I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers. Jack Kilby businesscomputerelectronic Change image and share on social
More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work. Clive Thompson computerfixmodern 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
In short, software is eating the world. Marc Andreessen eatshortsoftware Change image and share on social
I can live without endless television programmes and films just centered around computers. I can sort of live without that. Martin Freeman centercomputerendless Change image and share on social
I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type. Jack Welch afraidinternettype Change image and share on social
I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone's inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island. Matthew McConaughey agecomputerdaylight share on social
Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination. Bob Taft combinationconnectioncost Change image and share on social
Millions of nerdy kids who grew up in the 1980s could only find the components they needed at local Radio Shacks, and the stores were like a lifeline to a better world where everybody understood computers. Annalee Newitz 1980scomponentcomputer share on social
The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer. Alan Turing carrycomputerdigital Change image and share on social