#computers

Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything. ↗

— Ted Nelson

#desktop #everything #files #hierarchical #mean

That's the new way - with computers, computers, computers. That's the way we can have the cell survive and get some new information in high resolution. We started about five years ago and, today, I think we have reached the target. ↗

— Lennart Nilsson

#ago #cell #computers #five #get

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all. ↗

— Adam Osborne

#designing #future #lies #people #realize

There were no PCs when I started programming on computers. ↗

— Dave Winer

#i #pcs #programming #started #were

We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#actions #after #ask #certain #computers

My e-mail address is actually my wife's e-mail address. I actually hate computers. ↗

— Joe Sakic

#address #computers #e-mail #hate #i

I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#care #computers #fast #how #i

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

I am convinced that grandkids are inherently evil people who tell their grandparents to "just go to the library and open up an e-mail account - it's free and so simple. ↗

— Scott Douglas

#libraries #seniors #librarians

Any idiot can put up a website. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#humor #internet #humor