#computer

Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society. ↗

— Kent Conrad

#access #basic #become #education #internet

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#about #computer #count #created #destructive

It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow. ↗

— Craig Bruce

#fast #hardware #machine #makes #slow

Turing presented his new offering in the form of a thought experiment, based on a popular Victorian parlor game. A man and a woman hide, and a judge is asked to determine which is which by relying only on the texts of notes passed back and forth. Turing replaced the woman with a computer. Can the judge tell which is the man? If not, is the computer conscious? Intelligent? Does it deserve equal rights? It's impossible for us to know what role the torture Turing was enduring at the time played in his formulation of the test. But it is undeniable that one of the key figures in the defeat of fascism was destroyed, by our side, after the war, because he was gay. No wonder his imagination pondered the rights of strange creatures. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#artificial-intelligence #computers #gay #homosexuality #singularity

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking. ↗

— Milton Glaser

#cooking #design

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.' ↗

— Ronald Graham

#ask #computer #correct #could #discouraging

Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#also #autism #bad #brain #cables

I like my computer. But I don't know how to use it as well as the 10-year-old daughter. ↗

— David Duchovny

#daughter #how #i #know #like

There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them! ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

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