I work on OpenBSD fulltime, as the project leader. I set some directions, increase communication between the developers, and try to be involved in nearly every aspect of the base system.
My approach is so simple every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears, or inspiration. Otherwise, why do it? It's the communication.
I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides. In this case it certainly wasn't.
Mental communication without verbalization... all space is made up of waves and we are constantly sending and receiving messages from our brain.
The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication.
Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.
Communication is very important. And the arts do that, whether it's film or theater.
To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality.
If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication.
Tim and Fritz Lang I loved working with. Not Hitchcock so much. There was no communication.
It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.
Art must unquestionably have a social value that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.
In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.
Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.
Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.
A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.
Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.
I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.
The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'.
It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.
Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.
It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software.
In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.
Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.