So evidently music was a killer app and is a killer app for computer and the Internet; it just took the tech industry a long time to hear that message.
People are always looking at their phones and computer. It's the first place people turn in the morning and where everyone's keeping in touch and getting their news.
Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.
I am a print addict. I have an ebook and a computer but I remain hooked on print.
A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
I have an Apple computer, which I use to play Spider Solitaire and do research on the Internet.
Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?
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.
A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.
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Nothing happens to a business growth until someone sells its product.
We live in an age of great jitteriness in the financial markets. And there's no doubt at all, I think, that the volume of computer-traded stocks has helped contribute to that.
In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer - in any language - would reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.
We're a depraved civilization. All this technology, all the computer games and the iPhones... nobody will sit for art anymore. What a dismaying state of humanity.
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to compute it.
One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.
