“It seems like I always wrote, I just didn't think of it as a career choice. I just liked to tell stories ... to myself, to pen pals (I had a lot of them, all over the world). Of course this was in the days before computers were everywhere, and anyone could access the Web. You had to make an effort keeping up a correspondence, and the arrival of the mail once a day was a big deal. I think if modern technology had been around when I was a kid, I would never have left my bedroom except to take the dogs out for their run three times a day.” IfsThinkingWorldStoriesBigsSeemsRunningKidsChoicesThreeCoursesLeftDealsEffortCareersTechnologyModernDogComputerAccessPensMailBedroomThree TimesBig DealArrivalsCorrespondencePalsModern TechnologyCareers Choices Author:Charles de Lint
“It has been a long road from Plato's Meno to the present, but it is perhaps encouraging that most of the progress along that road has been made since the turn of the twentieth century, and a large fraction of it since the midpoint of the century. Thought was still wholly intangible and ineffable until modern formal logic interpreted it as the manipulation of formal tokens. And it seemed still to inhabit mainly the heaven of Platonic ideals, or the equally obscure spaces of the human mind, until computers taught us how symbols could be processed by machines.” MindHumansLongHas BeensMadeStillsTurnsHeavenSpaceProgressModernCenturyTaughtComputerIdealsLogicMachinesSymbolsManipulationHuman MindFormalObscurePlatoTwentieth CenturyFractionsTaught UsTokensIntangibleIneffablePlatonicLong RoadPlato S Author:Allen Newell
“I did Call of Duty Modern Warfare as Gaz, then I did Ghost in Modern Warfare 2, which has become one of the most iconic figures in the history of computer games.” GamesModernFiguresDutyComputerGhostWarfareIconicCall Of DutyModern WarfareComputer GamesModern Warfare 2 Author:Craig Fairbrass
“I looked for certain attributes in a soldier. I know the modern method is to put the attributes into a computer and see what comes out. But as far as I am concerned, the computer is the worst damn instrument devised by man to screw up man-management.” KnowsMenCertainModernWorstComputerConcernedManagementMethodInstrumentsSoldierDamnAttributesScrewsScrew Ups Author:Christopher Vokes
“Now scarcely a week goes by without a news story about the cops swooping down on some adolescent prowler who is as skilled at breaking into computer systems as defense contractors are at breaking into the Federal budget.” StoriesWeekModernComputerNewsDefenseBudgetsCopModern LifeContractorNews StoriesComputer Systems Author:Russell Baker
“Sending grown-ups up the wall is one of the things adolescence is all about. A few years ago it was done with rock 'n' roll music. Now at least they can do it quietly with a home computer.” YearsDoneHomeCan DoModernRocksWallComputerYears AgoRock N RollAdolescenceModern LifeRock N Roll Music Author:Russell Baker
“More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work.” PeopleMysteryModernComputerToolsUsers Author:Clive Thompson
“One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'” HumorFunnyLiteratureModernExpressionComputerModernismModern Times Author:Norman Ralph Augustine
“The modern world has created airports and hospitals and put 10,000 songs in our pocket. It has built gleaming buildings and computers and advances and innovations that blow our minds. But we have soul, and spirit, and consciousness, and the modern world hasn't done so well at helping us name and understand what it means to be thriving and fully alive with a full heart.” WorldMindWellsHeartMeanSoulDoneHelpingSpiritSongNamesConsciousnessAliveModernBuildingComputerBuiltInnovationBlowPocketsHospitalsAirportsModern WorldFull Hearts Author:Rob Bell
“Modern cyberspace is a deadly festering swamp, teeming with dangerous programs such as 'viruses,' 'worms,' 'Trojan horses' and 'licensed Microsoft software' that can take over your computer and render it useless.” HumorFunnyModernDangerousComputerProgramHorseUselessOver YouSoftwareWormsVirusesMicrosoftSwampsCyberspaceTrojansTrojan HorseFestering Author:Dave Barry
“I live in the 17th century. I don't have a computer. I don't look at the internet. I use a cellphone, and that's about my only connection to the modern world.” WorldLooksUseModernCenturyInternetComputerConnectionsModern WorldCellphone17th Century Author:Iris Apfel
“The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes, computer modems and other modern gadgets that have clogged out lives with phony urgency, cell phones represent the 20th Century's escalation of imaginary need. We didn't need cell phones until we had them. Clearly, cell phones cause not only a breakdown of courtesy, but the atrophy of basic skills.” NeedsCausesModernCenturySkillsConversationComputerPhonesCellsGiantsTransformedImaginary20th CenturyCourtesyNarcissisticCell PhoneUrgencyBreakdownPhonyGadgetsCocoonsAtrophyFaxEscalation Author:Mary Schmich
“In the increasingly mechanized, automated, cybernated environment of the modern world a cold, bodiless world of wheels, smooth plastic surfaces, tubes, pushbuttons, transistors, computers, jet propulsion, rockets to the moon, atomic energy man's need for affirmation of his biology has become that much more intense.” MenWorldNeedsEnergyEnvironmentModernColdMoonComputerSurfaceIntenseWheelsBiologyPlasticSmoothAffirmationModern WorldRocketsJetTubesAtomic EnergyPropulsionTransistors Book:SOUL ON ICE Source: SOUL ON ICE
“I spend so much time on the Internet...I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never going to stop reading.” FeelsBookProblemTimeReadingMillionsModernWorstInternetComputerPagesSpendingReading BooksActualityModernisation Author:Aziz Ansari
“In the old days, people thought that wouldn't be amenable to life. Modern studies with computers have shown that it's okay to be tidally locked. If a planet heats up on one side and not the other, the atmosphere can still circulate, because heat wants to move around.” PeopleIfsWantStillsMovingSidesStudyModernPlanetsComputerOkayAtmosphereHeatLockedOld DaysAmenable Author:Sara Seager
“I am trying to make some kind of connection to what is going on in the world, to make some sort of contact. And I use the instruments that our modern world offers, these extraordinary instruments of photography and film and computers.” WorldTryingKindUseFilmModernOffersComputerPhotographyConnectionsInstrumentsExtraordinaryContactModern WorldPhotography And Film Author:Leon Golub