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" Computers were programmed to swap out error-prone, inconsistent human calculation with digital perfection. "

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" My first synthesizer was the VCS3. I got it in Bristol in the late Sixties, long before Pink Floyd used them. I had to sell an acoustic guitar and an old reel-to-reel tape recorder to raise the money. You can do fantastic things with modern computers, but you cannot use them in the same intuitive, spontaneous way you can a VCS3. "

Jean-Michel Jarre

" People are on their computers more than watching TV, because you can only watch voyeur TV, which is basically what reality shows are, for so long. "

" Work is what structures adults' lives: it gives us purpose, focus, a set of responsibilities, and an identity. So when people are not participating in the labour market, all sorts of other things often start to go wrong. "

" 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?' "

" Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done. "

" We need a lot more technically literate people. The computers are the tools that are going to solve essentially all problems, and the people who can use them better will be more effective. "

" Some computers have security software that make it impossible to hack into, and it's the same with brains - some malfunction, and some, you can't hack into them at all. "

" Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool. "

" What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents. "

" So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature. "

Stephen Wolfram

" When I was in Japan on tour in 2010, I felt like I was 30 years into the future. I love technology and they are so advanced with their phones, computers, everything. I think they had the iPhone way before we did in the U.S. I love gadgets, games, social media and I try to stay ahead on all that stuff, but they get it all first. "

" I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design. "

" Google did a great job hacking the Web to create search - and then monetizing search with advertising. And Apple did a great job humanizing hardware and software so that formerly daunting computers and applications could become consumer-friendly devices - even a lifestyle brand. "

Douglas Rushkoff

" Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. "

Joseph Campbell

" People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory. "

" I'm a very methodical writer. Before computers, I used reams of paper and stacks of index cards. "

" Doing a movie about computers between 1978 and 1982? You can't get much less sexy, less active than that. "

Joshua Michael Stern

" In our age of individualism, we see computers as ways through which we can express our individuality. But the truth is that the computers are really good at spotting the very opposite. The computers can see how similar we are, and they then have the ability to agglomerate us together into groups that have the same behaviours. "

" You can't trust the internet. "

Nicollette Sheridan

" In a way, digital cameras were like very early personal computers such as the Commodore 64 - clunky and able to do only a few things. "

" Most people are excited about themselves. Personal genome will deliver for inexpensively something about science to which you can relate. Just like computers are becoming something to which you can relate. It should be even easier to relate to your own biology, and I hope that will be one of the ways we get broader literacy in science. "

George M. Church

" Computers are really patient. They can sit there all day. It's a totally different situation dealing with humans. They can be tired or overly excited. "

" I think people, just because of digital recording and how computers have become such an important part of our lives, I think the means to record music now is in more people's hands. It's a lot cheaper than it used to be. "

" Work is really wrapped up with identity. Work is not just money for most people. "

" Your computer needn't be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at night. "

Simon Mainwaring

" History has suggested that the pessimists have been wrong time and time again. "

" I am such a gearhead. In my recording studio, I personally engineer and edit everything on computers. "

" My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers. "

" I'm trying to get through life without really knowing about computers, but I don't know if I am going to make it. "

" I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college. "