computers

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Unlike human beings, computers possess the truly profound stupidity of the inanimate.

- Bruce Sterling

2.

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

- E. W. Dijkstra

3.

If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.

4.

If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and no-one dares criticize it.

- Pierre Gallois

5.

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

- Ken Olsen

6.

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

- Baudrillard, Jean

7.

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.

- Jeff Raskin

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Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies

- Bill Bulko

9.

Silicon Valley is like a person running around in front of a steamroller. You can outrun the steamroller on any given day. But if you ever sit down you get squashed.

- Boschert, Bob

10.

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.

- Doug Larson

11.

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."

- Bernard Avishai

12.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

- Kennedy, John F.

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Computers in the future will weigh no more than 1.5 tons. [Quoted in Popular Mechanics 1950]

14.

It is hardly surprising that children should enthusiastically start their education at an early age with the Absolute Knowledge of computer science; while they are unable to read, for reading demands making judgments at every line. Conversation is almost dead, and soon so too will be those who knew how to speak.

- Debord, Guy

15.

Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.

- Martin Schulze

16.

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.

- Andy Rooney

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Computer science only indicates the retrospective omnipotence of our technologies. In other words, an infinite capacity to process data (but only data -- i.e. the already given) and in no sense a new vision. With that science, we are entering an era of exhaustivity, which is also an era of exhaustion.

- Baudrillard, Jean

18.

Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.

- Quentin Crisp

19.

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

- Harris, Sidney J.

20.

The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers.

- Cascio, Jamais