Quotes About Technology

Thanks to the Internet I had my identity stolen a few months ago, and my credit actually improved. I'm dating now, have a new car. Life is good.

My free time at home is usually spent emailing, listening to music, reading and talking on the phone. I wish I was on the phone less, but I have been fortunate to stay in touch with so many incredible friends.

All this technology has not changed the way NFL Films does business and our process. Yes, with one touch of a button now you reach millions of people but it is still the same approach that my father and I started out with.

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After a short discussion, the conclusion is to dust off the old SHUTDOWN_DAMMIT command that we used to use when things went to hell back during thermal vac. SHUTDOWN_DAMMIT should shut things down cold and should prevent any comm windows from opening up until the commanded wake-up time, which won't be until tomorrow morning.

Worst of all was the flight software that handled data on board the rover, writing to and reading from the "flash" memory that was our equivalent of a computer's hard drive. The read and write commands too often just didn't work. The command we seemed to use the most was the one the Flight Software team called "SHUTDOWN_DAMMIT", which was like hitting CTRL-ALT-DEL on a personal computer, killing everything off and starting over.

Over the course of ATLO, we had powered up the transponders that we use in each rover to transmit data to Earth about six hundred times. All but two of those times they had worked. But on each rover, just once, the transponder had refused to send any data when it came up. The two times this had happened, the ATLO guys had done what anybody does when their expensive high-tech hardware doesn't work: They turned it off and turned it back on again.

So as near as I could tell the end of the world began roughly about the time that Billy Carver's butt rang about halfway through the War of 1812.

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Atari is a very sad story.

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

It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.

My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.

What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.

If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny.

At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.

All of a sudden, we've lost a lot of control,' he said. 'We can't turn off our internet; we can't turn off our smartphones; we can't turn off our computers. You used to ask a smart person a question. Now, who do you ask? It starts with g-o, and it's not God…

when you don't have the hardware resources, you have to take advantage of what you have inside the chip

I acquired a central ability that was to help me through my entire career: patience. I'm serious. Patience is usually so underrated. I mean, for all these projects, from third grade all the way to eighth grade, I just learned things gradually, figuring out how to put electronic devices together without so much as cracking a book ... I learned to not worry so much about the outcome, but to concentrate on the step I was on and to try to do it as perfectly as I could when I was doing it.

He took the time—a lot of time—to show me those few little things. They were little things to him, even though Fairchild and Texas Instruments had just developed the transistor only a decade earlier.