#computers

A few years ago a friend said that I use to hunt and fish and build houses and things but now my whole life revolved around my computer I replied "But my computer revolves around the world ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#computers #internet #stantasyland #life

Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#internet #internet

People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#around #bad #better #cars #computer

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.' ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#computer #down #expressions #feared #modern

You can't trust the internet. ↗

— Nicolette Sheridan

#internet #trust #you

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#about #astronomy #computer #computer science #more

Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them. ↗

— Richard Dooling

#because #computers #created #credit #default

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing. ↗

— Douglas Engelbart

#digital #even #far #invention #more

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#gods #like #lots #mercy #old

I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'. ↗

— Bruce Schneier

#am #answer #asked #average #ensure