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The story of computing is the story of humanity: this is a story of ambition, invention, creativity, vision, avarice, and serendipity, powered by a refusal to accept the limits of our bodies and our minds. Computing: The Human Experience is a transmedia project that explores the science of computing, examines the connections among computing, individuals, and society, and contemplates the future, taking us on a journey of what it means to be human in the face of a technology that can amplify us, diminish us, and perhaps even replace us.

It is possible that we are rare, fleeting specks of awareness in an unfeeling cosmic desert, the only witnesses to its wonder. It is also possible that we are living in a universal sea of sentience, surrounded by ecstasy and strife that is open to our influence. Sensible beings that we are, both possibilities should worry us.
Timo Hannay
The brain does much more than recollect. It compares, synthesizes, analyzes, generates abstractions.
Carl Sagan
Computers are to computing as instruments are to music. Software is the score whose interpretation amplifies our reach and lifts our spirit. Lenoardo da Vinci called music “the shaping of the invisible” and this phrase is even more apt as a description of software.
Alan Kay
The newest computer can merely compound at speed the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem of what to say and how to say it.
Edward Murrow
The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
Richard Hamming
Computing has given us access to the totality of human knowledge. Yet, we still hunger for understanding and wisdom.
Grady Booch
We are evolving from being cultivators of personal knowledge to being hunters and gatherers in the electronic data forest.
Nicholas Carr
A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.
Herbert Simon
The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
Alan Kay
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Picasso
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Grady Booch

Grady Booch is Chief Scientist for Software Engineering at IBM where he leads IBM’s research and development for embodied cognition. Having originated the term and the practice of object-oriented design, he is best known for his work in advancing the fields of software engineering and software architecture. A co-author of the Unified Modeling Language, a founding member of the Agile Alliance, and a founding member of the Hillside Group, Grady has published six books and several hundred technical articles, including an ongoing column for IEEE Software. Grady was also a trustee for the Computer History Museum. He is an IBM Fellow, an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow, has been awarded the Lovelace Medal and has given the Turing Lecture for the BCS, and was recently named an IEEE Computer Pioneer.