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We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal.

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.

If you take a regular animated film, that's being done by animators on computers, so the filmmaking is a fairly technical process.

I've always been into computers. When I was getting out of high school and forming my identity musically, all of it was really coming into the fold, computers and drum machines. It felt like, you know, I'm in the right place at the right time. I liked the collision.

By 2020, most home computers will have the computing power of a human brain. That doesn't mean that they are brains, but it means that in terms of raw processing, they can process bits as fast as a brain can. So the question is, how far behind that is the development of a machine that's as smart as we are?

Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy about how we tell computers to do things.

I've never really been very interested in computers themselves. I don't watch them; I watch how people behave around them. That's becoming more difficult to do because everything is around them.

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.

When I first started making ambient music, I was setting up systems using synthesizers that generated pulses more or less randomly. The end result is a kind of music that continuously changes. Of course, until computers came along, all I could actually present of that work was a piece of its output.

If I wasn't a professional scientist, I'd be an amateur scientist. But plan B was to go into computers.

Our computers have become windows through which we can gaze upon a world that is virtually without horizons or boundaries.

I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.

I started with CB radio, ham radio, and eventually went into computers. And I was just fascinated with it. And back then, when I was in school, computer hacking was encouraged. It was an encouraged activity. In fact, I remember one of the projects my teacher gave me was writing a log-in simulator.

When I helped to develop the open standards that computers use to communicate with one another across the Net, I hoped for but could not predict how it would blossom and how much human ingenuity it would unleash.

Given the volume of PC sales and the way McAfee runs its operation, I imagine there must be thousands of phantom subscribers - folks who signed up once upon a time and left the software behind two or three computers ago.

Economics pretends to be a science. Its practitioners fill blackboards with equations and clog computers with data. But it is really a faith, or more accurately a set of overlapping and squabbling faiths, each with its own doctrines.

Our computers double in capability on time scales of only a few years. It's hardly outrageous to believe that we will successfully develop thinking machines within a handful of decades, or at most a century or two. If that happens, these artificial sentients will quickly leave us behind.

If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.

Music fans deserve to know whether EMI's copy-restricted CDs are exposing their computers to security risks. When it comes to computer security, it pays to have as many independent experts kick the tires as possible, and that can only happen if EMI assures those experts that they won't be sued for their trouble.

Music fans shouldn't have to install potentially dangerous, privacy intrusive software on their computers just to listen to the music they've legitimately purchased.

One of the problems with portable computers is that they are not always on your network. This lets the administrator install the software without having to worry about which systems have it installed and which don't.

One of the biggest challenges was the deployment. For the winter games, we have to deploy IT systems in the mountains. It's freezing, and computers don't really like cold or humidity. But you're basically surrounded by snow.

Near as we can tell, there's no sensitive or confidential sort of information contained on the computers that were stolen. They're your typical office computer for e-mails and the like.

Ninety-five percent of our children live in poverty, ... It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that they probably don't have computers at home. Most of our children do not have any computer access except at school so they are behind the learning curve of other children.

If we go down and have no phones, no computers and no cell phones, we are still going to be able to communicate,

I would rather have racing without computers. The human side is forgotten, and instead of talking over what's happening and just trusting the feel of the driver, the data becomes almost more important.

When I left Apple, it had $2 billion of cash. It was the most profitable computer company in the world - not just personal computers - and Apple was the number one selling computer.

When I grew up, there were no computers that anyone used, except for the big scientists. There was no internet, there were no VCRs.

When I grew up we had gym at school, two or three dance classes after school, ice skating lessons, and all sorts of sports at our finger tips. We weren't glued to computers because they didn't exist, so being active was all we knew.

One of my sons - James - just had his computer crash and it's a mess. He's an aerospace engineer. But the church library and cataloguing is all being updated to computers by the woman who is our new librarian, Jani Wagner, so I won't worry.

One of the amazing aspects of the library is just the sheer numbers of computers that are available to the public.

One of the big first computers was called SAGE, which was a missile defense, the first missile-defense computer, which was, like, one of the first computers in the history of the world which got sold to the Department of Defense for, I don't know, tens and tens of millions of dollars at the time.

One of the things that is not so good is that a decision was made long ago about the size of an IP address - 32 bits. At the time it was a number much larger than anyone could imagine ever having that many computers but it turned out to be to small.

My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers. I only started the company when I realized I could be an engineer forever.

Men and machines are good at different things. People form plans and make decisions in complicated situations. We are less good at making sense of enormous amounts of data. Computers are exactly the opposite: they excel at efficient data processing but struggle to make basic judgments that would be simple for any human.

