To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was just beyond my imagination that - with my background - my own son would become an FBI agent.
Reality is observer-determined - it's a spatio-temporal process, which fortunately means that things must change.
Most rules that you think are written in stone are just societal. You can change the game and really reach for the stars and make the world a better place.
People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.
Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination.
I closely follow everything about user interface or human-computer interface: technology that makes computers closer to the way the human being actually functions.
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.
The basic idea of Games With a Purpose is that we are taking a problem that computers cannot yet solve, and we are getting people to solve it for us while they are playing a game.
Everybody jokes about that old story about the world only needing five computers, but when you think about it, that's where we're heading.
Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.
In almost every technology area that we're ahead in, we're ahead in because the United States leads the world in computers.
When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.
I used to have this Mercedes, a dark blue 450SLC, which was the most beautiful car. I'd like to have another unusual, beautiful car.
My mother's sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male cousins.
Yes, sir, a patrol car came and took me down to a station where they were trying to develop films, but they hadn't got the facilities to develop colored film.
You have to maintain the balance between fast growth and smooth growth. It's like driving a car and knowing when to balance the gas pedal and the brake.
I'm a really bad driver. When I'm in L.A. my husband always has to park the car for me, because I'm likely to hit something.
Short stories, for me, it's like you step inside this brand new car and you drive it and you drive it into a tree and you walk away from it.
We are able to use technology to make it clear that someone's car is available or a room in a home is accessible; that there is an available desk in an office someplace.
