#android

The room was a small square of hopelessness. A flash of red. And then: Dimensions: 10 ft. by 9 ft. I swallowed a horrific giggle. Perfect. And now I knew the exact measurements of hopelessness. ↗

— Debra Driza

#humor #humor

The New or Future Eve is emptied of all inner life and turned into a shell. The bitter irony in this is that her perfection recalls nothing so much as a corpse. ↗

— Asti Hustvedt

#corpse #robot #simulacra #woman #life

Nokia and Research in Motion needed a modern operating system. They could have bought Palm or Android before Google did, but they didn't. Today, it's probably too late, and at the time they would have been criticized for overpaying, but as they say - shift happens. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#been #before #bought #could #criticized

We think Android is very, very fragmented, and becoming more fragmented by the day. And as you know, Apple strives for the integrated model so that the user isn't forced to be the systems integrator. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#apple #becoming #day #forced #fragmented

A human being without the proper empathy or feeling is the same as an android built so as to lack it, either by design or mistake. We mean, basically, someone who does not care about the fate which his fellow living creatures fall victim to; he stands detached, a spectator, acting out by his indifference John Donne's theorem that 'No man is an island,' but giving that theorem a twist: that which is a mental and a moral island is not a man. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#humanity #design

My own self-consciousness cries out to me coldly: how does one love zero? ↗

— Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

#love #robot #zero #love

I think right now it's a battle for the mindshare of developers and for the mindshare of customers, and right now iPhone and Android are winning that battle. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#battle #customers #developers #i #i think

Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#ethical #go #long #long way #major

Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component in common between Android and GNU/Linux is Linux, the kernel. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#android #because #between #common #component

The Android, as we've said, is only the first hours of Love, immobilized, the hour of the ideal made eternal prisoner ↗

— Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

#love #love