#computers

Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#recorders #replaced #tape #virtually

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

— Edsger Dijkstra

#about #astronomy #computer #computer science #more

I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type. ↗

— Jack Welch

#afraid #because #i #internet #type

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

We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#came #computers #earth #elements #forget

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

— Joseph Campbell

#gods #like #lots #mercy #old

There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them! ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#anybody #completely #computer #computers #disease

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

You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love? ↗

— Lech Walesa

#direction #faith #feel #freedom #here