“A woman gave my dad $400 so we could get an apartment. We were living in a park. That's how we got started: Four hundred bucks, and look at me. When I donate a computer to a school, I never know what's going to come out of it.” KnowsLooksSchoolFourDadComputerHundredMy DadParksApartmentLook At MeBucksDonate Author:Gilbert Arenas
“All children need a laptop. Not a computer, but a human laptop. Moms, Dads, Grannies and Grandpas, Aunts, Uncles - someone to hold them, read to them, teach them. Loved ones who will embrace them and pass on the experience, rituals and knowledge of a hundred previous generations. Loved ones who will pass to the next generation their expectations of them, their hopes, and their dreams.” LoveNeedsHumansChildrenDreamNextTeachGenerationsMomDadComputerExpectationsHundredEmbraceRitualLoved OnesUnclesAuntNext GenerationLaptopsGrandpaGrannyPrevious GenerationsMom Dad Author:Colin Powell
“Writing, and especially writing a novel, where you get to sit in a room by yourself with either a pen and a paper or a computer for a couple of years, is a very solitary occupation. You can read sales figures - a hundred thousand books sold, half a million books sold - but they are just numbers.” WritingYearsBookRoomsNumbersHalfMillionsNovelFiguresCoupleThousandPaperComputerHundredPensOccupationSolitary Author:Neil Gaiman
“I like the aspect of technology. For me to spin the way I do, I would have to carry five crates of records with me everywhere I go, which in this day and age would be like two hundred extra dollars in baggage fees. All I need now is a hard drive and a computer and I can rock anywhere in the world.” WorldWayNeedsI CanTwoHardWould BeAgeTechnologyRecordsFiveRocksComputerHundredAspectDollarsExtrasThis DayBaggageFees Author:Neil Armstrong
“I'm doing the same thing and it's a hundred times bigger and a hundred times better. So if your going to make a computer game off a movie, is it going to be like "Avatar" where it's going to be a prequel before Jake even got to the planet. You've got to be smart because audiences demand that.” IfsGamesAudiencePlanetsDemandComputerSmartHundredBiggerBeing SmartJakeComputer Games Author:Sam Worthington
“There's something nearly mystical about certain words and phrases that float through our lives. It's computer mysticism. Words that are computer generated to be used on products that might be sold anywhere from Japan to Denmark - words devised to be pronounceable in a hundred languages. And when you detach one of these words from the product it was designed to serve, the words acquires a chantlike quality.” MightUsedCertainLanguageQualityOur LivesProductsComputerHundredPhrasesAcquireJapanMysticismMysticalFloatsDenmark Book:Conversations with Don DeLillo Source: Conversations with Don DeLillo
“Computer science is not as old as physics; it lags by a couple of hundred years. However, this does not mean that there is significantly less on the computer scientist's plate than on the physicist's: younger it may be, but it has had a far more intense upbringing!” YearsMayMeanDoeCoupleComputerHundredScientistPhysicsIntensePlatesPhysicistUpbringingComputer ScienceLag Author:Richard P. Feynman
“Letting agencies are unregulated. They charge a search fee, which in some cases can run into several hundred pounds, but the search consists of no more than checking through a computer database to see whether they have any properties for that person.” PersonsRunningCasesComputerHundredPropertyAgencyPoundsFeesDatabases Author:Jeremy Corbyn
“... the reason we think that computer graphics technology has succeeded in faking reality is that we, over the course of the last hundred and fifty years, have come to accept the image of photography and film as reality.” ThinkingYearsReasonRealityLastsFilmCoursesAcceptingTechnologyComputerPhotographyHundredFiftyPhotography And FilmComputer Graphics Author:Lev Manovich
“I tell adults about the experiences of more than a hundred teachers I've interviewed. They tell me that allowing the child to help them learn helped them become better teachers. That's because they no longer had to pretend they were the experts - not only about computers but about other things.” ChildrenHelpingTeacherComputerHundredAdultsExpertsAllowing Author:Seymour Papert
“Where do you draw the line as a human being? Written record is only, what, a couple thousand years? And this scientific revolution is less than a hundred years. And computers only a few decades! We've changed so much. It's amazing, the speed of changes.” YearsHumansLinesHuman BeingsRecordsWrittenChangedRevolutionCoupleThousandComputerDrawsHundredSpeedDecadesThousand YearsScientific Revolution Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto
“A company can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on firewalls, intrusion detection systems and encryption and other security technologies, but if an attacker can call one trusted person within the company, and that person complies, and if the attacker gets in, then all that money spent on technology is essentially wasted.” IfsPersonsMoneyCompanyTechnologySecurityCallingWasteComputerHundredSafetyDollarsTrustedAttackingHackersIntrusionDetectionEncryptionComplying Author:Kevin Mitnick
“Imagine the earth’s population of six billion people reduced to just one hundred representatives. Statistically, that makes 30 white, 70 non-white. It means 6 people own 59% of the wealth and they all live in North America. 80 are in substandard housing. One has an education. One owns a computer. Don’t blame me if it all sounds crazy.” PeopleIfsMeanEarthAmericaSoundWealthWhiteImagineCrazySixComputerHundredBlamePopulationBillionsJust OneRepresentativesHousingNorth AmericaBlame MeDon't Blame Me Author:Grant Morrison
“I don't know when they first had feeds. Like maybe, fifty or a hundred years ago. Before that, they had to use their hands and their eyes. Computers were all outside the body. They carried them around outside of them, in their hands, like if you carried your lungs in a briefcase and opened it to breathe.” IfsKnowsYearsFirstsUseBodyHandsEyeComputerHundredYears AgoBreatheFiftyLungsBriefcases Author:Matthew Tobin Anderson