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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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"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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"To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer."
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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."
9
"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."
6
"There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants."
3
"Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society."
2
"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."
2
"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."
2
"Honestly, I'm more into the computer, the Internet, and checking out scores or the news."
2
"My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing."
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"I don't have a computer. I don't know anything about that. I don't even know what a website is."
2
"Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s."
2
"The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation."
1
"I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems."
1
"Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build."
1
"I don't have a computer - I don't like to get into it that much 'cause it can screw with your head a little."
1
"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."
1
"If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available."
1
"It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too."
1
"Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted."
1
"I've heard that, but since I'm computer illiterate I don't know how it all works. But since I'm on Prodigy tonight, I'm learning a lot through my typist, Peter."
1
"Another misconception is that an order is canceled when you hit 'cancel' on your computer. But, the fact is it's canceled only when the market gets the cancellation."
1
"The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use. I was their human guinea pig."
1
"Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer."
1
"I continue to meet people who have had their Web pages hijacked, their browsers corrupted, in some cases, their children exposed to inappropriate material from these dangerous programs hidden in their family computers."
1
"A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage."
1
"No computer, no gadget, no trickery. I am an animal, it is a plant. I will beat the weed!"
1
"If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object."
1
"Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog."
1
"And then you start getting into the technical side of it and the aesthetic side and with those areas you can come up with new ways to visualise things, new ways to render and use the computer to make things look different and new and stuff like that."
1
"It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was - and is - respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills."
1
"One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal computers. There weren't that many people to sell to, and it was hard to identify them."
"But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths."
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