“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
“Look at our culture. Look at the computer-enhanced people we compare ourselves to. Look at the expensive cars and trinkets we're all supposed to have. Look at how many people are wrapped up in that! Imagine how much money and worry we'd save ourselves if we stopped caring what kind of car we drove! and why do we care? perfection. But there is no such thing, is there? And if there is, then everyone is perfect in their own way, right?” PeopleIfsWayLooksKindCareCulturePerfectWorryImagineCarComputerPerfectionCaringCompareExpensiveTrinketsStopped CaringExpensive Cars Author:A.S. King
“Whether we ever get to know about them or not, there are very probably alien civilizations that are superhuman, to the point of being god-like in ways that exceed anything a theologian could possibly imagine. Their technical achievements would seem as supernatural to us as ours would seem to a Dark Age peasant transported to the twenty-first century. Imagine his response to a laptop computer, a mobile telephone, a hydrogen bomb or a jumbo jet.” KnowsWayFirstsSeemsAgeDarkImagineCenturyCivilizationAchievementComputerTwentiesResponseAliensBombsTelephonesTheologianMobileExceedPeasantsJetDark AgesLaptopsSuperhumanHydrogenHydrogen BombLaptop Computers Book:The God Delusion Source: The God Delusion
“When somebody has learned how to program a computer ... You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make the computer do anything they can imagine.” PeopleCan DoImagineGroupsComputerProgramIncrediblesJoining Author:Tim Berners-Lee
“We imagine "pure" cybernetic systems, but we can prove only that we know how to build fairly dysfunctional ones. We kid ourselves when we think we understand something, even a computer, merely because we can model or digitize it.” ThinkingKnowsKidsKnow HowImaginePureProveComputerModels Author:Jaron Lanier
“Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?” HumansPlayDestinyImagineComputerSpeciesMiceHuman Species Author:Buzz Aldrin
“When I was growing up, I was as socially outcast as any nerd could possibly be. I was in the chess club, I brought D&D stuff to school, I had every game system you could imagine, I spent countless hours at arcades, computer camp, loud presence in the Latin Club. All that stuff.” SchoolGamesStuffHoursGrowing UpGrowingImagineComputerClubsChessLoudLatinCampsNerdOutcastArcades Author:Chris Hardwick
“If you start thinking about the kids being born now, for them the computer is ancient history. So one imagines that when children think of it as the only place to be, because there isn't anywhere else, then the geniuses of those generations will find their way into doing something that is impressive and as good as a Shakespeare or a Cervantes. But nowadays, we can't see that. We're not close enough to it yet.” IfsThinkingWayChildrenEnoughKidsBornImagineGenerationsGeniusComputerAncientImagine ThatImpressiveAncient History Author:Robert Coover
“Imagine the disincentive to software development if after months of work another company could come along and copy your work and market it under its own name...without legal restraints to such copying, companies like Apple could not afford to advance the state of the art.” IfsArtStatesNamesCompanyImagineMonthsDevelopmentComputerApplesCopiesSoftwareRestraintCopyingSoftware Development Author:Bill Gates
“I write fiction longhand. That's not so much about rejecting technology as being unable to write fiction on a computer for some reason. I don't think I would write it on a typewriter either. I write in a very blind gut instinctive way. It just doesn't feel right. There's a physical connection. And then in nonfiction that's not the case at all. I can't even imagine writing nonfiction by hand.” ThinkingWayFeelsWritingI CanReasonHandsFictionCasesTechnologyImagineComputerConnectionsBlindGutsNonfictionTypewritersFeels RightRejectingWriting Nonfiction Author:Jennifer Egan
“When you think of all the things that have happened, since that problem with computers in 2000 and everybody was afraid and they were buying water, imagine what Millennium would do with all the things that are going on in the world right now. It has the capacity to be a movie. But, anyway, I loved doing it. It changed my life because the guy that I was playing was so much more educated and smarter than I was, so I had to live up to it.” ThinkingWorldProblemGuyWaterImagineHappenedChangedRight NowComputerCapacityEducatedBuyingSmarterChanged My LifeMillennium Author:Lance Henriksen
“What distinguishes a human being from a computer? The ability to add up numbers? The ability to understand language? The ability to be logical? It is, of course, none of the above. It is the ability to play. Computers cannot have fun. They cannot fantasize. They cannot dream, they cannot experience emotion or summon intuition. These rare, precious qualities come naturally to every child on this earth yet they tend to be seen, by well meaning adults, as faults, foibles and failings. In pushing tiny toddlers to 'perform', we rob them of the ability to imagine.” HumansWellsChildrenPlayDreamEarthCoursesLanguageFunHuman BeingsAbilityNumbersEmotionQualityImagineFailingComputerAdultsAddFaultsIntuitionTinyHaving FunPushingLogicalToddlerFoibles Author:Jonathan Cainer
“Imagine being able to make it difficult for an ISIS commander to talk to his fighters in the field just by placing a piece of malware on his computer network.” AbleDifficultPiecesImagineFieldsComputerFighterIsisCommanders Author:Dina Temple-Raston