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

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All computers Quotes

"I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago."

"The power of the computer is starting to spread."

"One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'"

"If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently."

"In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'."

"Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today."

"What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself."

"You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s."

"If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint."

"Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself."

"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."

"Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders."

"The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do."

"We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable."

"If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan."

"I just became one with my browser software."

"Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s."

"When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause."

"Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining."

"I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer."

"The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games."

"Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent."

"Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water."

"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home."

"To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer."

"Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!"

"I got up with my wife, I sat down at the computer when she went to work, and I didn't stop until she got home."

"The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language."

"Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build."

"I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing you're screwed'."

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