#computers

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

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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

What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents. ↗

— Dale Dougherty

#did #documents #imagine #people #web

When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment. ↗

— Frank Press

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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

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Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#depend #lives #our #our lives #performing