Amazin’.’ he said again. ‘He just looks as though he’s thinking, right?”Er…yes.”But he’s not actually thinking?”Er…no.”So…he just gives the impression of thinking but really it’s just a show?”Er…yes.’Just like everyone else, then really,’ said Ridcully

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I’m talking about an organic computer – about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.

why?”. And his question was beautiful.The new world will be a place of answers and no questions, because the only questions left will be answered by computers, because only computers will know what to ask.Perhaps...

All perception is the result of electrical impulses in the brain – the world of the individual is tantamount to a highly advanced computer running and analyzing programs in its working memory.

A few years ago a friend said that I use to hunt and fish and build houses and things but now my whole life revolved around my computer I replied “But my computer revolves around...

What Apple Computers are not doing (when) using the Apple mark is selling software, delivery systems, or anything of the like. They are selling music. And that is in violation of the agreement.

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...

The world is changing rapidly, and everyone changes along with the world. Discoveries is now becoming rampant; intellectually, technologically,etc, each having its advantage and disadvantage.

We want to stand at the intersection of computers and humanism

There’s a bigger agenda here. Tandem has been in the forefront in moving to clustering [combining smaller computers’ processing power to act like a mainframe]. That’s one area that Compaq, along with Microsoft and Intel,...

I hate computers. My hatred is entrenched, and I nourish it daily. I’m comfortable with it, and no community outreach program will change my mind. I hate computers for getting their own section in the...

If you are going to need more computers in a school, you need to know that before you start renovating so you can provide the electrical hookups necessary.

Opponents past and present have the same essential weakness about them: first they want to use you, then they want to be you, then they want to snuff you out.

Plus, it always bugged me to see how my dad became unable to use the phone when the computers started taking over. So part of my motivation for this fight is in his name.

I know there’s a proverb which that says ‘To err is human,’ but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.

The new world will be a place of answers and no questions, because the only questions left will be answered by computers, because only computers will know what to ask

(The) vast majority of the machines infected…are home computers. Nothing will happen on them until people get home from work and boot up their machines. We’d like to think that they whole problem was avoided...

If patterns of ones and zeroes were “like” patterns of human lives and deaths, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long strings of ones and zeroes, then...

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]

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

Information wants to be free.’ So goes the saying. Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, seems to have said it first.I say that information doesn’t deserve to be free.Cybernetic totalists love to...

Computers have very tight profit margins, making it difficult to convince manufacturers to be more environmentally friendly in the manufacturing process.

Apple had a terrific quarter — we sold a record number of Power Macintosh G3 computers, customers love our new PowerBooks, Apple earned its highest profit in years and we ended the quarter with the...

The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don’t understand computers.

I really didn’t foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course–the computer industry didn’t even foresee that the century was going to end.

If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I’d say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set...

Some seniors are afraid of computers or don’t know how to use them well to feel confident to file online.

On a scale ranging from very little to too much, Merkin could just about categorize the amount of personal data stored in Master Loo’s computer as a shitload.

Let us return for a moment to Lady Lovelace’s objection, which stated that the machine can only do what we tell it to do. One could say that a man can “inject” an idea into...

By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.

You didn’t happen to install Windows when you upgraded me, did you?

To err is human – and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

I can’t control who follows me, but I can control who I follow.[Social Media]

A file on a hard disk does indeed contain information of the kind that objectively exists. The fact that the bits are discernible instead of being scrambled into mush – the way heat scrambles things...

The computer may be incompetent in itself–that is, unable to do the work for which it was designed. This kind of incompetence can never be eliminated, because the Peter Principle applies in the plants where...

These are the first personal computers in history with dual processors, … This is the kind of stuff many of our customers do every day and this can save them an hour or two each...

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don’t realize are computers at all

Forty-two!” yelled Loonquawl. “Is that all you’ve got to show for seven and a half million years’ work?” “I checked it very thoroughly,” said the computer, “and that quite definitely is the answer. I think...

As an orangutan cannot embrace higher mathematics or comprehend the architecture and operation of a computer, we humans __ so good at loudly proclaiming our intelligence and applauding our own doltish displays of cerebral gymnastics...

The first quarter was better because of better-than-expected extra demand for personal computers.

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

Computers are quiet and clean and totally distracting because the Internet is there, lying in wait for a moment of weakness to pounce on your creativity and progress.

the problem with reading off a screen isn’t resolution, eyestrain, or compatibility with reading in the bathtub: it’s that computers are seductive, they tempt us to do other things, making concentrating on a long-form work...

The externalization of memory [via the use of external symbolic storage systems] has altered the actual memory architecture within which humans think, which is changing the role of biological memory, the way in which the...

Anti-glare screens to prevent eye strain??? In my day, you didn’t need an anti-glare screen. With the power they consumed, when you turned your computer on, the whole building darkened!

Just like the notion of “Internet natives”, who have never known a world without Internet access, we, who have lived our entire lives with video games, can be known as “video game natives.

Twitter is not just for Journalists. You don’t have to be a writer to Tweet.[Social Media]

People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time.

We’re still working on getting digital microscopes and computers.

It’s hard to get motivated fixing a compile-time syntax error when you can buy a powder that turns a house into a monster.