"If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else."
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"If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else."
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
"You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself."
"Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care."
"You can't trust the internet."
"You can't have thousands of cars without good computers on the electric grid."
"Calculating does not equal mathematics. It's a subsection of it. In years gone by it was the limiting factor, but computers now allow you to make the whole of mathematics more intellectual."
"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."
"Doing a movie about computers between 1978 and 1982? You can't get much less sexy, less active than that."
"I'm going to get myself one of those, um, movable computers - what do you call them... ? Laptops! I am bad. I still call my radio a wireless."
"The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers."
"Before computers, you'd start designing using shapes of cubes. Now I can start with something like a handkerchief, an object that doesn't have strong inside and outside boundaries or much closed volume."
"You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s."
"Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy."
"You can model experiments on computers now and then execute them, and you don't actually need a fully stocked lab."
"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."
"Computers were never designed in the first place to become musical instruments. Within a computer, everything is sterile - there's no sound, there's no air. It's totally code. Like with computer-generated effects in movies, you can create wonders. But it's really hard to create emotion."
"When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out."
"There is a difference between the stuff that people put online themselves, like pictures and their trips and flights and meals they've eaten, than the stuff that they don't realize is also going into foreign computers. Like, for example, copies of your emails or every single online search you ever do, 'cause all that is being recorded as well."
"If you write a blog post, you've got something to say; you're not just creating words and synonyms. We'd like the computers to actually pick up on that semantic meaning."
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