#computer

Beyond that, states had to also have electronic voting machines that made it possible for people who are physically handicapped to vote in private... and the computerized voting machine made it very easy for, particularly, the blind. ↗

— DeForest Soaries

#beyond #blind #computerized #easy #electronic

When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it's a success. It's not popularity for our code but it's success for our goal. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#computers #developing #development #explicitly #free

If there is a Like button in a page, Facebook knows who visited that page. And it can get IP address of the computer visiting the page even if the person is not a Facebook user. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#button #computer #even #facebook #get

Computers make me totally blank out. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#computers #make #me #out #totally

In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#else #field #moment #program #prophecy

I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks. ↗

— Florence Henderson

#age #computer #daughter #freaks #i

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#steve-jobs #courage

If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny. ↗

— Steve Wozniak

#computer #could #design #designed #every

The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#computer #gadget #philosophy #change

Now, 75 years [after To Kill a Mockingbird], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. [Open Letter, O Magazine, July 2006] ↗

— Harper Lee

#communication #computers #critical-thinking #modern-life #reading