#computers

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#eventually #get #journalists #kill #middle-class

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. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#computers #cooperation #current #enabling #extension

I take computers practically apart and put them back together. I have a supercomputer I built over the years out of different computers. ↗

— Jared Leto

#back #built #computers #different #i

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#able #being #complicated #complicated things #famous

I get hired to hack into computers now and sometimes it's actually easier than it was years ago. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#ago #computers #easier #get #hack

I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface. ↗

— David Mamet

#altogether #appear #bad #bad thing #believed

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. ↗

— Thomas Nagel

#attempts #beings #believe #computers #conscious

The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do. ↗

— Ted Nelson

#about #bad #bad news #good #good news

We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software. ↗

— Tim O'Reilly

#data #entering #important #may #more

I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill. ↗

— Christopher Plummer

#computer #i #old-fashioned #quill #too