In high school, I used to teach guitar and fix computers by the hour. I was looking for some way to make some cash, so I actually learned how to play guitar in order to try to teach it. Jon Oringer cashcomputerfix Change image and share on social
Look at what Silicon Valley has done - the advance of computers. Buzz Aldrin advancecomputersilicon Change image and share on social
I don't type on the computer or edit. Law students who went to law school really just a couple years after I did were brought up all on the computers and that's how they do it, but I was still part of the older school. John Roberts bringcomputercouple share on social
Computers are very powerful tools, but in the simulated world of the computer, everything has to be calculated. Margaret Wertheim calculatecomputerpowerful Change image and share on social
We've lost these qualities, these abilities to do something by hand. Some illustrators have it still, but it's just not art. We have photography. We have cameras and computers that do it better and faster. Gerhard Richter abilityartcamera share on social
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 branchcivilisationcomputer Change image and share on social
We went from a world where almost nobody knew anything about computers to a world where almost all of us are computer geeks for a huge fraction of our day. And I'd like to see that happen with the digital world of biological molecules, too. George M. Church biologicalcomputerday share on social
How can you allow the trading companies to locate computers closer to exchanges and flash millions of bids to give an unfair advantage?... Even professionals are losing faith in some aspects of the system. Mario Gabelli advantageaspectbid share on social
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 50sbeginbig Change image and share on social
Maths is fundamentally a different process in education than it is in the real world. There is an insistence that we do maths by hand when most of it is done by computers. The idea that you have to do everything by hand before you can operate a computer is nonsense. Conrad Wolfram computereducationfundamentally share on social
