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

For most digital-age writers, writing is rewriting. We grope, cut, block, paste, and twitch, panning for gold onscreen by deleting bucketloads of crap. Our analog ancestors had to polish every line mentally before hammering it...

Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they revert to bad, mob-like behaviors.

Most of Csongor’s time in T’Rain had been spent blundering about in a state of hapless newbie confusion. Only his long experience as a system administrator, struggling with Byzantine software installations, had prevented hum from...

Life is meant to explore the world, not computer.

Traditionally, the single downside of the online program has been the credit-card payment requirement. But we have computers in the office here where individuals can pay cash and take the test, so we expect the...

Because words have deep meaning, Tweets have power.

Computers: he always fixed on computers when his mind wandered into the future–instruments he revered and hated. The computer world was a place where snotty kids knew everything and nothing…. The computer was part of...

I’m expecting to get a couple more years out of these computers.

the screen and keyboard account for much of computers’ weight. The intelligent part of a computer is a thousand times smaller than a Gucci buckle.

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for...

Bad economics teaches that computers can design markets. Good economics teaches that markets can design computers.

Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor.

Even parents who are watching their kids’ computers are clueless that they’ve put a [cell phone] in their kid’s hands that can be used to trade this stuff around.

People that hold onto hate for so long do so because they want to avoid dealing with their pain. They falsely believe if they forgive they are letting their enemy believe they are a doormat....

Helpfiles are traditionally outnumbered by no-help files, which superficially resemble a helpfile in form but not in content because they don’t actually tell you anything you don’t already know, or they answer every question except...

The intentions of the cybernetic totalist tribe are good. They are simply following a path that was blazed in earlier times by well-meaning Freudians and Marxists – and I don’t mean that in a pejorative...

In their camps they have airstrips, planes … very sophisticated equipment like computers and satellite transmitters, everything you can possibly imagine that isn’t necessary to evangelize indigenous groups,

On job portals, there are more Employers than Seekers, in real world it is reverse..

We’ve had a lot more teens hanging out at the new library, … The kids really like the new computers and a lot of them come here to hang out with their friends and do...

E-commerce businesses, even e-commerce specialists, have yet to realize that the WWW is first and foremost an emotional experience. Few websites reflect this important priority.

Do I think people will read ‘Moby Dick’ on their computers? No.

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention with the possible exceptions of handguns and Tequila.

It’s a non-issue for us… We sell computers.

If we go down and have no phones, no computers and no cell phones, we are still going to be able to communicate,

The automobile today is nothing more than a rolling physics lab with a lot of computers in it. These kids are the computer generation. They grab the technology and go fast with it.

I have only touched one other computer at my friend Marissa’s house, and found the experience disconcerting. There was something sinister about the green letters and numbers that flashed on the screen as the computer...

Kids want to have the latest in technology, just like adults. Kids have grown up with computers. They are not afraid of technology, they embrace it.

get that”, we will forever be a society that thinks Beautiful Mind was a spy movie and every stranger is really a friend on Facebook.

No one messes around with a nerd’s computer and escapes unscathed.

This digital revolutionary still believes in most of the lovely deep ideals that energized our work so many years ago. At the core was a sweet faith in human nature. If we empowered individuals, we...

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

Despite of the growing industry in technology and the sophistication of cellular phones to tabs and touch screens, the level of human brain from the genius to dumb can never be compared to computers”.

Immaterial as water, too vast for any mortal apprehension, the Web’s outstanding qualities allow us to confuse the ungraspable with the eternal.

Mobile computing is moving from the fringe to the mainstream. Portable computers are becoming the primary PC.

Man is a slow, sloppy, and brilliant thinker; computers are fast, accurate, and stupid.

We conquer the Independence Day aliens by having a Macintosh laptop computer upload a software virus to the mothership (which happens to be one-fifth the mass of the Moon), thus disarming its protective force field....

The cost of computers is still a problem along with access to Internet service, … If you don’t see marketing efforts toward your group and someone to set up the computer and internet service, you...

now it’s computers and more computersand soon everybody will have one,3-year-olds will have computersand everybody will know everythingabout everybody elselong before they meet them.nobody will want to meet anybodyelse ever againand everybody will bea recluselike...

Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.

Because we don’t live in a society anymore, Tom. We live in an economy. We’re not citizens. We’re customers. That’s what this government’s done to us.

What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can’t get that from a computer.

Forget UNIX – it will be gone in 5 years.

A mind is a simulation that simulates itself.

But the Turing test cuts both ways. You can’t tell if a machine has gotten smarter or if you’ve just lowered your own standards of intelligence to such a degree that the machine seems smart....

The information age is so psychotic – without the cell phone and Internet, I would be drama free right now.

Don’t explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.

Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself.

Physical jobs will be done by robots and mental jobs will be done by smart computers.

Don’t respond to email immediately. Wait, think about a reply. It’s good netiquette.