No one has had the capability of getting into computers to find out the extent before. (We'll find) hundreds if not thousands of victims in waiting who don't even know their names have been compromised.

Of course it's the government. Governments will pay anything for control of other governments' computers. All governments will pay anything. It's so much better than tapping a phone.

My dad used to work at IBM, so we used to get discounts on computers and stuff, and I did have a ThinkPad.

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.

My first encounter with computers was in 1968 as a Freshman engineering student at the University of Michigan, taking a required Fortran IV class.

On job portals, there are more Employers than Seekers, in real world it is reverse..

Plus, it always bugged me to see how my dad became unable to use the phone when the computers started taking over. So part of my motivation for this fight is in his name.

Nobody wants to read a book to learn how to type a letter on the computer. Before you know it, material on computers is out of date, and there's so much material online (that people can access).

Obtaining a guilty plea is a positive step in combating a growing problem -- hijacking thousands of computers for personal gain. The case validates what we have seen as the criminalization of the Windows platform, and it is especially dangerous because the exploit was used for a profit motive.

Obviously, Halloween is our busiest time of year. It's normally when we do our biggest volume of business. But once the storm hit we lost power. We used generators at our warehouse to run four FedEx computers to prepare shipments. We paid to upgrade all of our orders to Next Day FedEx delivery to get costumes to people in time for Halloween.

People will be able to work (on their computers) anywhere downtown.

Right now computing can be hard. Machine language is somewhat inaccessible. And Basic is not quite so bad, but it still blows some people away.

Network computers and set-top boxes will make a lot of noise. But for the most part, the market is still putting its feelers out.

I got into computers back in the early '80s, so it was a natural progression of learning about e-mail in the mid-'80s and getting into the Internet when it opened up in the early '90s.

I didn't want a period piece because embroidering is definitely not an art of the past, at least not yet. I suppose the story could be set anywhere between the 1960s and the present . . . but I did want to make sure no one used cell phones or worked on computers because that would ruin the sensual atmosphere.

There are many different pieces of this giant puzzle that need to come together. The pieces that must come together include installation of ticket terminals, training retailers, testing software applications and so much more. There are many people working very hard behind the scenes in such areas as administration, finance, sales and computers to help raise money for education and make this historical event happen. In addition, numerous state agencies are providing assistance to us, as necessary.

Since I've been building quantum computers I've come around to thinking about the world in terms of how it processes information.

Meanwhile, we've got schools that are failing. Those computers are not going to help those children. Not one bit.

Millions of nerdy kids who grew up in the 1980s could only find the components they needed at local Radio Shacks, and the stores were like a lifeline to a better world where everybody understood computers.

Mobile computing is moving from the fringe to the mainstream. Portable computers are becoming the primary PC.

Mobile-phone marketing today is where Internet advertising was in 1996 -- it's about to take off. There are already more mobile phones in use worldwide than televisions and computers put together.

Most people around the world will experience new information technologies through their mobile-phone browsers. Computers are still priced out of reach for most people.

Most people think computers when they think technology. We fight that all the time and what people perceive technology to be. Technology is a process of altering the natural world to satisfy human wants and needs.

Most people don't realize that common sense is the real thing computers are missing,

Machines have the power to become the ultimate interactive art-making tool. Computers are becoming postmodern blenders bringing together images, sound, and interactive, nonlinear space.

Semiconductors are doing well and those chips are going into Dell computers.

Old Iron' is the mechanical system that farmers have used for decades. But agriculture Tuesday relies heavily on computer technology. Computers on tractors make them more productive, more efficient. Now we have a new challenge. Is it possible to make them more intelligent?

The primary thrust of the research has been with cars. But the (fuel cell) technology can also be used in remote power systems and future uses for cell phones, computers and other batteries.

We won't always make it in five years but that's the goal. Computers will last more than five years. Some are now 8 to 10 years old and we actually wish they would die.

When they were done downloading all the information off each hard drive, they took all the computers, all the literature, and loaded everything into a big white truck and left.

I hate the thought of my children being glued to a screen. Children only play on computers all day because their parents let them.

Kids have access to computers in so many places. You can't police it anymore. You have to communicate with children and children have to be able to communicate with their parents.

Kids want to have the latest in technology, just like adults. Kids have grown up with computers. They are not afraid of technology, they embrace it.

has literally, we believe, avoided the spread of this very malicious virus to personal computers throughout ... the world.

He lives a lot in his head, like a lot of us live in our little condos with our computers. We interact less and less with other humans and don't use our imaginations as much. This character's head is a big hot-air balloon, and he flies away to find the balance between (living in) the real world and being able to keep his creativity and childlike heart.

