Years ago a statistician might have claimed that statistics deals with the processing of data. . . to-days statistician will be more… — Herman Chernoff Copy Share Image
The term, information at your fingertips, is to remind people what a broad role the personal computer will be playing. It's not… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Reliable and affordable energy is essential for meeting basic human needs and fueling economic growth, but many of the most difficult and… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
There are fast chewers and slow chewers, long chewers and short chewers, right-chewing people and left-chewing people. Some of us chew straight… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Reports also suggest that Ernst and Young and other large tax preparation firms are sending tax returns overseas for processing. But the… — Melissa Bean Copy Share Image
Ayahuasca is driven by sound, by song, by whistling. And its ability to transform sound, including vocal sound, into the visual spectrum… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
A third or more of the brain is devoted to visual processing, not true of any other sense. We have color vision… — John Medina Copy Share Image
In joint scientific efforts extending over twenty years, initially in collaboration with J. C. Shaw at the RAND Corporation, and subsequently with… — Allen Newell Copy Share Image
We have to start processing what we're really made of in America. American character is not dead. American integrity and honesty are… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
Google, Amazon, Apple. Any number of cloud providers and computer service providers who can increasingly limit your access to your own information,… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
Daydreaming defeats practice; those of us who browse TV while working out will never reach the top ranks. Paying full attention seems… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to… — Frank Abagnale Copy Share Image
If you really want to be a good archaeologist, you have to understand ancient DNA; you have to understand chemical analysis to… — Sarah Parcak Copy Share Image
Baseball is a sport where being stupid and keeping things really simple a lot of times is the right way to do… — Zack Greinke Copy Share Image
Here is a humanist proposition for the age of Google: The processing of information is not the highest aim to which the… — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
The irony is that I use computers every day of my life to do music because I edit all of my music… — Zeena Parkins Copy Share Image
Often kids in a computer lab learn about word-processing, but if they want to write an essay, they write it by hand.… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers,… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
By 2020, most home computers will have the computing power of a human brain. That doesn't mean that they are brains, but… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Agribusiness and food processing are important parts of modernizing our economy, of modernizing our agriculture and moving into a phase where a… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
If you know the mother's genome and the father's genome, and you see that the children have some genes that neither parent… — Leroy Hood Copy Share Image
I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Virtual-reality researchers have long struggled to eliminate effects that distort the brain's normal processing of visual information, and when these effects arise… — Steve Mann Copy Share Image
To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming,… — Cliff Shaw Copy Share Image
“Yes, forgetting can be a curse, especially as we age. But forgetting is also one of the more important things healthy brains… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
The central industry of modern civilisation, tending, because of its control over materials, to spread into and ultimately incorporate older industries such… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
There is a common misunderstanding that during meditation the mind should never engage in processing thoughts. It is okay in meditation for… — Tim McCarthy Copy Share Image
When you walk around, your vision system is processing a whole bunch of signals in milliseconds and judging that a visual object… — Usama Fayyad Copy Share Image
Evolution is a process of creating patterns of increasing order…I believe that it's the evolution of patterns that constitutes the ultimate story… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
The international community must do a better job of controlling the risks of nuclear proliferation. Sensitive parts of the nuclear fuel cycle… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
Brains distinguish between an Us and a Them in a fraction of a second. Subliminal processing of a Them activates the amygdala… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Technology has moved away from sharing and toward ownership. This suits software and hardware companies just fine: They create new, bloated programs… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
For me, making music in general is a therapeutic process. It began as a way for me to meet friends, and when… — Anthony Green Copy Share Image
An individual's ability to draw is... the ability to shift to a different-from-ordinary way of processing visual information - to shift from… — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
I have a completely worthless degree: a BS in Photojournalism from Boston University (BU). With this degree, I suppose I could have… — Peter Menzel Copy Share Image
Just think of the opportunities we can unlock by making education as addictive as a video game. This type of experiential, addictive… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
Russia and China also cooperate in mechanical engineering, high-speed railway transportation, lumber processing, nuclear energy production and so on. We have built… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
When we multi-task, we are motivated by a desire to be more productive and more efficient. We're often doing things that are… — Linda Stone Copy Share Image
