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" A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they're a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that's the way society has become, especially in pop culture. "

Scott Weiland

Society

Culture

Distance

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" I really have paid no attention to social media. It's never been something that I've done. There are people that put up tour dates and basically say what's going on, but I need to get more involved, because I hear about rumors that are absolutely ridiculous. "

" There's so much free material on the Internet you can learn from, and some people are pure self-starters: they pick up computers and teach themselves everything. Certainly there are millions of people like that. But at the same time, I think it's a pretty small percentage of the population. "

" There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers. "

" My poor children have been the subject of all of my experiments. We're still doing what I call 'Amish summers' where I turn off all electronics and pack away all their computers and stuff and watch them scream for a while until they settle down into, like, an electronic-free summer. "

" Equipped with cell phones, beepers, and handheld computers, the 'conspicuously industrious' blur the line between home and office by working anytime, anywhere. "

" It seems like everyone's got an agenda, and the agenda seems to be selling magazines or air time with sensational stories. "

" My mom was a biological illustrator for a time before computers replaced that job. "

" I thought of computers as very low class. I thought of myself as a pure mathematician and was interested in partial differential equations and topology and things like that. "

" I don't understand computers. I've been unable to construct a working mental model of how they do what they do. I can break software by looking at it. I can blow anything up. Without trying. It's sort of like being a dowser. And this extreme elaborate clumsiness on my part is actually something people will pay me for. It's quite wonderful. "

Brenda Laurel

Looking

Computers

" Technological developments are changing the way we live, and there is much talk of digitalisation and the disruptive business models enabled by smart phones, tablets, computers, and the 'Internet of things.' "

" I played in Velvet Revolver, which is a raw, bombastic blues band with a punk rock edge to it. It's like everything is based around the blues, no matter what the groove is. "

" I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system. "

" Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated. "

" I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it. "

" Our computers have become windows through which we can gaze upon a world that is virtually without horizons or boundaries. "

" The early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelancers, and then transact directly with peers over networks. Digital technology would create tremendous slack, allow us to apply its asynchronous, decentralized qualities to our own work and lives. "

" The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all. "

" I used to just write about my own apathy, but that youthful, apathetic way of looking at things grew thin as I got older. "

" We think of computers as smart and powerful machines. But your goldfish is smarter. "

" I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted. "

" One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible. "

" We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth. "

" But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out. "

" I take computers practically apart and put them back together. I have a supercomputer I built over the years out of different computers. "

" I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer. "

" As computers have become more powerful, computer graphics have advanced to the point where it's possible to create photo-realistic images. The bottleneck wasn't, 'How do we make pixels prettier?' It was, 'How do we engage with them more?' "

" To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge. "