printed along a computer cable, may hint at processes of manufacture and transport nobler and more mysterious, more worthy of wonder and study, than the very goods themselves.” MayMatterProcessWonderStudyComputerBottomVery GoodWorthyMysteriousCodeIndifferenceGoodsObscureImaginativeCablesPrintedHintsTransport Author:Alain de Botton
“I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.” ArtHandsUsedBitsInterestTechnologyRichComputerPaintVery GoodDataExposedGamingFusionArt And Technology Author:Aaron Koblin
“We have the ability, at such high fidelity, to simulate the physical world through computers. But when the spiritual world or human behavior comes into play, we don't have a very good model for that at all.” WorldHumansPlaySpiritualAbilityBehaviorComputerModelsVery GoodHuman BehaviorFidelitySimulateHigh Fidelity Author:Buzz Aldrin
“Until very recently, most knowledge was inaccessible to people who couldn't read text. But this is changing. The computer opens up other channels of gaining knowledge. If someone is blind, we now have very good machines that will read to him. If someone can't recognize letters, he also will have access to knowledge through sound and images.” PeopleIfsSoundComputerLettersMachinesBlindVery GoodAccessInaccessibleGaining Knowledge Author:Seymour Papert
“Most of the poems I write go through forty versions and then stay in a file on my computer. I'm not very good at sending stuff out or feeling that something is ready to send out and I never have been. Part of the problem is that as soon as a poem is finished, it stops being all that interesting to me.” WritingFeelingsProblemInterestingComputerVery GoodForty Author:Nick Laird