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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."
90
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."
86
"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers."
72
"Whenever I'm on my computer, I don't type 'lol'. I type 'lqtm' - laugh quietly to myself. It's more honest."
70
"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."
64
"To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer."
62
"I am a composer, horn player, and computer programmer."
55
"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."
54
"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."
53
"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."
51
"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."
48
"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."
47
"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."
47
"One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'"
46
"A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human."
46
"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."
45
"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."
45
"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."
43
"Honestly, I'm more into the computer, the Internet, and checking out scores or the news."
43
"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."
43
"I use a really simple calendar program on my computer."
43
"To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer."
43
"Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us."
43
"Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders."
43
"Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog."
43
"Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build."
42
"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."
41
"That's the new way - with computers, computers, computers. That's the way we can have the cell survive and get some new information in high resolution. We started about five years ago and, today, I think we have reached the target."
41
"I'm the computer operator for Operation Rescue National."
41
"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."
40
"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."
40
"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."
39
"In the original computer game of Doom, you not only have to kill things. You have to pulverise them."
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