The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network.

Most of everything is very little of not very much at all.

On the first day of a college you will worry about how will you do inside the college? and at the last day of a college you will wonder what will you do outside the...

As I was leaving graduate school in 1974, I was recruited to join a fledgling SETI project at the Hat Creek Observatory in California, mainly because I knew how to program an ancient PDP8/S computer...

I have ADD or something. Even when I am doing something, it’s me on the computer, I’m painting and I’m writing music. I have to rotate what I’m doing every 15 minutes.

The computer may be incompetent in itself–that is, unable to do the work for which it was designed. This kind of incompetence can never be eliminated, because the Peter Principle applies in the plants where...

My computer file is zipped, but my pants are not. Let us make love like 1968, before Al Gore invented the internet.

I’m not a big gadget guy. When I write, I’ll do the whole thing by hand, and then I’ll put it into the computer.

Search engines finds the information, not necessarily the truth.

I am writing this on a computer that I can’t imagine living without. This is an alarming thought, the extent to which I have organised my life around a metal box full of wires (and,...

You don’t have to be a good musician if you’ve got certain computer skills.

I definitely play some games, like Nintendo D.S. or the Wii, and some computer games.

I use a really simple calendar program on my computer.

I had been hobbled, perhaps even crippled by a pervasive internet society I had come to depend on and take for granted… hit enter and let Google, that twenty-first century Big Brother, take care of...

I’m the only one in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that has Final Draft on my computer. Then you show up and go to any coffee shop in L.A., and there are a hundred people your age with...

Computing is kind of a mess. Your computer doesn’t know where you are. It doesn’t know what you’re doing. It doesn’t know what you know.

I know for a fact that no matter where I go, the memory and the suffering of not being with you will cripple me. I will go to work, fire up my PC, only to...

Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea.

The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.

Writing is a lot like making soup. My subconscious cooks the idea, but I have to sit down at the computer to pour it out.

As history has shown, any new computing device capable of running a game will, by hook or by crook, soon have them available. (aka, the “Loguidice Law”)

A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.

The only thing tinfoil should cover is a Kiss. But you wouldn’t know anything about kissing.

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.I have bought this wonderful machine...

Something like missionary reductionism has happened to the internet with the rise of web 2.0. The strangeness is being leached away by the mush-making process. Individual web pages as they first appeared in the early...

The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.

When I was a kid, they had a saying, ‘to err is human but to really fuck it up takes a computer.’

The storage capacity of the average human brain is two-hundred and fifty-six exabytes. However, the average adult human only uses approximately one billionth of that storage space effectively. This means my knowledge capacity is approximately...

How does it feel to be seven thousand years old?””That depends.””On what?””On how I want to feel.

Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click ‘I agree’ but you don’t know what you’re agreeing to.

When we launched the WineLibrary website in 1996, I didn’t even own a computer yet. I just understood that there was an opportunity here to market in a different way.

Database Management System [Origin: Data + Latin basus “low, mean, vile, menial, degrading, ounterfeit.”] A complex set of interrelational data structures allowing data to be lost in many convenient sequences while retaining a complete record...

No one messes around with a nerd’s computer and escapes unscathed.

We have never lived in a time with the opportunity to put a computer in the pocket of 5 billion people.

Yet the possibility of information storage, beyond what men and governments ever had before, can make available at the touch of a button a man’s total history (including remarks put on his record by his...

All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer.

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer; art is everything else.

The spectacular thing about Johnny [von Neumann] was not his power as a mathematician, which was great, or his insight and his clarity, but his rapidity; he was very, very fast. And like the modern...

A mind is a simulation that simulates itself.

If you control the code, you control the world. This is the future that awaits us.

First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought...

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.

They’re called sock puppets. We create armies of artificial online personas – user accounts that espouse views certain interested parties want espoused. We flood forums, online comment sections, social media. … It’s amazing what a...

There’s a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time. That’s true of all types of consumer electronics.

All good ‘Things’ must come to an IP endpoint in the IoT for proper Netiquette.

I wouldn’t know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it.

You see, unlike most writers today, I do not use a computer. I write the old-fashioned way: on the walls of caves.

Computers can not dream, they can not visualize – That is your part and that’s how you create, innovate and make difference.

As additional precautions, Kranz requested that a two-hundred-foot radio antenna (called a deep-space dish) in Australia be added to the global network tracking and communicating with the spacecraft, and that additional computers at the Goddard...

It’s proper Netiquette to view in-App webpages in a mobile browser for better security.