#computers

There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them. ↗

— Jason Schwartzman

#communicate #communication #computers #even #find

Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on! ↗

— Jonathan Shapiro

#am #barely #comes #complete #gee

Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination. ↗

— Bob Taft

#combination #connections #economy #explosive #global

When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#books #computer #computers #embroidery #history

... we have created a man with not one brain but two. ... This new brain is intended to control the biological brain. ... The patient's biological brain is the peripheral terminal -- the only peripheral terminal -- for the new computer. ... And therefore the patient's biological brain, indeed his whole body, has become a terminal for the new computer. We have created a man who is one single, large, complex computer terminal. The patient is a read-out device for the new computer, and is helpless to control the readout as a TV screen is helpless to control the information presented on it. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#computers #science-fiction #science

Information wants to be free.' So goes the saying. Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, seems to have said it first. I say that information doesn't deserve to be free. Cybernetic totalists love to think of the stuff as if it were alive and had its own ideas and ambitions. But what if information is inanimate? What if it's even less than inanimate, a mere artifact of human thought? What if only humans are real, and information is not? ... Information is alienated experience. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#information #internet #technology #experience

Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#humor #sex #technology #technophobes #wit

Young Programmer (innocently): Why are we signing up for this death march project, boss? Boss (thundering righteously): Because, it will increase our corporate earnings per share by a full 3.14159 cents!! ↗

— Ed Yourdan Death March

#death

If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind increasing interest in computational interpretations of mind is an equally nervous preoccupation with the self as machine. ↗

— Sherry Turkle

#equality

Man is a slow, sloppy, and brilliant thinker; computers are fast, accurate, and stupid. ↗

— John Pfeiffer

#inspiration #technology #inspirational