“The human venture depends absolutely on this quality of awe and reverence and joy in the Earth and all that lives and grows upon the Earth. As soon as we isolate ourselves from these currents of life and from the profound mood that these engender within us, then our basic life-satisfactions are diminished. None of our machine-made products, none of our computer-based achievements can evoke that total commitment to life.” HumansMadeEarthJoyGrowsQualityGrowing UpProductsDependsAchievementComputerCommitmentMachinesProfoundCurrentsSatisfactionMoodAweReverenceVentureEvoke Book:The Great Work: Our Way into the Future Source: The Great Work: Our Way into the Future
“The first human-to-computer uploads of 2100 will prove that a perfect simulation is the thing being simulated - that a silicon soul doesn't need a physical body to inhabit. So eventually everybody who ever lived will be resurrected inside a living machine indistinguishable from God. Isn't it amazing what you can do with unlimited hard-disk space?” NeedsFirstsHumansSoulHardBodyCan DoSpacePerfectProveComputerMachinesUnlimitedSiliconPhysical BodySimulationDisk Author:Frank J. Tipler
“Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. But in fact we need to focus on humans, on how humans care about doing programming or operating the application of the machines.” PeopleNeedsHumansFactsCareFocusComputerMachinesProgrammingApplicationEngineers Author:Yukihiro Matsumoto
“Most programs are not write-once. They are reworked and rewritten again and again in their lived. Bugs must be debugged. Changing requirements and the need for increased functionality mean the program itself may be modified on an ongoing basis. During this process, human beings must be able to read and understand the original code. It is therefore more important by far for humans to be able to understand the program than it is for the computer.” NeedsWritingHumansMayMeanImportantAbleProcessHuman BeingsComputerProgramBasesOriginalsCodeAgain And AgainRequirementsBugsOngoingFunctionality Author:Yukihiro Matsumoto
“Imagine you are writing an email. You are in front of the computer. You are operating the computer, clicking a mouse and typing on a keyboard, but the message will be sent to a human over the internet. So you are working before the computer, but with a human behind the computer.” WritingHumansBehindsImagineFrontsInternetComputerMessagesMiceEmailKeyboardsTyping Author:Yukihiro Matsumoto
“Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you're doing. Picasso had a saying: good artists copy, great artists steal. And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas, and I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldTryingHumansMadeIdeasDoneArtistInspiringHappenedPoetTasteComputerMusicianScientistStealingBest ThingsMemorableBeing The BestCopiesHistorianGreat ArtGreat IdeaGreat ArtistGood ArtShamelessGood ArtistMacintoshZoologist Author:Steve Jobs
“Suppose aliens invade the earth and threaten to obliterate it in a year's time unless human beings can find the Ramsey number for red five and blue five. We could marshal the world's best minds and fastest computers, and within a year we could probably calculate the value. If the aliens demanded the Ramsey number for red six and blue six, however, we would have no choice but to launch a preemptive attack.” IfsWorldYearsMindHumansEarthValuesChoicesHuman BeingsNumbersFiveSixComputerRedBlueAliens Author:Paul Erdos
“The life-efficiency and adaptability of the computer must be questioned. Its judicious use depends upon the availability of its human employers quite literally to keep their own heads, not merely to scrutinize the programming but to reserve for themselves the right of ultimate decision. No automatic system can be intelligently run byautomatonsor by people who dare not assert human intuition, human autonomy, human purpose.” PeopleHumansUseRunningPurposeDecisionDependsComputerUltimateDareIntuitionProgrammingReservesEfficiencyAutonomyEmployersAdaptabilityAvailabilityScrutinize Author:Lewis Mumford
“It amazes me that filmmakers will still film, and audiences will still watch, relationships so bankrupt of human feeling that the characters could be reading dialogue written by a computer.” HumansStillsCharacterFeelingsFilmReadingWatchesAudienceWrittenComputerDialogueFilmmaker Author:Roger Ebert
“Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.” InspirationalHumansDreamSpiritUnderstandingCompassionComputerToolsMachinesRealizationSparksMagnificentOur DreamsComputer Technology Author:Lou Gerstner