#processing

The brain, he writes, is like Kublai Khan, the great Mongol emperor of the thirteenth century. It sits enthroned in its skull, "encased in darkness and silence," at a lofty remove from brute reality. Messengers stream in from every corner of the sensory kingdom, bringing word of distant sights, sounds, and smells. Their reports arrive at different rates, often long out of date, yet the details are all stitched together into a seamless chronology. The difference is that Kublai Khan was piecing together the past. The brain is describing the present—processing reams of disjointed data on the fly, editing everything down to an instantaneous now. How does it manage it? ↗

— Burkhard Bilger

#data #david-eagleman #processing #senses #dating

The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it. ↗

— Saul Williams

#different way #emanate #most #most powerful #political

All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#consists #define #determine #how #information

The era of industrial Britain, where a large section of our workforce provided cheap labour in factories and processing goods, is over. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#cheap #era #factories #goods #industrial

I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#answer #bill #bill gates #boom #different

While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile. ↗

— Alan Autry

#call #center #develop #economic #expand

Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#computer #computers #find #hook #just

In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely the string class and regular expressions. Regular expressions are built into the language and are very tuned up for use. ↗

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

#class #daily #daily lives #expressions #hard

To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality. ↗

— Cliff Shaw

#appear #capable #communication #coordination #devise

Most of the people who had PCs did not have modems and could not use those PCs as communicating devices. They really were using them for spreadsheets or word processing or storing recipes or playing games or what have you. ↗

— Steve Case

#could #devices #did #games #had