#computers

You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s. ↗

— Paul Kantner

#come #computer #fed #into #out

Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s. ↗

— Mitch Kapor

#bunch #computers #enough #exposure #fascinated

People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird. ↗

— Donald Knuth

#computers #hardware #idea #interested #least

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#about #biological #come #computer #computers

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

What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself. ↗

— Steve Wozniak

#actually #build #computer #could #did

It is no longer just engineers who dominate our technology leadership, because it is no longer the case that computers are so mysterious that only engineers can understand what they are capable of. There is an industry-wide shift toward more "product thinking" in leadership--leaders who understand the social and cultural contexts in which our technologies are deployed. Products must appeal to human beings, and a rigorously cultivated humanistic sensibility is a valued asset for this challenge. That is perhaps why a technology leader of the highest status--Steve Jobs--recently credited an appreciation for the liberal arts as key to his company's tremendous success with their various i-gadgets. ↗

— Damon Horowitz

#computers #engineers #human-beings #humanism #leaders