#computers

Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in. ↗

— Jack Kilby

#big #come #computers #electronics #first

Video games and computers have become babysitters for kids. ↗

— Taylor Kitsch

#computers #games #kids #video #video games

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020. ↗

— Ray Kurzweil

#about #achieve #brain #capacity #human

From cell phones to computers, quality is improving and costs are shrinking as companies fight to offer the public the best product at the best price. But this philosophy is sadly missing from our health-care insurance system. ↗

— John Shadegg

#cell #cell phones #companies #computers #costs

Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers. ↗

— William Shatner

#computers #day #draw #epic #extras

To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

#assistant #astronaut #charge #computers #fact

Information wants to be free.' So goes the saying. Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, seems to have said it first. I say that information doesn't deserve to be free. Cybernetic totalists love to think of the stuff as if it were alive and had its own ideas and ambitions. But what if information is inanimate? What if it's even less than inanimate, a mere artifact of human thought? What if only humans are real, and information is not? ... Information is alienated experience. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#information #internet #technology #experience

There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary numerals, and those who don't. ↗

— Ian Stewart

#computers #humor #humor

I am convinced that grandkids are inherently evil people who tell their grandparents to "just go to the library and open up an e-mail account - it's free and so simple. ↗

— Scott Douglas

#libraries #seniors #librarians

Any idiot can put up a website. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#humor #internet #humor