computers

Long before they fit comfortably in our palms or hummed quietly on our desks, these machines sparked a profound curiosity about the boundaries of human ingenuity. The wisdom collected in this category captures our complex entanglement with digital technology, ranging from witty skepticism about automated intelligence to visionary prophecies about a hyper-connected tomorrow. Whether pondering the subtle ironies of silicon memory or examining how binary logic reshapes human philosophy, these reflections reveal just as much about our biological quirks as they do about machine processing. Dive into these perspectives to explore how humanity continues to navigate the ever-evolving frontier of code, circuits, and computation.

computers

Top Authors in computers

Steve Wozniak

Bill Budge

Adam Osborne

Stephen Hawking

Nicholas Negroponte

Kevin Mitnick

Seth Lloyd

Peter Drucker

Featured Quotes

All computers Quotes

"Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us."

"A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you."

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."

"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers."

"The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing."

"A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing."

"Computers are like Old Testament gods lots of rules and no mercy."

"I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user."

"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done."

"Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back."

"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."

"Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility."

"The computer is a moron."

"Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months."

"To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so."

"I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer."

"No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'."

"I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type."

"It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow."

"Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village."

"It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies."

"Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living."

"Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software."

"In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever."

"Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions."

"People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster."

"I wouldn't know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it."

"Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984."

"We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software."

"Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software."

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