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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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"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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"Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society."
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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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"Honestly, I'm more into the computer, the Internet, and checking out scores or the news."
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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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"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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"One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'"
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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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"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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"No computer, no gadget, no trickery. I am an animal, it is a plant. I will beat the weed!"
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"While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute's computer; we also went on hikes together."
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"The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash."
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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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"In 1975 I met Alison Brown and in 1982 we were married. She works for Cornell Computer Services."
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"Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think."
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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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"I am a composer, horn player, and computer programmer."
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"In the original computer game of Doom, you not only have to kill things. You have to pulverise them."
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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 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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"I don't have a computer. I don't know anything about that. I don't even know what a website is."
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"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."
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"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."
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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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"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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"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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"Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people's privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information."
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