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" Maths is fundamentally a different process in education than it is in the real world. There is an insistence that we do maths by hand when most of it is done by computers. The idea that you have to do everything by hand before you can operate a computer is nonsense. "

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" Not only have computers changed the way we think, they've also discovered what makes humans think - or think we're thinking. At least enough to predict and even influence it. "

Douglas Rushkoff

Think

Influence

Computers

" A computer is a general-purpose machine with which we engage to do some of our deepest thinking and analyzing. This tool brings with it assumptions about structuredness, about defined interfaces being better. Computers abhor error. "

" I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill. "

" The basic idea of Games With a Purpose is that we are taking a problem that computers cannot yet solve, and we are getting people to solve it for us while they are playing a game. "

Luis von Ahn

People

Purpose

" I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect. "

" When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night. "

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

" The manufacture and running of all the world's computers, the toxicity of the hardware mountains that we currently dump on other countries; all this can be totted up on the environmental account of web-users and its authors. "

" Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us. "

Jean Rostand

Why

Computers

" All my kids were raised on computers: They were home-schooled on the Internet, so they're pretty good at that stuff. And I'm proud of them, but I don't really keep up with it. "

" Growing up, I spent my time doing useless stuff looking at computers. "

" In almost every technology area that we're ahead in, we're ahead in because the United States leads the world in computers. "

" And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it's the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers. "

" Computers are very powerful tools, but in the simulated world of the computer, everything has to be calculated. "

" A smartphone links patients' bodies and doctors' computers, which in turn are connected to the Internet, which in turn is connected to any smartphone anywhere. The new devices could put the management of an individual's internal organs in the hands of every hacker, online scammer, and digital vandal on Earth. "

" I've come to a view that humans will continue to do what we do well, and that computers will continue to do what they do very well, and the two will coexist, but in different spaces. "

" I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything. "

" There's an evolution from, today we tell computers to do stuff for us, to where computers can actually do stuff for us. For example, if I go and pick up my kids, it would be good for my car to be aware that my kids have entered the car and change the music to something that's appropriate for them. "

" My dad could be beyond brilliant but totally introverted. If we're talking about computers, he's on. Otherwise, he's a total recluse - he stays in the house and won't leave, and I'm like that. If I'm not working, I'm locked up in my room. "

" The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim. "

" We are having trouble finding teachers to teach STEM. We also need to make sure schools have the resources. Some communities have multiple computers for each student in their schools. Other schools don't have textbooks, let alone computers. "

" Kids today are smarter than we ever were. And they've got computers, too, which is awesome. They're scary to me. "

" While the recent addition of the National Guard providing a support role manning computers and cameras has allowed more Border Patrol agents to work the field, more agents are still needed. "

" The idea that so many kids eat rubbish and sit on computers all day long appals me and getting them into sport is a major way of getting them off computers and leading healthier lives. "

Kirsty Gallacher

Day

Eat

" I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. "

" Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming. "

" People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster. "

" Every one of today's smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers that guided astronauts to the moon. "

Peter Thiel

Today

Power

" I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny. "

" It's important to be informed about issues like usability, reliability, security, privacy, and some of the inherent limitations of computers. "