Computers Quotes

This sort of information gathering is precisely what we call play. And the important function of pla...

When all is said and done, the invention of writing must be reckoned not only as a brilliant innovat...

Dartmouth College employs computer learning techniques in a very broad array of courses. For example...

now it’s computers and more computersand soon everybody will have one,3-year-olds will have computer...

Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb...

Helpfiles are traditionally outnumbered by no-help files, which superficially resemble a helpfile in...

What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of li...

Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuc...

I wonder who had the first computer dream, where, and when? I wonder if computers ever dream of huma...

I hate computers. My hatred is entrenched, and I nourish it daily. I’m comfortable with it, and no c...

I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tel...

Forty-two!" yelled Loonquawl. "Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' wo...

The Googleplex Star Thinker is a super-computer from the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity and h...

I started on computers with 'Billy Bathgate,' a little orange screen with black letters. I thought i...

The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the p...

By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they un...

The human mind isn’t a computer; it cannot progress in an orderly fashion down a list of candidate m...

The computer focuses ruthlessly on things that can be represented in numbers. In so doing, it seduce...

The new world will be a place of answers and no questions, because the only questions left will be a...

Once upon a time the world was a realm of unanswered questions and there was room in it for poetry. ...

The new world will be a place of answers and no questions, because the only questions left will be a...

Once upon a time the world was a realm of unanswered questions and there was room in it for poetry. ...

The new world will be a place of answers and no questions, because the only questions left will be a...

Once upon a time the world was a realm of unanswered questions and there was room in it for poetry. ...

The new world will be a place of answers and no questions, because the only questions left will be a...

Once upon a time the world was a realm of unanswered questions and there was room in it for poetry. ...

The intentions of the cybernetic totalist tribe are good. They are simply following a path that was ...

But the Turing test cuts both ways. You can't tell if a machine has gotten smarter or if you've just...

This digital revolutionary still believes in most of the lovely deep ideals that energized our work ...

Turing presented his new offering in the form of a thought experiment, based on a popular Victorian ...

Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.

Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ...

The attribution of intelligence to machines, crowds of fragments, or other nerd deities obscures mor...

Information wants to be free.' So goes the saying. Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Cat...

People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time.

A file on a hard disk does indeed contain information of the kind that objectively exists. The fact ...

Opponents past and present have the same essential weakness about them: first they want to use you, ...

The computer may be incompetent in itself--that is, unable to do the work for which it was designed....

... we have created a man with not one brain but two. ... This new brain is intended to control the ...

Unix is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subcultur...

Most of Csongor's time in T'Rain had been spent blundering about in a state of hapless newbie confus...

We conquer the Independence Day aliens by having a Macintosh laptop computer upload a software virus...

Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any la...

It is the thesis of this book that society can only be understood through a study of the messages an...

I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on ...

Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.

Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized ni...

It's hard to get motivated fixing a compile-time syntax error when you can buy a powder that turns a...

I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that ...

All of a sudden, we’ve lost a lot of control,’ he said. ‘We can’t turn off our internet; we can’t tu...

Amazin'.' he said again. 'He just looks as though he's thinking, right?''Er...yes.''But he's not act...

If patterns of ones and zeroes were "like" patterns of human lives and deaths, if everything about a...

It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.

Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a...

Asked about the fact that Apple's iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs ...

I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a c...

Let us return for a moment to Lady Lovelace’s objection, which stated that the machine can only do w...

Let us return for a moment to Lady Lovelace’s objection, which stated that the machine can only do w...

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever cre...