"No consumer product improves more drastically, year after……" — Clive Thompson

"No consumer product improves more drastically, year after year, than the computer."

— Clive Thompson

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19 Quotes by Clive Thompson

Clive Thompson has 19 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

That's the old ecological tale that explains humans' inability to fully appreciate global warming. To wit: if you drop a…
Memory has always been social. Now we're using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too.
Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing what's going on in the lives of other people - what they're thinking…
PowerPoint presentations, the cesspool of data visualization that Microsoft has visited upon the earth. PowerPoint, indeed, is a cautionary tale…
When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity.
Type as quickly as you can and always carry a pencil.
As Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman document in their book Networked, people who are heavily socially active online tend to…
A huge amount of our everyday thinking - powerful, creative, and resonant stuff - is done socially: talking to other…
We use paper documents to store knowledge so we can consult and reconsult it, giving us a type of recall…
The amount of writing that people do online is astonishing, and historically unprecedented.
There is something about the ability to externalize our thoughts and compare them with other people in a public way…
Tip-of-the-tongue syndrome is when people almost remember something but need a computer, or someone else, to help them find it.…

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More Computer Quotes

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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. — Isaac Asimov
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely… — Isaac Asimov
All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim… — Isaac Asimov
A lot of these kids I think are more content just to be on Facebook and the computer than they… — Dave Attell
One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.' — Norman Ralph Augustine
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it… — Norman Ralph Augustine
I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone. — Sebastian Bach
Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business. — Erykah Badu
Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those… — Russell Baker
It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered… — Russell Baker
Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going… — J. G. Ballard
The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot. — Dave Barry

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