Computers Quote by Nicholas Carr Download Open image ““our longstanding idea of a computer is obsolete.”” — Nicholas Carr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Computers
“Computing is not about computers anymore. It is about living.” — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Our experience using computers reflects a trade-off that was made fifty years ago or more. — Paul Dourish Copy Share Image
It was obvious that computers were going to become more a part of our lives, and they will continue to unless something dramatic happens… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
“Do not get obsolete like an old technology, keep innovating yourself.” — Sukant Ratnakar Copy Share Image
“Let the computer do the repetitious, the mundane—it will do a better job of it than we would. We've got more important and more… — Andrew Hunt Copy Share Image
“My guess is (it will be) about 300 years until computers are as good as, say, your local reference library in search.” — Google.com Craig Silverstein (Director of Technology Copy Share Image
“It's only after you upgrade to a better technology that you realize how obsolete the previous one has now become.” — Hrishikesh Agnihotri Copy Share Image
“What a forced lifestyle our technology, our inventions imposed on our lives when we tried to live synonymously with computers; when we stepped inside… — Katie Kacvinsky Copy Share Image
“Computers are heaven-sent when they work and hell-spawn when they don't. There's just not much middle ground when it comes to technology.” — Dani Harper Copy Share Image
“computers on everybody’s desk. The PC, which previously could have been dismissed as a technophile’s tinker-toy, was now becoming the essential business productivity tool.… — John Wiley and Sons Copy Share Image
“For the last five centuries, ever since Gutenberg's printing press made book reading a popular pursuit, the linear, literary mind has been at the… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“In programming the World Wide Computer, we will be programming our lives.” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“What we’re experiencing is, in a metaphorical sense, a reversal of the early trajectory of civilization: we are evolving from being cultivators of personal… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“As long as algorithms determine the distribution of profits, they will also determine what gets published. The” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“those with the helpful software were found “to aimlessly click around” as they tried to crack the puzzle.27” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“Our brains turn into simple signal-processing units, quickly shepherding information into consciousness and then back out again.” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“What is different, and troubling, is that skimming is becoming our dominant mode of reading. Once a means to an end, a way to… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“They failed to appreciate how the network would funnel the energies of the people into a centrally administered, tightly monitored information system organized to… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“In the long run, the IT department is unlikely to survive, at least not in its familiar form.” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“Personal memory shapes and sustains the “collective memory” that underpins culture.” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“The near-continuous stream of new information pumped out by the Web also plays to our natural tendency to “vastly overvalue what happens to us… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“The strip-mining of “relevant content” replaces the slow excavation of meaning. IT” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
I don't understand why we're all connected wirelessly via a little machine that goes in our pocket, to everybody in the world, and you… — Jon M. Chu Copy Share Image
“Probably it goes without saying, but time machine guys don't get a lot of action. Had a one night stand with something cute a… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause — John Green Copy Share Image
“Note found in the patron suggestion box: "You have SIGNS up near the computers that say BE QUIET, but people don't be quiet. They… — Gina Sheridan Copy Share Image
“You weren't born to be a cog in the giant industrial machine. You were trained to become a cog. There's an alternative available to… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human… — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern steam ships.… — William Henry Pickering Copy Share Image
“Alan Turing proposed the Turing Test: a computer is intelligent if you can't tell it from a human when you talk with it. No… — CJS Hayward Copy Share Image
Computers can be taught that certain tune or certain chords changes will sound pleasant together, but I don't think it's going to reach a… — Bonobo Copy Share Image
