I began to see motorcyclists who had attached computer discs to their back mudflaps, because they made good reflectors. In a place… — Peter Hessler Copy Share Image
Nowadays, a 13-year-old would probably know more than Bobby Fischer knew when he retired. They analyse all the moves and prepare themselves… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
By using money as the scapegoat and work as our all-consuming routine, we are able to conveniently disallow ourselves to do otherwise:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Science fiction does not attempt to predict. It extrapolates. It just says, "What if?" not what will be? Because you can never… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The only thing that you might see that is a planned tweet is if I am tweeting about an event or promoting… — Bryan-Michael Cox Copy Share Image
The research reported on in our book "A=B", has moved a whole active field of mathematics from the province of human thought… — Herbert Wilf Copy Share Image
We have the ability, at such high fidelity, to simulate the physical world through computers. But when the spiritual world or human… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his… — Gerald Scarfe Copy Share Image
Klout and various measurements of influence are fun. I love to see where I score on them, but there's a computer algorithm… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
Right now, 70 percent of the people don't have computers. And where they're needed most, people don't have them. We think this… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
Nefarious. This is what we get when we hire a Yale boy.” “You missed sacrosanct earlier. And taciturn and glowering,” Jack said.… — Julie James Copy Share Image
In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some… — Jon Postel Copy Share Image
I think its a fundamental feature of images that they move from one medium to another. And this has become hyper-evident in… — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Think of the soul as the computer system that runs the whole thing. And then the spirit is the executive center. It's… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Remember how quickly our field [computer science] changes. That's why you want to focus on learning things that don't change: how to… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
In early high school years, I was pretty chubby, and I spent a lot of time on my computer, before it was… — Rashida Jones Copy Share Image
I get nervous about the effect that the high speed of everything will have on creativity. It's already sad for me to… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
I wonder if in part why so many people are angry at Microsoft is not just because their products frustrate them so… — Rosalind Picard Copy Share Image
All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence,… — Mark Kennedy Copy Share Image
A woman gave my dad $400 so we could get an apartment. We were living in a park. That's how we got… — Gilbert Arenas Copy Share Image
"Nothing is ever lost" means that what we are now goes all the way back through natural history. We are biological organisms… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Whether it's watching a $4,000 laptop fall off the conveyor belt at airport security, contending with a software conflict that corrupted your… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“All right," she snaps at the computer. "I get it. I'm slowing down! Gods!" "Activating Generic Ocular Display Sequence. G.O.D.S." The front… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
Unsurprisingly, an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) - once a luxury for room-sized computer installations - is now a standard item both in… — Charles Platt Copy Share Image
At the beginning of this album I discovered the computer and had great fun playing with the thing. And I realized that,… — Midge Ure Copy Share Image
With a computer, you make your changes on the screen and then you print out a clean copy. With a typewriter, you… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
Writing, and especially writing a novel, where you get to sit in a room by yourself with either a pen and a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I had so many songs that were actually sort of finished. And I deleted them. I wrote on my website that I'd… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Computer science … jobs should be way more interesting than even going to Wall Street or being a lawyer--or, I can argue,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
What, then, is the basic difference between today's computer and an intelligent being? It is that the computer can be made to… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks,… — Olivia Munn Copy Share Image
There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard… — Jason Schwartzman Copy Share Image
In the summer of 1988, I received an interesting call from Bill Gates at Microsoft. He asked whether I'd like to come… — Dave Cutler Copy Share Image
I always had the uncomfortable feeling that if I wasn't sitting in front of a computer typing, I was wasting my time… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image