#computers

When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it's a success. It's not popularity for our code but it's success for our goal. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#computers #developing #development #explicitly #free

I wouldn't know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it. ↗

— Marc Jacobs

#computer #depended #ebay #find #how

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#done #easier #lot #make #most

Computers make me totally blank out. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#computers #make #me #out #totally

I got up with my wife, I sat down at the computer when she went to work, and I didn't stop until she got home. ↗

— George Stephen

#computer #down #got #home #i

It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they've been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them. ↗

— Roy H. Williams

#been #carry #computers #demands #faster

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