Masayoshi Son Quotes

Information technology departments must spend enormous amounts of time and money worrying about integrating big computer systems with billions of pieces of customer data.

People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.

The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.

To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality.

Even though most people won't be directly involved with programming, everyone is affected by computers, so an educated person should have a good understanding of how computer hardware, software, and networks operate.

I first got interested in the brain through computers.

My colleagues and I were engineers who worked for DCM's calculator division. These electronic calculators used digital integrated circuits, and then they started using chips. The advanced versions of those chips were used for programmable calculators, which were the forerunners of PCs.

The brain can process two million bits of information per second. It remembers everything you've ever seen, everything you've ever heard.

My memory is coming back. It is curious how it comes. Each day, a rush of pieces, loosely connected, unimportant bits, snake through me. They click, click, click into my brain, like links being snapped together. And then they are done. A small chain of memories that fill in one tiny part of my life. They come out of nowhere, and most are not important.

The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything. To be sure, it is hidden away in bone and conducts internal affairs in secrecy, but virtually all the business is the direct result of thinking that has already occurred in other minds.

[Women] tend to collect more pieces of data when they think, put them into more complex patterns, see more options and outcomes. They tend to be contextual, holistic thinkers.

You simply cannot understand psychedelic drugs, which activate the brain, unless you understand something about computers.

To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.

It turns out your conscious mind - the part you think of as you - is really the smallest part of what’s happening in your brain, and usually the last one in line to find out any information.

The outsourcing of our memory to machines expands the amount of data to which we have access, but degrades our brain’s own ability to remember things.

The Holy Grail of neuroscience has been to understand how and where information is encoded in the brain.

Memory, the warder of the brain.

Some may be helped by images, some may not. Some require an image outside, others one inside the brain.

It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.

The human brain has left and right brain symmetry with its own nature and can process information which initially appears to have no pattern or order. However, the brain has the ability to process visual information much more efficiently.

The brain can be seen as a complex machine, like a gooey computer.

Brains are like representative democracies. They are built of multiple, overlapping experts who weigh in and compete over different choices.

We learn best with focused attention. As we focus on what we're learning, the brain maps that information on what we already know making new neural connections

I've always been obsessed with electronics and using computers and software. It's always been part of my vernacular.