Amazin’.’ he said again. ‘He just looks as though he’s thinking, right?”Er…yes.”But he’s not actually thinking?”Er…no.”So…he just gives the impression of thinking but really it’s just a show?”Er…yes.’Just like everyone else, then really,’ said Ridcully

Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective computer-mediated communication.

Plus, it always bugged me to see how my dad became unable to use the phone when the computers started taking over. So part of my motivation for this fight is in his name.

The cost of computers is still a problem along with access to Internet service, … If you don’t see marketing efforts toward your group and someone to set up the computer and internet service, you are less likely to have it.

It’s hard to get motivated fixing a compile-time syntax error when you can buy a powder that turns a house into a monster.

These are the first personal computers in history with dual processors, … This is the kind of stuff many of our customers do every day and this can save them an hour or two each day.

Asked about the fact that Apple’s iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs joked, ‘It’s like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell.

Despite of the growing industry in technology and the sophistication of cellular phones to tabs and touch screens, the level of human brain from the genius to dumb can never be compared to computers”.

On job portals, there are more Employers than Seekers, in real world it is reverse..

The first quarter was better because of better-than-expected extra demand for personal computers.

Opponents past and present have the same essential weakness about them: first they want to use you, then they want to be you, then they want to snuff you out.

When I tried to figure out how computers worked, I was disgusted. I thought it was totally brute force. I felt there had to be a more elegant way to do this.

Computers have very tight profit margins, making it difficult to convince manufacturers to be more environmentally friendly in the manufacturing process.

Kids want to have the latest in technology, just like adults. Kids have grown up with computers. They are not afraid of technology, they embrace it.

What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can’t get that from a computer.

(The) vast majority of the machines infected…are home computers. Nothing will happen on them until people get home from work and boot up their machines. We’d like to think that they whole problem was avoided and everybody cleaned up their machines in time. But unfortunately, that’s probably not true.

E-commerce businesses, even e-commerce specialists, have yet to realize that the WWW is first and foremost an emotional experience. Few websites reflect this important priority.

What Apple Computers are not doing (when) using the Apple mark is selling software, delivery systems, or anything of the like. They are selling music. And that is in violation of the agreement.

A mind is a simulation that simulates itself.

Forty-two!” yelled Loonquawl. “Is that all you’ve got to show for seven and a half million years’ work?” “I checked it very thoroughly,” said the computer, “and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you’ve never actually known what the question is.

The Googleplex Star Thinker is a super-computer from the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity and has the ability to calculate the trajectory of every single dust particle during a five-week Dangrabad Beta sand blizzard.The Deep Thought computer call it a pocket calculator in comparison to itself.

Helpfiles are traditionally outnumbered by no-help files, which superficially resemble a helpfile in form but not in content because they don’t actually tell you anything you don’t already know, or they answer every question except the one you’re asking, or you open them and a giant animated paper clip leaps out and cheerfully asks where...

Computers are quiet and clean and totally distracting because the Internet is there, lying in wait for a moment of weakness to pounce on your creativity and progress.

The new world will be a place of answers and no questions, because the only questions left will be answered by computers, because only computers will know what to ask

People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They’re wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.

There’s a bigger agenda here. Tandem has been in the forefront in moving to clustering [combining smaller computers’ processing power to act like a mainframe]. That’s one area that Compaq, along with Microsoft and Intel, want to move into.

As an orangutan cannot embrace higher mathematics or comprehend the architecture and operation of a computer, we humans __ so good at loudly proclaiming our intelligence and applauding our own doltish displays of cerebral gymnastics __ cannot begin to understand the true structure and functioning of the Universe.

If you are going to need more computers in a school, you need to know that before you start renovating so you can provide the electrical hookups necessary.

In their camps they have airstrips, planes … very sophisticated equipment like computers and satellite transmitters, everything you can possibly imagine that isn’t necessary to evangelize indigenous groups,

The externalization of memory [via the use of external symbolic storage systems] has altered the actual memory architecture within which humans think, which is changing the role of biological memory, the way in which the human brain deploys its resources, and the form of modern culture.

Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.

We’ve had a lot more teens hanging out at the new library, … The kids really like the new computers and a lot of them come here to hang out with their friends and do their homework after school.

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 of the logical relations between the missing items. — From The Devil’s DP Dictionary

I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can’t really put a book on the Internet. Three companies have offered to put books by me on the Net, and I said, ‘If you can make something that has a nice jacket, nice paper with that nice smell, then...

To err is human – and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

A few years ago a friend said that I use to hunt and fish and build houses and things but now my whole life revolved around my computer I replied “But my computer revolves around the world

The next big wave for computers, at least as far as we can tell, is going to be these modular designs, so it’s a race to see which major brand does it first,

As he got older, he just became intimidated by these computers. It was kind of devastating for him.

It’s a non-issue for us… We sell computers.

Apple had a terrific quarter — we sold a record number of Power Macintosh G3 computers, customers love our new PowerBooks, Apple earned its highest profit in years and we ended the quarter with the lowest inventory level among the major PC players,

Was [Steve Jobs] smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius. His imaginative leaps were instinctive, unexpected, and at times magical. […] Like a pathfinder, he could absorb information, sniff the winds, and sense what lay ahead. Steve Jobs thus became the greatest business executive of our era, the one most certain to be...

We want to stand at the intersection of computers and humanism

Life is meant to explore the world, not computer.

The computers are theirs as long as they stay involved with the program.

… we have created a man with not one brain but two. … This new brain is intended to control the biological brain. … The patient’s biological brain is the peripheral terminal — the only peripheral terminal — for the new computer. … And therefore the patient’s biological brain, indeed his whole body, has become...

I’m expecting to get a couple more years out of these computers.

Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor.

After applying to hundreds of scholarships I finally felt that we are also beggars, no different than others, we are not on the street, uneducated, but we are sitting in front of computers with years of hardworking and repeatedly begging each and everyone to sponsor and support our education, not because we deserve, but we...

The Internet lets us do that for first time in the history of computers. It lets us, in effect, make them into one big parallel supercomputer.

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.