#computers

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

Now, 75 years [after To Kill a Mockingbird], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. [Open Letter, O Magazine, July 2006] ↗

— Harper Lee

#communication #computers #critical-thinking #modern-life #reading

The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual. ↗

— Earl Warren

#computers #e-mail #individuality #internet #prediction

Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective computer-mediated communication. ↗

— Robert D. Putnam

#computers #internet #technology #communication

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

— Albert Einstein

#imagination

People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them. ↗

— Bruce Schneier

#boxes #computers #magical #people #tell

Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference; we should each be treated with appropriate respect. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#computers #diversity #robots #intelligence