#computers

Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction. ↗

— Roy Romer

#computers #costly #doing #even #i

Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#depend #lives #our #our lives #performing

I continue to meet people who have had their Web pages hijacked, their browsers corrupted, in some cases, their children exposed to inappropriate material from these dangerous programs hidden in their family computers. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

#children #computers #continue #corrupted #dangerous

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. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#done #easier #lot #make #most

Computers make me totally blank out. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#computers #make #me #out #totally

I got up with my wife, I sat down at the computer when she went to work, and I didn't stop until she got home. ↗

— George Stephen

#computer #down #got #home #i

It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they've been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them. ↗

— Roy H. Williams

#been #carry #computers #demands #faster

The attribution of intelligence to machines, crowds of fragments, or other nerd deities obscures more than it illuminates. When people are told that a computer is intelligent, they become prone to changing themselves in order to make the computer appear to work better, instead of demanding that the computer be changed to become more useful. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#artificial-intelligence #computers #personhood #technology #change

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications. ↗

— Dave Parnas

#applications #been #failed #real #repeatedly

Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid: humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#imagination