“Major power and telephone grids have long been controlled by computer networks, but now similar systems are embedded in such mundane objects as electric meters, alarm clocks, home refrigerators and thermostats, video cameras, bathroom scales, and Christmas-tree lights - all of which are, or soon will be, accessible remotely.” LongHomeLightTreeObjectsComputerMajorsCamerasScalesVideoClockControlledElectricTelephonesBathroomMundaneAlarmsEmbeddedMeterRefrigeratorsGridsChristmas TreeAlarm ClocksVideo Cameras Author:Charles C. Mann
“I'm on it pretty much all the time. I edit Wikipedia every day, I'm on Facebook, I'm on Twitter, I'm reading the news. During one of the US elections, I actually went through my computer and I blocked myself from looking at the major newspaper sites and Google News because I wasn't getting any work done.” DoneReadingComputerMajorsNewsElectionNewspapersGoogleSiteEditsWork DoneBlockedWikipedia Author:Jimmy Wales
“For his major contributions to the analysis of algorithms and the design of programming languages, and in particular for his contributions to the "art of computer programming" through his well-known books in a continuous series by this title.” WellsArtBookLanguageKnownDesignParticularComputerMajorsSeriesTitlesAnalysisContributionProgrammingWell KnownComputer ProgrammingProgramming LanguagesAlgorithms Author:Donald Knuth
“I was asking questions which nobody else had asked before, because nobody else had actually looked at certain structures. Therefore, as I will tell, the advent of the computer, not as a computer but as a drawing machine, was for me a major event in my life. That's why I was motivated to participate in the birth of computer graphics, because for me computer graphics was a way of extending my hand, extending it and being able to draw things which my hand by itself, and the hands of nobody else before, would not have been able to represent.” WayHas BeensHandsAbleCertainEventsBirthComputerMajorsDrawsMachinesAskingStructureDrawingMotivatedAsking QuestionsExtendingAdventComputer Graphics Author:Benoit Mandelbrot
“In life sciences, we find a reasonable balance between men and women. In engineering and computer science, we have a major problem. A very small percentage of women will be in computer science.” MenProblemBalanceComputerMajorsMen And WomenReasonableEngineeringPercentagesComputer ScienceMajor Problems Author:Freeman A. Hrabowski III
“The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.” TogetherNextComputerMajorsExplosionsGeneticsFuture Shock Author:Alvin Toffler
“Computers are here to stay. It is a major challenge for the future to use computers efficiently in combinatorics without losing its special appeal.” UseScienceChallengesSpecialComputerMajorsLosingMathematicsAppeals Author:Noga Alon
“Only in high school when I began programming computers, did I become interested in tech and start-ups, which led me to attend Stanford and major in Computer Science.” SchoolScienceComputerMajorsHigh SchoolProgrammingComputer ScienceStanford Author:Clara Shih
“The stored-program digital computer has three major attributes: it is fast, it is accurate, and it is stupid. The first two attributes are often used to disguise the third.” FirstsTwoUsedThreeStupidComputerMajorsProgramThirdsDigitalAttributesAccurateDisguise Author:P. J. Plauger
“The first proponent of cortical memory networks on a major scale was neither a neuroscientist nor a computer scientist but .. a Viennes economist: Friedrich von Hayek (1899-1992). A man of exceptionally broad knowledge and profound insight into the operation of complex systems, Hayek applied such insight with remarkable success to economics (Nobel Prize, 1974), sociology, political science, jurisprudence, evolutionary theory, psychology, and brain science (Hayek, 1952).” MenFirstsPoliticalMemoriesBrainPsychologyTheoryComputerMajorsEconomicsScientistProfoundComplexesInsightScalesOperationsRemarkablePrizeBroadsEconomistSociologyPolitical ScienceNobelNobel PrizeComplex SystemsHayekJurisprudenceBrain ScienceVon Hayek Author:Joaquin Fuster
“The other major kind of computer is the "Apple," which I do not recommend, because it is a wuss-o-rama New-Age computer you basically just plug in and use.” KindUseAgeComputerMajorsApplesNew AgeRamaPlugs Author:Dave Barry
“My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn't realize it was at the peak at the time.” RealizingHappenedComputerMajorsPercentEconomicsComputer ScienceUndergraduate Author:Melinda Gates
“We are lucky in the United States to have our liberal arts system. In most countries, if you go to university, you have to decide for all English literature or no literature, all philosophy or no philosophy. But we have a system that is one part general education and one part specialization. If your parents say you've got to major in computer science, you can do that. But you can also take general education courses in the humanities, and usually you have to.” IfsArtCountryStatesPhilosophyHumanityCoursesLiteratureParentCan DoUnitedUnited StatesLuckyComputerMajorsUniversityComputer ScienceEnglish LiteratureSpecializationLiberal ArtsGeneral Education Author:Martha C. Nussbaum
“Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.” FunnyScienceThreeLostWorkBreakObjectsComputerMajorsDown AndCategoriesBreaking DownBreak UpLost FriendshipInanimate Objects Author:Russell Baker
“The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.” TogetherScienceNextTalkingComputerMajorsFunctionSubstanceExplosionsGeneticsChange ManagementFuture ShockSemiconductors Author:Alvin Toffler