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Computer Quotes
"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."
81
"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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"Whenever I'm on my computer, I don't type 'lol'. I type 'lqtm' - laugh quietly to myself. It's more honest."
60
"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."
55
"To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer."
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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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"I am a composer, horn player, and computer programmer."
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"I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up."
41
"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."
41
"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."
39
"One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'"
38
"Honestly, I'm more into the computer, the Internet, and checking out scores or the news."
38
"A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human."
38
"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."
38
"Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build."
37
"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."
37
"I'm the computer operator for Operation Rescue National."
36
"Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders."
36
"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."
35
"I use Windows; '98 second edition and it works very good for me. You know, I just started on the computer about 9 months ago and am fascinated with the possibilities. I don't know what I would do without it now."
35
"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."
35
"CGI is done after the film is done. It's through the computer. Most of the film is not computer-generated special effects. Most of it is that creature that is in the room with you."
35
"On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds."
35
"To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer."
35
"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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"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."
34
"I use a really simple calendar program on my computer."
34
"Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us."
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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."
34
"The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii."
33
"Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer."
33
"The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired."
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"What I try to do is factor in how people use computers, what people's problems are, and how these technologies can get applied to those problems. Then I try to direct the various product groups to act on this information."
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