People need to get out and do some more exercise, especially children who are stuck inside with computers.
I’ve always shied away from computers, the Internet and all that. I’m a bit more traditional, really – pick up a newspaper, pick up a phone.
I start every book with something that outrages me. I’m outraged by the FBI, the CIA, and computers that seem to have catalogued our lives. Power too often is accompanied by irresponsibility.
We can’t really know ourselves because we have not created ourselves. But we can know computers, we can know cars, because anything that we made, we can understand.
Computers intimidate me.
I am not great at computers. If I were to try shopping through Google, I’d end up with 33 vests.
I was using computers for music in the ‘70s, ’80s and ‘90s, and people didn’t get it. They thought you should only use computers for your taxes and making pie charts.
Nobody expects that just because they’ve made computers better they’re going to give them to you free.
I think I compose as a listener: improvising and listening back excites me because I get to ideas that never would have occurred. Then I bring in the computers and samplers… and I begin to loop and process and change them.
This is a man who was 23 years old when he theorized the idea of creating a programmable machine, and in that way, Turing foresaw computers and artificial intelligence. These were revolutionary ideas at that time.
We think of computers as smart and powerful machines. But your goldfish is smarter.
Everyone talks about how much data’s in the world. Except, actually, 80% of it is pretty blind to computers. I mean, it can store it. But if it’s a movie, a poem, a song, it doesn’t know what it’s actually saying or doing.
No computer or smartphone can ever be considered 100 percent ‘safe.’ We’re all engaged in a perpetual battle with criminals and hostile governments trying to use computers and the Internet to steal information and identities.
My first computers were a Timex Sinclair and an Apple II.
I’m pretty into computers. I used to be a lot more into it when I was younger.
Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.
In my view, the fact that computers caught up to humans and completely dominate humans in chess and some other domains already, that says there’s evidence that, yes, in principle, they can be better programmers than humans.
I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.
You have to be very skilled in this industry. I grew in this industry; we created the very beginnings of this industry. We made the first PCs (personal computers) in the world.
In computers, we do all kinds of manual manipulations. We grab and drag icons. We click on and open windows. We pull down a screen. We stretch a screen. We scroll up and down.
Some computers have security software that make it impossible to hack into, and it’s the same with brains – some malfunction, and some, you can’t hack into them at all.
I was born in Tamil Nadu. I built HCL in UP. The first computers of the world were built in UP, and the UP government has supported us all through.
You can model experiments on computers now and then execute them, and you don’t actually need a fully stocked lab.
I’m a very methodical writer. Before computers, I used reams of paper and stacks of index cards.
I’ve found that people who design computers don’t know a lot about displays.
