#computers

With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#broadband #communicating #computers #connections #growing

The attribution of intelligence to machines, crowds of fragments, or other nerd deities obscures more than it illuminates. When people are told that a computer is intelligent, they become prone to changing themselves in order to make the computer appear to work better, instead of demanding that the computer be changed to become more useful. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#artificial-intelligence #computers #personhood #technology #change

The idea that so many kids eat rubbish and sit on computers all day long appals me and getting them into sport is a major way of getting them off computers and leading healthier lives. ↗

— Kirsty Gallacher

#computers #day #eat #getting #healthier

Now, 75 years [after To Kill a Mockingbird], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. [Open Letter, O Magazine, July 2006] ↗

— Harper Lee

#communication #computers #critical-thinking #modern-life #reading

The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual. ↗

— Earl Warren

#computers #e-mail #individuality #internet #prediction

Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective computer-mediated communication. ↗

— Robert D. Putnam

#computers #internet #technology #communication

Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer. ↗

— Roberta Williams

#been #computer #computers #convince #developing

Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement. ↗

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

#experience

No one messes around with a nerd’s computer and escapes unscathed. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#computer-hackers #computers #funny #geek #geek-humor

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications. ↗

— Dave Parnas

#applications #been #failed #real #repeatedly