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«It (the computer) is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically. It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools.»
Author: Alan Kay
| About:
Computers
| Keywords:
dynamically, physically, simulate, simulated, simulating
«It [the computer] is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.»
Author: Alan Kay
| About:
Computers
| Keywords:
as such, as yet, barely, degrees, degrees of freedom, degree of freedom, Freedom of expression, investigated, representation
«? [I] recall thinking that the computer would never advance much further than this. Call me na?ve, but I seemed to have underestimated the universal desire to sit in a hard plastic chair and stare at a screen until your eyes cross.»
Author: David Sedaris
| About:
Computers
«Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.»
Author: Doug Larson
| About:
Computers
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called upon, Computers, Dog Eat Dog, eaten, formerly, functions, homework, including, perform, The Dog
«In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.»
«From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.»
«If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas.»
Author: Harold Abelson
| About:
Computers,
Learning
| Keywords:
array, arraying, computer program, delusion, dispel, fiddled, fiddles, fiddling, focus on, indexes, indices, integer, programming, real number, the Index, worrying
«If automobiles had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside»
Author: Robert Cringely
| About:
Automobiles,
Computers,
Evolution
| Keywords:
automobiles, a million, computer, cost, cycle, cycles, cycle on, cycling, development, explode, explodes, exploding, followed, gallon, gallons, killing, miles, miles per gallon, million, PER, per year, rolls, Rolls Royce, roll over, roll up
«If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.»
«It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.»
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