#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

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

Two things you should know about me; The first is that I am deeply suspicious of people in general. It is my nature to expect the worst of them. And the second is that I am unexpectedly good with computers. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#dauntless #four #knowing-a-person #suspicious #tobias

I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer. ↗

— Dave Barry

#am #computer #his #i #i am

I've always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#been #computers #i #intersection #revolutionize

Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek? ↗

— Tracey Ullman

#computers #does #episode #everyone #foil

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#about #affect #cell #cell phones #computers

Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#instead #jackie #like #only #study

You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize. ↗

— Gary Coleman

#computers #creativity #electronics #involve #lot