#compute

Every day I go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. At that moment, I have to open the door. It's a big, heavy door. You have to go into the Other Room. Metaphorically, of course. And you have to come back to this side of the room. And you have to shut the door. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#big #come #computer #course #day

And then you start getting into the technical side of it and the aesthetic side and with those areas you can come up with new ways to visualise things, new ways to render and use the computer to make things look different and new and stuff like that. ↗

— Dennis Muren

#areas #come #computer #different #getting

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind. ↗

— Ted Nelson

#any #arbitrary #computers #deal #information

But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted in - make the ones that are less relevant to your central topic, further away or allow the central topic to move as the reader proceeded. ↗

— Ted Nelson

#away #central #computer #could #every

In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking. ↗

— Ted Nelson

#computer #course #graduate #graduate school #i

The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry with them from the conventions of the computer field. ↗

— Ted Nelson

#computer #convenience #conventions #decisions #field

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. ↗

— Ken Olsen

#any #computer #his #home #individual

Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware. ↗

— Ken Olsen

#comes #good #hardware #heaven #software

Sometimes when you have multimedia, people use it too much. It has to be a tool and not the end product, if you can use it as a tool. The same thing apples when you are recording. We had this problem in the 80's, we got so computerized there was no heart and soul in the music anymore. ↗

— Donny Osmond

#apples #computerized #end #end product #got

Some traders still think that a computer could not trade as well as they can. ↗

— Thomas Peterffy

#could #some #still #think #trade