#compute

Some people may have noticed the new computer shelf at the anchor desk. Rather than phone calls, we want to take real time e-mails, and we'll be starting that very soon. ↗

— Catherine Crier

#calls #computer #desk #e-mails #may

So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers. ↗

— Thomas Dolby

#audio #companies #computers #go #me

So evidently music was a killer app and is a killer app for computer and the Internet; it just took the tech industry a long time to hear that message. ↗

— Thomas Dolby

#evidently #hear #industry #internet #just

All right," she snaps at the computer. "I get it. I'm slowing down! Gods!" "Activating Generic Ocular Display Sequence. G.O.D.S." The front of her shuttle goes transparent and Vol experiences a nauseating wave of vertigo. "No, that's not what I meant! It's an expression! What the hell?" "Error. Request must be made in the form of a command." "Oh, f*** you." "Error. Command not recognised." "I'm not surprised," Vol mutters. ↗

— Nenia Campbell

#endgame #nenia-campbell #vol #experience

One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#come #computer #could #general #home

Given that I have to share my computer with my three children, it's not usually a site that I get to spend that much time on. I'm usually on the Nickelodeon site, coloring with my little five year old or something. ↗

— Todd McFarlane

#coloring #computer #five #get #given

Computers are scary. They're nightmares to fix, lose our stuff, and, on occasion, they crash, producing the blue screen of death. Steve Jobs knew this. He knew that computers were bulky and hernia-inducing and Darth Vader black. He understood the value of declarative design. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#blue #computers #crash #darth #darth vader

Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything. ↗

— Ted Nelson

#desktop #everything #files #hierarchical #mean

So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go. ↗

— Ted Nelson

#any #computer #connections #could #form

On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it earlier. ↗

— Ken Olsen

#anything #back #business #computer #does