With nine degrees of warming computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish. Water supply to the Murray-Darling Basin will fall by half severely curtailing food production.
People don't want to talk about death just like they don't want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.
If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.
My background was computer science and business school so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development testing marketing user education.
There were IBM logos designed for the film and there were IBM design consultants working with Kubrick on the layout of the controls and computer screens.
My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn't change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures.
IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film.
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.
It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.
The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design but what's missing is the eyebrows.
Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.
People spend hours constantly checking and tweeting and Facebooking. And it's cool to check up on your friends and see what's going on in the world but it's not cool to spend five hours of your day on the computer looking at the Internet.
In early high school years I was pretty chubby and I spent a lot of time on my computer before it was cool to have a computer - because there was a time that was true. So that's where I developed my personality.
I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer if the paper clip popped up and said 'Looks like you're writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful language you'll get more money.'
Today computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.
The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.
There's my education in computers right there this is the whole thing everything I took out of a book.
I actually use a computer a lot. I have three computers that I use on a regular basis - one is on my desk top in my Washington office another is at home and I have my laptop that I use when I'm travelling.
Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.
There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.
When the first computers started to come in we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment.
There were no PCs when I started programming on computers.
So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature.
My problem is that I like technology but I always have to ask myself 'Now wait a minute will I actually have any use for this?'