Pastoral Resources

Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources; many of them have computers at home, for instance, or their friends have them.

The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything.

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

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

I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.

I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it.

Well, we didn't have our original drummer on our last record. And most of that album was not played as a band in the studio. It was mostly the world of computers and overdubs. There was very few things played live or worked out as a band.

Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people's privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information.

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.

Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s.

Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me.

The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it.

Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.

I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.

We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now.

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.

Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same.

It is an interesting fact that during my tour I was never allowed access to computers, radios, or anything else that I might damage through curiosity, or perhaps something more sinister.