We think of Netflix as a great personalization machine. It understands how you love French midcentury cinema and British murder mysteries, so… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
“I'll bite: Hard science TA's and RA's often repair equipment; it's part of our science. If you want a silver spoon, don't… — Greg Lindahl Copy Share Image
Closed environments dominated the computing world of the 1970s and early '80s. An operating system written for a Hewlett-Packard computer ran only… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
Building intelligent machines can teach us about our minds - about who we are - and those lessons will make our world… — Astro Teller Copy Share Image
Sometimes, writing songs is like waiting in for deliveries. They give you a window, and your washing machine is going to show… — Alex Turner Copy Share Image
“The firepower uncovered in March 2005 in Sant’Anastasia, a town at the foot of Vesuvius, was stunning. The discovery came about partly… — Roberto Saviano Copy Share Image
Constitutional rights are useful up to a point, but they do not serve to guarantee much more than what could be called… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
“You realize you are turning me into some kind of machine?” he noted, nodding down at his HiThere poking through the towel.… — Alice Clayton Copy Share Image
I'll never forget the first time... I got a Blackberry smartphone, and I'm playing with it and I'm going, 'This is really… — Randall L. Stephenson Copy Share Image
“The buzzing was like the eager purr of a muscle car that had just been started, but left in neutral. That was… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“There is a muse, but he’s not going to come fluttering down into your writing room and scatter creative fairy-dust all over… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Ava was blessed with amazing beauty but was academically challenged. Angelina tried to give her a quick introduction to computers but was… — Annette J Dunlea Copy Share Image
Even if you're going into a field that has nothing to do with computer science, just having that way of analytical thinking… — iJustine Copy Share Image
Who's in or out, who moves the grand machine, Nor stirs my curiosity, or spleen; Secrets of state no more I wish… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If you're chained to a computer all day, you're not using up much energy, even if you drag yourself to the gym… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
“The vending machine lacked the willpower of the Western elevator, and it dutifully spat out several chocolate bars and a packet of… — Kit Abbey Copy Share Image
'Merry Wives of Windsor' is a wonderful machine. It's one of the great farces, and it's astonishing to remember that this is… — Roger Rees Copy Share Image
I always have traveled with a camera throughout my life, but I always had my old 35mm film camera. When I was… — Guy Laliberte Copy Share Image
Part of the joy and pleasure of English is its boundless creativity: I can describe a new machine as bicyclish, I can… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
You see it in the many bouncing clothes that are not just pleats. To make them, two or three people twist them… — Issey Miyake Copy Share Image
I have a son. He's 10 years old. He has computers. He is so good with these computers, it's unbelievable. The security… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I've watched with amazement as Local Motors has pioneered a co-creation and micro-manufacturing model that has democratized the development and production of… — Bre Pettis Copy Share Image
“If you are a monster, stand up. If you are a monster, a trickster, a fiend, If you’ve built a steam-powered wishing… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Any time you… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
“I started to say something, but Richard said, “Come on, Anita. We have to go now.” He was right. I could kill… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“He looked around at the others…They were all staring at their computers, or reading books or newspapers. Not one of them has… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
Think about the way you go surfing on the Internet - you go from one thing to another. You can't really concentrate.… — Ali Banisadr Copy Share Image
“The computer has brought a similar fluidity to many other media: artistic drawings, building plans, mechanical drawings, musical compositions, photographs, video sequences,… — Frederick P. Brooks Jr Copy Share Image
“All right, but you know Star Trek, and ‘Beam me up, Scotty’? How they can teleport people around?” “Yeah. The transporters.” “Do… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“I made a mental note to familiarize Fabian with modern artillery so he'd be able to give better descriptions. "Machine guns?" I… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Think about it. Right now, a whole generation of young (customers) in the United States has been brought up to take computers… — Andy Grove Copy Share Image
If one ox could not do the job they did not try to grow a bigger ox, but used two oxen. When… — Grace Hopper Copy Share Image
“Her parents, she said, has put a pinball machine inside her head when she was five years old. The red balls told… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Humans evolved brains that are pattern-recognition machines, adept at detecting signals that enhance or threaten survival amid a very noisy world. ...… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“The other part of me wanted to get out and stay out, but this was the part I never listened to. Because… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Of course, there are crude messages. Vile ones. Ones that don’t seem like they cam from a real human being at all,… — Francesca Zappia Copy Share Image
I believe that we do best when the middle class is doing well. And by giving them those tax cuts, they had… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“beach. They were perfectly safe. Michael’s head crested the dune again. Then his shoulders, the rump of his blue jeans, the short… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
A bit, the smallest unit of information, the fundamental particle of information theory, is a choice, yes or no, on or off.… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“What to call it - the spark of God? Survival instinct? The souped-up computer of an apex brain evolved from eons in… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image