#computers

I started getting into Internet technologies and computers. I wasn't especially interested in being a musician, but I wound up finding my way back to being interested in music through computers. ↗

— Eric Avery

#being #computers #especially #finding #getting

Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#recorders #replaced #tape #virtually

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software. ↗

— Greg Egan

#branch #civilisation #computers #conscious #consists

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

— Joseph Campbell

#gods #like #lots #mercy #old

I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time. ↗

— Vinton Cerf

#between #computers #december #end #i

Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society. ↗

— Kent Conrad

#access #basic #become #education #internet

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#about #computer #count #created #destructive

It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow. ↗

— Craig Bruce

#fast #hardware #machine #makes #slow

Turing presented his new offering in the form of a thought experiment, based on a popular Victorian parlor game. A man and a woman hide, and a judge is asked to determine which is which by relying only on the texts of notes passed back and forth. Turing replaced the woman with a computer. Can the judge tell which is the man? If not, is the computer conscious? Intelligent? Does it deserve equal rights? It's impossible for us to know what role the torture Turing was enduring at the time played in his formulation of the test. But it is undeniable that one of the key figures in the defeat of fascism was destroyed, by our side, after the war, because he was gay. No wonder his imagination pondered the rights of strange creatures. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#artificial-intelligence #computers #gay #homosexuality #singularity

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking. ↗

— Milton Glaser

#cooking #design