This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about.… — Vanilla Ice Copy Share Image
Writing on a computer feels like a recipe for writer's block. I can type so fast that I run out of thoughts,… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
The last light, in the last window, went out. Only the unstoppable machine of the sea still tears away at the silence… — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
“I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out it was an… — Alan J. Perlis Copy Share Image
So many people for so many years have promoted technology as the answer to everything. The economy wasn't growing: technology. Poor people:… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
Overemphasis of efficiency leads to an unfortunate circularity in design: for reasons of efficiency early programming languages reflected the characteristics of the… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
We should treat computers as fancy telephones, whose purpose is to connect people… As long as we remember that we ourselves are… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“Radios, vacuum tubes, transistors, televisions, solar cells, coaxial cables, laser beams, microprocessors, computers, cell phones, fiber optics—all these essential tools of modern… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
The first ATM in Hong Kong was actually at the foot of the bank. I remember my father using it. And I… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“The bank - or the Company - needs - wants -insists - must have - as though the bank or the Company… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Our relationship with God is not contractual, so that we could fulfill the right conditions and it would have the desired results,… — John E. Goldingay Copy Share Image
But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations of… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
The first thing I think, I was building computers, I started to build a computer when I was 17 or 18 at… — Peter Jones Copy Share Image
I can write, boy, I can write. That's what I do. The trouble is that it's too bloody easy for people, that's… — Mark E. Smith Copy Share Image
“But Nozick did think long and hard about the relationship between hedonism and happiness. He once devised a thought experiment called the… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
Make a record in your bedroom on a cheap computer, play it on pirate radio, and that's what's it's all about. You… — Kieran Hebden Copy Share Image
People don't really believe that their computer or sneakers are made by small hands, a child's hands, or a person who is… — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
“Never believe that you cannot change. An audio cassette, a video cassette and a computer disc have all been programmed and each… — Ursula Markham Copy Share Image
I don't know if the Cuban revolution will survive or not. It's difficult to say. But [if it doesn't] . . .… — Ernesto Che Guevara Copy Share Image
Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. He might, after all,… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
I think my dad did legal work for someone who had a Packard Bell 8088, and they couldn't pay him, so they… — Jeremy Stoppelman Copy Share Image
From cell phones to computers, quality is improving and costs are shrinking as companies fight to offer the public the best product… — John Shadegg Copy Share Image
“He pushed away from the computer and pressed his chest against my back, wrapping me in his arms. “I love that you… — Devney Perry Copy Share Image
“By the 1960s, the electronic computer had become an integral tool of science, technology, and business. Without its capacities for memorizing, calculating,… — Courtney G. Brooks, James M. Grimwood, Loyd S. Swenson Copy Share Image
A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
“All such questions as, for instance,of the cause of failure of crops, of the adherence of certain tribes to their ancient belief,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We are still fearful, superstitious and all-too-human creatures. At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading… — Richard Dooling Copy Share Image
“At the same time, Bezos became enamored with a book called Creation, by Steve Grand, the developer of a 1990s video game… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image