When I read a book, there are phrases I want to remember, words I want to look up and places it takes me. So I've decided to start recording these things here. There are 3 books in the wings that need recording. Here's the first:
THE INNOVATORS: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, by Walter Isaacson
Wordsworth (re: the French Revolution): "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive."
"Then I read something that one of my heroes, Edwin Land of Polaroid, said about the importance of people who could stand at the intersection of humanities and sciences, and I decided that's what I wanted to do." Steve Jobs
"She realized that math was a lovely language, one that describes the harmonics of the universe and can be poetic at times" re: Ada Lovelace; math "constitutes the language through which alone we can adequately express the great facts of the natural world" it allows us to portray the "changes of mutual relationship" that unfold in creation.
Claude Shannon "who [in 1937] turned in the most influential master's thesis of all time, a paper that Scientific America later dubbed 'the Magna Carta of the Information Age' " (a short video of Shannon & his machines juggling)
"War mobilizes science. Many of the paramount technological feats of that era - computers, atomic power, radar and the Internet - were spawned by the military."
"silicon - after oxygen the most common element in the earth's crust and a key component of sand"
madrigal: a secular vocal music composition, usually a partsong, of the Renaissance and early Baroque eras. Traditionally, polyphonic (2 or more simultaneous lines of independent melody) madrigals are unaccompanied; the number of voices varies from two to eight, and most frequently from three to six
"...one of the most influential papers in the history of postwar technology, titled 'Man-Computer Symbiosis' " by J. C. R. Licklider (1960); he also wrote 'The Computer as a Communication Device'
oral history: the collection and study of historical information about individuals, families, important events, or everyday life using audiotapes, videotapes, or transcriptions of planned interviews
Buckminster Fuller's 'Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth'
" 'To my mind,' Bill Gates would later declare, 'the Altair is the first thing that deserves to be called a personal computer.' " Steve Dompier's Altair playing "Fool on the Hill"
the WELL (Steward Brand & Larry Brilliant) "Let's just have a conversation and get the smartest people in the world and let them figure out whatever they want to talk about." SB
Enquire Within Upon Everything, a Victorian-era almanac & advice book = Whole Earth Catalog launched by Steward Brand
"The design of the Internet and the Web is a search for a set of rules which will allow computers to work together in harmony, and our spiritual and social quest is for a set of rules which allow people to work together in harmony." Internet Engineering Task Force
Wikipedia: "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing."
memoirs of the physicist Richard Feynman: "who touted the power that comes from joining art to science the way that Leonardo da Vinci did"
Douglas Hofstadter "combined the arts and sciences in his 1979 best seller, Godel, Escher, Bach"
"Human creativity involves values, intentions, aestheic judgments, emotions, personal consciousness, and a moral sense. These are what the arts and humanities teach us - and why those realms are as valuable a part of education as science, technologh, engineering, and math. If we mortals are to uphold our end of the human-computer symbiosis, if we are to retain a role as the creative partners of our machines, we must continue to nurture the wellsprings of our imagination and originality and humanity. That is what we bring to the party."
"Kathy Kleinman helped bring recognition to the women programmers after first meeting them when researching her Harvard undergraduate thesis on women in computing in 1986, and she coproduced a twenty-minute documentary called The Computers, which premiered in 2014."
THE INNOVATORS: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, by Walter Isaacson
Wordsworth (re: the French Revolution): "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive."
"Then I read something that one of my heroes, Edwin Land of Polaroid, said about the importance of people who could stand at the intersection of humanities and sciences, and I decided that's what I wanted to do." Steve Jobs
"She realized that math was a lovely language, one that describes the harmonics of the universe and can be poetic at times" re: Ada Lovelace; math "constitutes the language through which alone we can adequately express the great facts of the natural world" it allows us to portray the "changes of mutual relationship" that unfold in creation.
Claude Shannon "who [in 1937] turned in the most influential master's thesis of all time, a paper that Scientific America later dubbed 'the Magna Carta of the Information Age' " (a short video of Shannon & his machines juggling)
"War mobilizes science. Many of the paramount technological feats of that era - computers, atomic power, radar and the Internet - were spawned by the military."
"silicon - after oxygen the most common element in the earth's crust and a key component of sand"
madrigal: a secular vocal music composition, usually a partsong, of the Renaissance and early Baroque eras. Traditionally, polyphonic (2 or more simultaneous lines of independent melody) madrigals are unaccompanied; the number of voices varies from two to eight, and most frequently from three to six
"...one of the most influential papers in the history of postwar technology, titled 'Man-Computer Symbiosis' " by J. C. R. Licklider (1960); he also wrote 'The Computer as a Communication Device'
oral history: the collection and study of historical information about individuals, families, important events, or everyday life using audiotapes, videotapes, or transcriptions of planned interviews
Buckminster Fuller's 'Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth'
" 'To my mind,' Bill Gates would later declare, 'the Altair is the first thing that deserves to be called a personal computer.' " Steve Dompier's Altair playing "Fool on the Hill"
the WELL (Steward Brand & Larry Brilliant) "Let's just have a conversation and get the smartest people in the world and let them figure out whatever they want to talk about." SB
Enquire Within Upon Everything, a Victorian-era almanac & advice book = Whole Earth Catalog launched by Steward Brand
"The design of the Internet and the Web is a search for a set of rules which will allow computers to work together in harmony, and our spiritual and social quest is for a set of rules which allow people to work together in harmony." Internet Engineering Task Force
Wikipedia: "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing."
memoirs of the physicist Richard Feynman: "who touted the power that comes from joining art to science the way that Leonardo da Vinci did"
Douglas Hofstadter "combined the arts and sciences in his 1979 best seller, Godel, Escher, Bach"
"Human creativity involves values, intentions, aestheic judgments, emotions, personal consciousness, and a moral sense. These are what the arts and humanities teach us - and why those realms are as valuable a part of education as science, technologh, engineering, and math. If we mortals are to uphold our end of the human-computer symbiosis, if we are to retain a role as the creative partners of our machines, we must continue to nurture the wellsprings of our imagination and originality and humanity. That is what we bring to the party."
"Kathy Kleinman helped bring recognition to the women programmers after first meeting them when researching her Harvard undergraduate thesis on women in computing in 1986, and she coproduced a twenty-minute documentary called The Computers, which premiered in 2014."
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