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" People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium. "

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" Right at the start, when I was about 13 or 14, I only had an Amiga 500 Plus running a bit of tracker software called OctaMED. My brother was big into his computers, and when he moved up to a proper PC, I took charge of the Amiga. "

Calvin Harris

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Big

Brother

" 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. "

" It's not as if I've never been awkward myself. I'm a big gamer, so I've had access to that type of personality. I used to go to these LAN parties; that was before high-speed Internet. The only way you could get lag-free gaming was to haul these huge computers to people's houses. "

" Personal computers were created by some teenagers in garages because the, the wisdom of the computer industry was that people didn't want these little toys on their desk. "

" People are good at figuring out what's attractive, and computers are good at quickly searching and finding. You put them together, and bang! "

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

Jean Rostand

Why

Computers

" Music is composed on computers and other electronic equipment; producers don't want to spend money on orchestra. "

" Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. "

" A wide variety of devices beyond personal computers are arriving, many of which will be used to browse the Web... The Flash engineering team has taken this on with a major overhaul of the mainstream Flash Player for a variety of devices. "

" Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy. "

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

" Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there. "

Ralph Merkle

Computers

Important

" I think a lot of people will be liberated from a lot of oppressive manufacturing jobs, or a lot of service jobs, because they'll be done by computers. There'll be the world's best education available online and free. "

" Technology has forever changed the world we live in. We're online, in one way or another, all day long. Our phones and computers have become reflections of our personalities, our interests, and our identities. They hold much that is important to us. "

" What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers? "

Walter F. Mondale

Kids

Japanese

" I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers. "

" 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. "

" Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same. "

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

" Technology has moved away from sharing and toward ownership. This suits software and hardware companies just fine: They create new, bloated programs that require more disk space and processing power. We buy bigger, faster computers, which then require more complex operating systems, and so on. "

" Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water. "

" If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently. "

" I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'. "

" I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago. "

" If net neutrality goes away, it will fundamentally change everything about the Internet. "

" It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway', but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies. "

" Cryptocurrency currencies take the concept of money, and they take it native into computers, where everything is settled with computers and doesn't require external institutions or trusted third parties to validate things. "

" As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some of our memory to them. We would ask questions, and our machines would give oracular - or supremely practical - replies. "

" Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in. "

" I start every book with something that outrages me. I'm outraged by the FBI, the CIA, and computers that seem to have catalogued our lives. Power too often is accompanied by irresponsibility. "