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Computer Quotes
"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers."
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"Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time."
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"It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too."
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"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."
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"Whenever I'm on my computer, I don't type 'lol'. I type 'lqtm' - laugh quietly to myself. It's more honest."
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"To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer."
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"We can just assume they have much more and powerful, more advanced technology, all the new computers, everything could be much more easier and help them to build much more and many more nuclear weapons."
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"Honestly, I'm more into the computer, the Internet, and checking out scores or the news."
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"Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society."
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"I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system."
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"No computer, no gadget, no trickery. I am an animal, it is a plant. I will beat the weed!"
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"Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something."
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"One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'"
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"I am a composer, horn player, and computer programmer."
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"I use a really simple calendar program on my computer."
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"Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world."
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"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."
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"To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer."
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"Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build."
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"You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize."
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"It would be very discouraging if somewhere down the line you could ask a computer if the Riemann hypothesis is correct and it said, 'Yes, it is true, but you won't be able to understand the proof.'"
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"A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage."
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"I'm the computer operator for Operation Rescue National."
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"I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems."
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"In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field."
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"At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff."
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"The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash."
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"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."
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"If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools."
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"A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human."
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"Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us."
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"Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog."
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