While games are fun to play, children should grow up not just being the consumers of technology but also the creators of technology.
The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign of Charles the First.
We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?'
It's hard to propose a $100 laptop for a world community of kids and then not say in the same breath that you're going to depend on the community to make software for it.
Big companies are looking closer term, and even the most technological companies spend less than 1% of sales on research. Startups have suffered the burst bubble.
Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.
As a child, because manga was always around and I was reading it, I naturally thought, 'Hey, I'd like to draw manga - I'd like to be a manga author!'
I'm the sort of person that doesn't really have specific 'inspiration.' It probably comes more from my doubts and my desires.
I love the stars. Because they can't say anything. I love the stars. Because they do not judge anyone.
Sarah will talk to me about someone and I don't know who she's talking about, but if she talks to my mother, the two of them will know exactly - and across several generations, too.
The National Academy of Sciences would be unable to give a unanimous decision if asked whether the sun would rise tomorrow.
I see harm reduction as a way of engaging people as part of that path to recovery.
It's a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.
One of the characteristics I cherish in my friends is their childlike gullibility, and several excited minutes were spent trying to actually find this book.
I want the 'Roots' biopic to be animated - I see Charles Schulz drawing us. I think it would be more hilarious with the voices of children.
I prefer to remember the happy things over 10 years, the things that went well. Let me see, what did go well?
While I was serving, I worked as an adventure training officer, teaching soldiers how to ski, canoe and climb.
As a rule, anything that is pretty you avoid when on an expedition in the polar extremes. Normally anything other than white means a hazard such as a crevasse.
If you really dissect hip-hop you will find a whole lot of Charles Mingus, Ron Carter, Ahmad Jamal, a lot of classic jazz samples in there.
Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them.
'River of Light,' to a dense but powerful score commissioned from Charles Wuorinen and with ravishing lighting by Mark Stanley, has depth and resonance.
