That was something that shaped my thinking regarding Estonia: the idea that we should be getting our young people to work with computers.
What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think ‘outside the box,’ people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done.
The same computers that make it impossible for you to cheat on your income tax can ensure that the blood of your group is in the ambulance that picks you up from a car smash.
Computers add convenience to our everyday lives, but we are limited in what we can do with technology others have imagined. The ability for humans to teach machines entirely new things – coding – is nothing short of a superpower.
I’m a troglodyte. I think that’s the word for it. Like an old school weird person who throws bricks at their computers.
I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
My background was in graphic design, but when I was doing it, it was all hand-drawn stuff, not computers.
Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.
As computers have become more powerful, computer graphics have advanced to the point where it’s possible to create photo-realistic images. The bottleneck wasn’t, ‘How do we make pixels prettier?’ It was, ‘How do we engage with them more?’
Computers ought to help people find their own best path through lots of textual information.
I know so many people who actually just watch television on their computers now and don’t even really watch their TV anymore.
The computers people have are no longer on their desks but in their hands, and that is probably the transformative feature of the technology. These computers are with you, in the world.
Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can’t be good for you.
Social media can be dangerous. People hide behind their computers and write negative things, so I like to keep it about communicating with my fans.
Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don’t have to be that good to be much better.
By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.
Our computers have become windows through which we can gaze upon a world that is virtually without horizons or boundaries.
My goal wasn’t to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers. I only started the company when I realized I could be an engineer forever.
I am such a gearhead. In my recording studio, I personally engineer and edit everything on computers.
Cable boxes are, almost without exception, awful. They’re under-powered computers running very badly designed software. Their channel guides are slow, poorly laid out, and usually riddled with ads.
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.
Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.
Until computers and robots make quantum advances, they basically remain adding machines: capable only of doing things in which all the variables are controlled and predictable.
My mom bought a computer in the ‘80s to do accounting, and she was so smart at computers that we spent all our time with them. My childhood was sitting on the floor of her office and figuring out how to program with my mom.
At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.
