Quotes About Computers

In the future, I'm sure there will be a lot more robots in every aspect of life. If you told people in 1985 that in 25 years they would have computers in their kitchen, it would have made no sense to them.

Why is it that I notice so many brilliant scientists using Macs for their personal computers; why does the Lawrence Livermore & Berkeley Labs buy millions of dollars worth of Macs?

The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand, and then I type them up on my old electric. I have resisted getting a computer because I distrust the whole PC thing. I don't think a great book has yet been written on computer.

You can model experiments on computers now and then execute them, and you don't actually need a fully stocked lab.

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

I spent many, many hours with my computer, and it really bugged me that it was very oblivious to my emotional state. And that kind of inspired and motivated me to build an emotionally intelligent computer.

Doesn't it make you wonder about your own sexual identity, not to mention your sanity, that the two women you love are, respectively, a virtual woman existing only in the transient ansible connections between computers and a woman whose soul is in fact that of a man who is the husband of your mother?

So our reliance on the computers caused the failure of the mission? asked the expendable. The mission didn't fail, said Ram. It succeeded nineteen times. We're just the exhaust trail.

Computers were a kind of magery in themselves, or might as well be - to people who didn't understand them, they were every bit as inscrutable.

Humans make a machine, and then fool themselves into believing that their own brains are no better than the machines. This allows them to believe that their creation, the computer, is as brilliant as their own minds. But it's a ridiculous self-deception. Computers aren't even in the same league.

Het was makkelijk genoeg om een programma te schrijven dat de doden zou ordenen, zei hij, maar eigenlijk wilde hij een programma schrijven dat de zin van het sterven kon verklaren. Dat was de verre toekomst. Ooit zouden de computers alle grote geesten bijeenbrengen. Over dertig, veertig, honderd jaar. Als we elkaar voor die tijd niet opblazen. We zitten op het topje van de menselijke kennis, mamma.

Botnets are supremely powerful, since they can comprise thousands, even hundreds of thousands of computers, scattered all over the Internet, connected to juicy high-speed connections and running on fast home PCs. Those PCs normally function on behalf of their owners, but when the botmaster calls them, they rise like zombies to do his bidding.

Without the U.S. embargo, the Revolution couldn't have survived. It'd needed a common enemy to blame for its economic ills. In the end consumerism, not guns would destroy Socialism. Microwaves and computers, motorcycles, iPhones, Omaha Steaks.

Asked about the fact that Apple's iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs joked, 'It's like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell.

But the main lesson to draw from the birth of computers is that innovation is usually a group effort, involving collaboration between visionaries and engineers, and that creativity comes from drawing on many sources. Only in storybooks do inventions come like a thunderbolt, or a lightbulb popping out of the head of a lone individual in a basement or garret or garage.

Now kids get a MacBook and regard it as an appliance. They treat it like a refrigerator and expect it to be filled with good things, but they don't know how it works. They don't fully understand what I knew, and my parents knew, which was what you could do with a computer was limited only by your imagination."8

One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other 'My little computer said such a funny thing this morning!' " he japed in 1951.

In other words, the future might belong to people who can best partner and collaborate with computers.

The year before, 279,000 Apple IIs were sold, compared to 240,000 IBM PCs and its clones.

Si Von Neumann y su equipo hubieran seguido liderando las innovaciones y las hubiesen hecho de dominio público, ¿habría conducido ese modelo de desarrollo de código abierto a un progreso más rápido de los ordenadores?

McCarthy's vision was prescient, but it differed in one major way from Kay's vision, and from the networked world that we have today. It was not based on personal computers with their own memory and processing power.

The iMac went on sale in August 1998 for $1,299. It sold 278,000 units in its first six weeks, and would sell 800,000 by the end of the year, making it the fastest-selling computer in Apple history.

The Beatles kept their end of the bargain; none of them ever produced any computers. But Apple ended up wandering into the music business. It got sued again in 1991, when

receiver from Hallicrafters, the most sophisticated radios available. Woz spent a lot of time at home reading his father's electronics journals, and he became enthralled by stories about new computers, such as the powerful ENIAC.