#compute

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. ↗

— Alan Kay

#act #computer #exploited #language #like

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#about #along #behaviour #cloning #computer

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. ↗

— Jack Vance

#blind #computer #computers #find #hard

We can just assume they have much more and powerful, more advanced technology, all the new computers, everything could be much more easier and help them to build much more and many more nuclear weapons. ↗

— Mordechai Vanunu

#advanced technology #assume #build #computers #could

You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love? ↗

— Lech Walesa

#direction #faith #feel #freedom #here

That's what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, 'Oh, somebody coughed in the background; we need to take that out' - or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments. ↗

— Jack White

#bad #best #computers #easily #fix

So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature. ↗

— Stephen Wolfram

#ago #basis #computers #describe #general

I love my little Mac G4 computer and we just had Internet installed on the bus... we all have little Macs actually, there's four of us on the bus, and we all just sit there and surf the Internet! ↗

— Lee Ann Womack

#bus #computer #four #had #i

In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer. ↗

— Steve Wozniak

#designed #end #good #hope #i

It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books. ↗

— Steve Wozniak

#be nice #books #briefcase #computer #design