I always have traveled with a camera throughout my life, but I always had my old 35mm film camera. When I was training to go into space, the only equipment there was a digital camera. I went through a fast-track class on Earth. It actually was fun, though I'm basically a dinosaur with computers.
I am such a gearhead. In my recording studio, I personally engineer and edit everything on computers.
More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work.
Computer science is one of the worst things that ever happened to either computers or to science.
Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.