In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.
The body itself is an information processor. Memory resides not just in brains but in every cell. No wonder genetics bloomed along with information theory. DNA is the quintessential information molecule, the most advanced message processor at the cel...
The 65,536 processors were inside the Connection Machine.
Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast.
Scientifically, happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its finite resources as you process the world.
Then after that came word processors and it's hard to make those laugh.
Briefly, to program it requires an absolute understanding of how all 65,536 processors are interconnected.
Attention is the limited resource on the internet - not disk capacity, processor speed or bandwidth.
I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one.
A food processor, or even one of those small bowls that fit on a stick blender, is a real treasure. No, that's not an overstatement.
Paul Hackett: What do you want from me? I'm just a word processor!
I think that autistic brains tend to be specialized brains. Autistic people tend to be less social. It takes a ton of processor space in the brain to have all the social circuits.
The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.'
Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors.
The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.
Fortunately, when it comes to meat and poultry, I have the really wonderful situation of having producers and processors that produce and process a very high-quality product.
The Terminator: My CPU is a neural-net processor; a learning computer. The more contact I have with humans, the more I learn.
[the Marines are being torn apart by the Aliens in the Atmosphere Processor Hive] Hicks: Where's Apone? Where's Apone? Hudson: The Sarge is gone! Let's get the fuck outta here!
Although a food processor is not an absolutely essential piece of equipment, because you can certainly chop, grate, slice, knead and mix everything by hand, it does do all these things very quickly and efficiently and saves you time and energy.
There's a lot of hand-wringing going on about the death of journalism and particularly the death of investigative journalism. What I see is that there is more need than ever to have experienced information processors - people who can look through thi...
One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices...