“When you zap things with light to build quantum computers, you're hacking existing systems. You're hijacking the computation that's already happening in the universe, just like a hacker takes over someone else's computer.” LightUniverseComputerHappeningsQuantumHackingHackersComputationHijacking Author:Seth Lloyd
“I have a computer screen near my seat where I monitor the overall health of the vehicle and pick up any problems that might be occurring early on or once we see any kind of a malfunction or anything unusual that's happening, we can look at the data and figure out what that is.” LooksKindProblemMightFiguresComputerHappeningsPicksScreensDataSeatsUnusualVehicleComputer ScreenMalfunctionOverall Health Author:Laurel Clark
“We should never allow computers to make inherently governmental decisions in terms of the application of military force, even if that's happening on the internet.” IfsShouldForceTermDecisionMilitaryInternetComputerHappeningsApplicationMilitary Force Author:Edward Snowden
“There is no doubt that human survival will continue to depend more and more on human intellect and technology. It is idle to argue whether this is good or bad. The point of no return was passed long ago, before anyone knew it was happening.” HumansLongTechnologyDoubtDependsReturnComputerSurvivalHappeningsIntellectArguingNo DoubtLong AgoIdle Author:Theodosius Dobzhansky
“I think that having been around computers all my life - my father had brought home personal computers at a very early age in the '70s - so being around computers from a very early age perhaps I had even subconsciously seen the exponential progression of what was happening with computers.” ThinkingHomeAgeFatherComputerHappeningsProgressionPersonal Computers Author:Barry Ptolemy
“Real life is happening outside and not in front of a computer.” RealLife IsFrontsComputerHappeningsReal Life Author:Sigmar Gabriel
“I did not have a computer until recently. I'm not really a computer person; I'm really hands-on. I can't make it work if it's all behind the black curtain. It doesn't interest me. I want to see what's actually happening back there.” IfsWantPersonsI CanHandsBlackInterestBehindsComputerHappeningsCurtains Author:Scoot McNairy
“... the thing that's happening today vis-á-vis computer imaging, vis-á-vis alteration, is that it no longer needs to be based on the real at all. I don't want to get into jargon - let's just say that photography to me no longer pertains to the rhetoric of realism; it pertains more perhaps to the rhetoric of the unreal rather than the real or of course the hyperreal.” WantNeedsRealTodayCoursesComputerPhotographyHappeningsRealismRhetoricUnrealJargonAlterationsImaging Author:Barbara Kruger
“You can sit down with your child and prompt him to show you something - perhaps how to play a game [on the computer]. By learning a game, you're getting close to the kid and gaining insight into ways of learning. The kid can see this happening and feels respected, so it fosters the relationship between you and the kid.” WayFeelsChildrenPlayShowsKidsGamesComputerHappeningsOur ChildrenInsightYour ChildrenPrompts Author:Seymour Papert
“As soon as it's behind computers and machines, which the majority of the planet loves, I find it cold. I need to hear breathing. I like the idea of the mic being a captation of everything that's happening around.” NeedsIdeasBehindsPlanetsColdComputerHappeningsMachinesMajorityBreathingMics Author:Lou Doillon
“When I pull out vinyl - which isn't that often anymore - it's undeniable that I get a different feeling. There's a different physiology happening between the sound waves and the body that doesn't happen with music playing off the computer.” DifferentFeelingsBodyHappensSoundComputerHappeningsWaveVinylPhysiologyDifferent FeelingsSound Waves Author:Beck
“Computers don't seem real to me because there's a sheet of glass between you and whatever is happening.” RealSeemsComputerHappeningsGlassesSheets Author:Stanley Donwood
“As the popular trust in science fades - and many sociologists say that's happening today - people will develop a distrust of purely "scientific" psychology. Researchers in the universities haven't picked up on this; they're more interested in genetics and computer models of thinking than ever. But, in general, there is a huge distrust of the scientific establishment now.” PeopleThinkingTodayPsychologyHavensHugeComputerModelsHappeningsUniversityEstablishmentFadesDistrustGeneticsResearchersSociologists Author:James Hillman
“There's so many things happening with computers and what-not, where we may be able to live until 150 and even longer, but if the planet's not here for us to live on it, if we burn ourselves out from global warming and everything else, if we don't figure that out, if we don't figure out an alternative form of energy, I think we're in big, fat trouble.” IfsThinkingMayBigsAbleFormEnergyTroubleFiguresPlanetsComputerHappeningsThings HappenFatsAlternativesGlobal Warming Author:Lisa Rinna
“When Paul [Greengrass] was writing, he'd send me story ideas that he had. He was particularly interested in social movements and revolutions that had been happening all over the world, and how computers and the internet had helped those movements. He encouraged me to read a book about Anonymous, the hacker group called "white hat" hackers, meaning they're driven by ideology and social disruption as opposed to just greed.” WorldWritingBookIdeasStoriesSocialWhiteGroupsMovementRevolutionInternetComputerHappeningsGreedDrivenIdeologyHatsDisruptionHackersSocial Movements Author:Julia Stiles