John C. Dvorak

Person · Open Library

Works

17

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1952-04-05

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John Charles Dvorak (born 1952 in Los Angeles, California) is an American columnist and broadcaster in the areas of technology and computing. His writing extends back to the 1980s, when he was a mainstay of a variety of magazines. Dvorak is also the Vice-President of Mevio (formerly PodShow) and well known for his work for Tech TV. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/John+C.+Dvorak">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

   · 1996 · cited 204,615x

2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 43,656x

3. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

   · 2000 · cited 36,917x

4. Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

   · 2007 · cited 35,587x

5. The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)

   · 1992 · cited 29,134x

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Quotes

• “The nature of the personal computer is simply not fully understood by companies like Apple (or anyone else for that matter). Apple makes the arrogant assumption of thinking that it knows what you want and need. It, unfortunately, leaves the “why” out of the equation — as in “why would I want this?” The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a “mouse”. There is no evidence that people want to use these things.”
• “The Noisiest buzz in the industry lately has been over the emerging use of cable TV systems to provide fast network data transmissions using a device called a cable modem. But the likelihood of this technology succeeding is zilch.”
• “When I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, I see that the System Idle Process is hogging all the resources and chewing up 95 percent of the processor's cycles. Doing what? Doing nothing?”
• “People are always looking for the be-all-end-all super perfect Linux. It will never happen until Microsoft does Linux. Oops. Did I say that?”
• “The absolute deterioration of the wiki concept is just a matter of time. Once spam mechanisms are developed to eat into these systems, the caretakers will be too busy to stop the public-driven deterioration.”
• “There was always something about Creative Commons and its name that bugged me, too. The name sounds like a variation of the once-powerful Common Cause political-action committee. A ring of days gone by — nostalgia. All I see here is making the very easy and simple U.S. copyright laws more complex for no apparent reason, except maybe as a protest.”

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