People’s computers are not getting more secure. They’re getting more infected with viruses. They’re getting more under the control of malware.
I’m trying to get through life without really knowing about computers, but I don’t know if I am going to make it.
Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.
One of the things that is not so good is that a decision was made long ago about the size of an IP address – 32 bits. At the time it was a number much larger than anyone could imagine ever having that many computers but it turned out to be to small.
I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.
People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.
I am not one of the new media experts working all the time with my computers and the PowerPoints and things of that sort.
We believe the singularity is inevitable, and all businesses will be redefined as computers overtake humans in intelligence.
Computers are really patient. They can sit there all day. It’s a totally different situation dealing with humans. They can be tired or overly excited.
No one has any faith in the tape anymore – everyone just relies on computers and considers the hardrive to be the safest option, and I don’t. I think an analog tape is something you can hold.
I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time – the American South in the 1960s and ’70s – when the machine hadn’t completely taken over life. The natural world was still the world, and machines – TV, telephone, cars – were still more or less ancillary, and computers were unheard of in everyday life.
I give Bill Gates an A for vision because, as a business person and a strategist, he’s brilliant. His flaw is that his view is not informed by a humanistic or compassionate vision of how to make computers work for people.
The form of computers has never been important, with speed and performance being the only things that mattered.
At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.
I was writing my Ph.D. in the late 1980s and was keeping an eye on what was happening in the world. It became obvious to me that Russia couldn’t live without computers. I think I worked this out a year before anyone else. I started looking for people who could help import them.
I didn’t know much about computers. I still worked on a manual Olivetti typewriter.
My first computers were a Timex Sinclair and an Apple II.
I was standing on the shoulders of other science fiction writers like William Gibson, who had written ‘Neuromancer’ on a typewriter before home computers even really existed, and Neal Stephenson who wrote ‘Snow Crash’ in the early ’90s and imagined an online virtual world before the birth of the modern Internet.
Everybody uses computers to train so much now that the first nine or 10 moves of a match are made without thinking.
We’re just into toys, whether it’s motorcycles or race cars or computers. I’ve got the Palm Pilot right here with me, I’ve got the world’s smallest phone. Maybe it’s just because I’m still a big little kid and I just love toys, you know?
There’s an evolution from, today we tell computers to do stuff for us, to where computers can actually do stuff for us. For example, if I go and pick up my kids, it would be good for my car to be aware that my kids have entered the car and change the music to something that’s appropriate for them.
Dad was very into electronics, robotics and computers, so I was interested in what he was doing.
I am a child of digital generation. I have done most of the records with Rilo Kiley on computers, on Pro Tools or other digital programs.
You can go as far back as fifth grade, and you will find me tinkering with media and computers, making things that are a little off the beaten track.
I’m not a luddite. Science, computers, medicine, they’re all great. But nature is context. That which we can’t control. Its constant mortality and immortality is an answer to the terror of finite existence. It reassures the soul.
I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.
When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you’d dial into… a shared system and shared computers. I’ve had an email address since the late ’80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in ’93 when it was first starting out.
You can be very connected, computers are great, they can get you a ticket to Venezuela in five minutes; brilliant. But if you know your music and your history, you can make that work as a tool. If you don’t, you’re working as a slave to it.
Introduced in the 1960s, multitasking is an engineering strategy for making computers more efficient. Human beings are the slowest elements in a system.
I closely follow everything about user interface or human-computer interface: technology that makes computers closer to the way the human being actually functions.
But I’m so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it’s just so slow, I’m so terribly slow using it.
Before computers, you’d start designing using shapes of cubes. Now I can start with something like a handkerchief, an object that doesn’t have strong inside and outside boundaries or much closed volume.
I am of the very last generation who didn’t have computers at school. As we grow old we’ll become something of an aberration.
I am very bad at computers. I don’t really know how to write email.
I’ve never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn’t use a computer for preparing for games at all. I was playing a bit online, was using the chess club mainly. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games.
With faster Internet and better computers, you’d better believe we’re creating and consuming more digital data.
Computers can’t find the unexpected, but people can when they eyeball the data.
In conclusion, computers have transformed the way we live, work, and interact with the world around us. As we embrace the power of technology, may these computer quotes inspire us to continue pushing the boundaries of innovation, harnessing the potential of computers for positive change. Let us remember that technology is a tool, and it is our responsibility to use it wisely and ethically, fostering a future where advancements in computing bring about progress, connectivity, and a better world for all.
