It would be in pretty poor form for me to not be a big supporter of tech and computers because that is how I do my work and how I got involved. The advancement and the affordability of tech gear has made a level playing field where you can now have access to ideas reasonably and then it just comes down to extracting those ideas, which is great.
Meditation should be the foremost technology of the 21st century; the technology of reprogramming the non-spatial universal computer.
Fertilizer played a greater role in this case than computers.
You know, in college, I never got either degree, but I was a double-major in Computer Science and English. And English at Berkeley, where I went to school, is very much creatively-driven. Basically, the entire bachelor's degree in English is all about bullshitting. And Computer Science, which was my other major, was exactly the opposite of that. You had to know what you were doing, and you had to know what you were talking about.
Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.
Why I am NOT going to buy a computer
We imagine "pure" cybernetic systems, but we can prove only that we know how to build fairly dysfunctional ones. We kid ourselves when we think we understand something, even a computer, merely because we can model or digitize it.
And then computers got to a point where you could just record directly into them. So when that happened, funny enough, I thought, Right, I'm going to learn how to do this because then I can understand that part.
Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.
Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer.
Without computers we will be stuck only proving theorems that have short proofs.
Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers.
When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.
Software Engineering is that part of Computer Science which is too difficult for the Computer Scientist.
I grew up watching movies on television and computer screens. They affected me just as powerfully in the small private space.
Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.
I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is.
Lish tried to swear--which is always funny, because the computer won't translate it. It went something like this: "Bleep stupid bleep bleep faeries and their bleep bleep bleep obsessions. He had better stop bleep bleep bleep the bleep bleep rules or I will bleep bleep bleep the little bleeeeeeeeeeep.
I don't even have my own computer.
In a world without fences, who needs Gates?