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Computers Quotations Click There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.Almes, Guy Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honestAsimov, Isaac The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.Avishai, Bernard On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.Babbage, Charles And computers are getting smarter all the time: scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (By "they" I mean "computers": I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)Barry, Dave If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee - that will do them inBromide, Bradley's The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.Brown, Andrew Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.Cochrane, Peter If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone insideCringely, Robert If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and none dare criticize it.Gallois, Pierre Marie The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavierGates, William (Bill) H That is one of the Laws of Usenet, up there with 'You can tell when a Usenet discussion is getting old when someone drags out Hitler and the Nazis.'Goldfarb, David The perfect computer has been developed. You just feed in your problems and they never come out again.Goodman, Al The real danger is not that computers will think like men, but that men will think like computersHarris, Sidney J Information Superhighway is really an acronym for 'Interactive Network For Organizing, Retrieving, Manipulating, Accessing And Transferring Information On National Systems, Unleashing Practically Every Rebellious Human Intelligence, Gratifying Hackers, Wiseacres, And Yahoos'Kwaku, Keven Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add upMagary, James The trouble with the Internet is that it's replacing masturbation as a leisure activity.Murray, Patrick « Previous Page | Next Page » |
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