Bounty hunters these days – because everything is so sophisticated with computers and surveillance, it doesn’t have to be a one-man-army-type guy who goes in and kicks a door down.
You can’t have thousands of cars without good computers on the electric grid.
Starting early and getting girls on computers, tinkering and playing with technology, games and new tools, is extremely important for bridging the gender divide that exists now in computer science and in technology.
I’m encouraging kids to use computers at their own pace to build aspirations.
Computers are very powerful tools, but in the simulated world of the computer, everything has to be calculated.
Computers get better faster than anything else ever.
How did the economy produce all these amazing things that we have around us – computers and cell phones and so on? There were a bunch of ideas, and the good ones grew and prospered. And the bad ones were pretty ruthlessly weeded out.
There are jobs, particularly database-oriented ones, for which computers are necessary, but for everyday office life, I question whether they have brought the productivity that their enormous cost, up to £10,000 per person, demands.
Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we’d get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
I am very bad at computers. I don’t really know how to write email.
My dad could be beyond brilliant but totally introverted. If we’re talking about computers, he’s on. Otherwise, he’s a total recluse – he stays in the house and won’t leave, and I’m like that. If I’m not working, I’m locked up in my room.
People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.
There’s no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers.
I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.
I’ve come to a view that humans will continue to do what we do well, and that computers will continue to do what they do very well, and the two will coexist, but in different spaces.
Before computers, you’d start designing using shapes of cubes. Now I can start with something like a handkerchief, an object that doesn’t have strong inside and outside boundaries or much closed volume.
Personal computers were created by some teenagers in garages because the, the wisdom of the computer industry was that people didn’t want these little toys on their desk.
The basic idea of Games With a Purpose is that we are taking a problem that computers cannot yet solve, and we are getting people to solve it for us while they are playing a game.
Technologies evolve in the strangest ways. Computers were created to calculate ballistics equations, and now we use them to create amusing illusions. Creating amusing illusions is a big business if you play it right.
I like computers as a tool. I like them as an instrument. I think they’re just pretty.
It’s a misconception that people over 65 do not use computers. They love them; they are always consulting Dr Google.
In almost every technology area that we’re ahead in, we’re ahead in because the United States leads the world in computers.
People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there’s been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium.
Some claim that computers will, by 2050, achieve human capabilities. Of course, in some respects they already have.
Doing a movie about computers between 1978 and 1982? You can’t get much less sexy, less active than that.
