#computers

What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself. ↗

— Steve Wozniak

#actually #build #computer #could #did

This digital revolutionary still believes in most of the lovely deep ideals that energized our work so many years ago. At the core was a sweet faith in human nature. If we empowered individuals, we believed, more good than harm would result. The way the internet has gone sour since then is truly perverse. The central faith of the web's early design has been superseded by a different faith in the centrality of imaginary entities epitomized by the idea that the internet as a whole is coming alive and turning into a superhuman creature. The designs guided by this new, perverse kind of faith put people back in the shadows. The fad for anonymity has undone the great opening-of-everyone's-windows of the 1990s. While that reversal has empowered sadists to a degree, the worst effect is a degradation of ordinary people. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#internet #technology #design

Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#computer #computers #find #hook #just

The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor. ↗

— Wernher von Braun

#life #life

You can't trust the internet. ↗

— Nicolette Sheridan

#internet #trust #you

I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type. ↗

— Jack Welch

#afraid #because #i #internet #type

If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers! ↗

— Don Bluth

#both #computers #drawing #drudgery #i

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software. ↗

— Greg Egan

#branch #civilisation #computers #conscious #consists

Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy. ↗

— Adam Brody

#comic #comic books #computers #idiot #nerdy

I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one. ↗

— Dee Brown

#dog #i #i think #old #processors