#computers

Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something. ↗

— Mark Rylance

#computers #difficult #elizabethan #enjoyment #form

There were no PCs when I started programming on computers. ↗

— Dave Winer

#i #pcs #programming #started #were

Patience is a virtue and the best things in life are worth waiting for. ↗

— Julie Spira

#cyberdating #dating-advice #humor #julie-spira #online-dating

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

A few years ago a friend said that I use to hunt and fish and build houses and things but now my whole life revolved around my computer I replied "But my computer revolves around the world ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#computers #internet #stantasyland #life

Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#internet #internet

The Googleplex Star Thinker is a super-computer from the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity and has the ability to calculate the trajectory of every single dust particle during a five-week Dangrabad Beta sand blizzard. The Deep Thought computer call it a pocket calculator in comparison to itself. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#humor #science-fiction #science

People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#around #bad #better #cars #computer

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.' ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#computer #down #expressions #feared #modern

China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#american #american companies #china #companies #computers