#computers

Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them. ↗

— Richard Dooling

#because #computers #created #credit #default

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager. ↗

— Eugene Jarvis

#could #enslaved #got #how #i

We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers. ↗

— Bill McCollum

#break #demand #glorify #into #privacy

That's the new way - with computers, computers, computers. That's the way we can have the cell survive and get some new information in high resolution. We started about five years ago and, today, I think we have reached the target. ↗

— Lennart Nilsson

#ago #cell #computers #five #get

Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us. ↗

— Jef Raskin

#now #oppressing #our #right #servant

It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies. ↗

— Mike Royko

#asylum #babbling #been #electronic #filled

I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'. ↗

— Bruce Schneier

#am #answer #asked #average #ensure

For most people, home we represented by four walls and a roof. Not for Noa. She preferred a motherboard to a mother, a keyboard to house keys. Nothing was more comforting than the hum of a spinning hard drive. ↗

— Michelle Gagnon

#geek-humor #home

The information age is so psychotic – without the cell phone and Internet, I would be drama free right now. ↗

— Lauren Barnholdt

#humor #information-age #technology #age

Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they revert to bad, mob-like behaviors. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#crowd #individuality #internet #mob #technology