I can live without endless television programmes and films just centered around computers. I can sort of live without that.

I am especially excited about giving computers common sense. Computers should be able to understand the emotions of humans. As computers begin to understand the human world, they can help us far more efficiently.

If you are going to need more computers in a school, you need to know that before you start renovating so you can provide the electrical hookups necessary.

For too long, unscrupulous companies have made millions of dollars infecting our computers with malicious software. This is so dangerous because there are intruders in your house, but you don't know that they are in there or how they got there.

I give Bill Gates an A for vision because, as a business person and a strategist, he's brilliant. His flaw is that his view is not informed by a humanistic or compassionate vision of how to make computers work for people.

But it was kind of fun to have a company, and that was good enough reason to do it. And step by step, boy, it was right timing. Computers were exploding and we were in it exactly at the right time.

But what if our Internet was down? What if we lost our building and had to set up in a school gymnasium? We could get computers, but we couldn't get computers with the configuration settings we need in a timely manner. And if we can't set up our medical records data, we can't see patients, which means we're in trouble, especially in a disaster scenario.

Carders typically buy high-value goods like computers and jewelry so they can resell them,

But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out.

I don't know why people aren't using the library frequently. Maybe it's the pull of the new bookstores, maybe it's something else. I'm not sure, but I do know we have computers here -- six for public use in this facility and 14 system-wide -- and our books are free. If you or your child reads a lot, the library is the place to visit.

Basically, they'll be going from their computers to their seats. It will cut down on ticket will-call lines and better accommodate last-minute ticket purchasers.

To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer.

We are exploring moving beyond silicon-based chips to significantly boost the performance of PCs. Silicon chips will continue to improve, but we need to look ahead decades into the future.

Having watched their children grow up with a keyboard at their fingertips, parents know that their kids will inevitably turn to their computers for entertainment. And parents also know that downloading music is easy, prevalent and often illegal. These days, colleges and universities can offer alternatives that are just as easy and available, but more importantly to parents, legal.

Hackers are in a race against time to infect as many computers as possible through the WMF security hole before companies have a chance to put the patch in place. Everyone should apply the patch as soon as possible, and defend their networks with up-to-date anti-virus and anti-spam software.

Hackers don't want to damage computers any more, they want to own them. They've started to run direct attacks where just one business, or even just one computer, is infected.

What we have here are clean computers ... They are not purchased because they can make a phone call.

He's a computer geek, ... I think he knew more about MacIntosh computers than the state's witness did. I'm not sure how much the jury caught, but he seemed to be pretty pleased.

When humans team up with computers to play chess, the humans who do best are not necessarily the strongest players. They're the ones who are modest and who know when to listen to the computer. Often, what the human adds is knowledge of when the computer needs to look more deeply.

We talked earlier this year with some sponsors who were thinking about providing all of our suites with computers -- laptops or something small -- to give people the ability to access stats and whatever else they might want to do while they're here.

If something happens, it's going to be sociological rather than technological. We won't see Y2K problems because of computers. It's just not going to happen.

He's a very detail-oriented guy. For this job, he's got a great combination of old-school work ethic - knowing how to put the time in - and the new generation that uses computers and video to get as much information as possible.

What Microsoft is doing is patently illegal. Think about it. If you want to build computers, you've got to ask Bill's permission, ... If Bill wanted to triple the price on Windows, what would you do? You'd pay; you wouldn't have any choice.

Whatever they do, criminals and non-criminals act in particular ways. Some writers, for instance, use computers, others pen and paper. Some write in the morning, some at night. Each writer has a distinct style, with variations in grammar, sentence structure, and voice.

My personal feeling is if the complexity becomes difficult for me, I frequently will pass off part of my decision to some trusted adviser or rely on an expert recommendation, ... My husband is more into this than I am. When the decision gets into making trade-offs, I want to make the decision but I may not want to spend the time (learning about the product enhancements). When we were buying PCs in the beginning in the 1980s, it was the same situation: People wanted computers but didn't know what to buy. Everybody in the neighborhood would go to the person who was the expert.

My sergeant said, 'What are you ever going to need computers for in police work?' I should mention that he retired very shortly after that.

My three-year-old uses the computer more proficiently than he can speak, ... Computers are going to get smarter.

I was writing my Ph.D. in the late 1980s and was keeping an eye on what was happening in the world. It became obvious to me that Russia couldn't live without computers. I think I worked this out a year before anyone else. I started looking for people who could help import them.

Like medieval peasants, computer manufacturers and millions of users are locked in a seemingly eternal lease with their evil landlord, who comes around every two years to collect billions of dollars of taxes in return for mediocre services

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.