Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Adults have been brainwashed into thinking that they can't really learn about computers without being taught, so it's more difficult for them… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
Most of my colleagues go on backpacking trips when they have to do some thinking. I go to a good hardware store… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“If we wanted to do a second calculation on our domino computer, it would take another day to stand all the dominoes… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information,… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
To me there is no more depressing sight than a five-year-old staring at a screen, unsmiling, mouse in hand. Besides whatever dreadful… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
The greatest existential risks over the coming decades or century arise from certain, anticipated technological breakthroughs that we might make in particular,… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
“I was seeking within myself the human being I had so long lost sight of, hoping that my passion had only been… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
In 1970, Americans spent about $6 billion on fast food; in 2000, they spent more than $110 billion. Americans now spend more… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
“I worked transferring books to computer discs, to cut down on storage space and replacement costs, they said. Discers, we called ourselves.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If you want to get an advance machine tool job today, you need to know calculus. We know a lot of people… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a… — Georges Canguilhem Copy Share Image
When I see an old movie, like from the ’40s or ’50s or ’60s, the people look so calm. They don’t have… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
I've found the best gym, Doug's Gym on Commerce. I think the guy who owns it has forgotten more about fitness than… — Sarah Wayne Callies Copy Share Image
Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
We must face the fact that we are on the brink of times when man may be able to magnify his intellectual… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
VR as a display technology, as it's miniaturized and made comfortable and mainstream, will be a replacement for all other forms of… — Tim Sweeney Copy Share Image
At times, in medicine, you feel you are inside a colossal and impossibly complex machine whose gears will turn for you only… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
The origins and travels of our purchases remain matters of indifference, although to the more imaginative at least a slight dampness at… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I have a crazy amount of different jobs, so the way I manage that is to not do more than one at… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
“Keep your head down, fingers on the computer and write. Ignore the naysayers, the skeptics, the friends, church patrons or family members… — Sarah Gerdes Copy Share Image
Desire is a word I'm tired of. I've been living with that word for years. Yes, of course, we're all desiring machines.… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
It required unusual inquisitiveness to pursue the development of scientific curiosities such as charged pith balls, the voltaic cell, and the electrostatic… — Frederick Seitz Copy Share Image
I miss the feeling of liking someone. you know the feeling where all you do is think about how you can make… — Brittany Copy Share Image
I really can't picture anyone having a crush on me or falling in love with me. I can't picture someone thinking about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our civilization is experiencing unprecedented changes across many realms, largely due to the rapid advancement of information technology. The ability to code… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The computer field is intoxicated with change. We have seen galloping growth over a period of four decades and it still does… — Fernando J. Corbato Copy Share Image
Computers shouldn't be parents, but they are. Please, spend time with your kids. If you don't want to, then I don't want… — GloZell Copy Share Image
Nature-the sublime, the harsh, and the beautiful-offers something that the street or gated community or computer game cannot. Nature presents the young… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
My analysis, especially of the computer revolution, always comes back to capitalism. It's that economic system that has led to Western civilization's… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share Image
“The computer's password protected. I try the basics: 1,2,3,4. QWERTY. YTREWQ, which is qwerty backward. PASSWORD. A few others. Whoever uses this… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
“The material object of observation, the bicycle or rotisserie, can’t be right or wrong. Molecules are molecules. They don’t have any ethical… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Several years ago we had an intern who was none too swift. One day he was typing and turned to a secretary… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Music was more fitted to my temperament. If you were feeling sad and down in the boxing gym, you'd get hit more… — Bugzy Malone Copy Share Image
As a society I think we are going to be much better off by having machines that can work in conjunction with… — Jeff Dean Copy Share Image
“I felt like we were a machine, working in unison with one another. This was perfect. With my eyes closed, there was… — Scott Hildreth Copy Share Image
By combining cutting-edge hardware engineering of computer chips that can perform billions of operations per second, with state-of-the-art software engineering that applies… — Jasmine Crockett Copy Share Image
“If an AI possessed any one of these skills—social abilities, technological development, economic ability—at a superhuman level, it is quite likely that… — Stuart Armstrong Copy Share Image
“ This machine or creature or some combination of both that can manipulate molecules, that can store energy where it will, that… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
As a peace machine, it's value to the world will be beyond computation. Would a declaration of war between Russia and Japan… — John Brisben Walker Copy Share Image
