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

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.

The computers are theirs as long as they stay involved with the program.

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...

There is never finality in the display terminal’s screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a key. The significance of the past, as expressed in the...

Computers are heaven-sent when they work and hell-spawn when they don’t.There’s just not much middle ground when it comes to technology.

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is ”The computer is down”

The next big wave for computers, at least as far as we can tell, is going to be these modular designs, so it’s a race to see which major brand does it first,

All of a sudden, we’ve lost a lot of control,’ he said. ‘We can’t turn off our internet; we can’t turn off our smartphones; we can’t turn off our computers. You used to ask a...

The deal says, you stick to computers and we’ll stick to music.

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...

This case comes at a time when people are starting to recognize that the information they put into their computers creates a record. In the bigger picture, as people input more information into computers, they...

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we’d given customers what they said they wanted, we’d have built a computer they’d have been happy with a year after we spoke to...

I pat the brand new twenty-seven inch Macintosh computers Mr. Foley brought us. ‘These boxes alone should make both of us scream like it’s Christmas morning! Snap out of it. Santa came! Now we get...

The Googleplex Star Thinker is a super-computer from the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity and has the ability to calculate the trajectory of every single dust particle during a five-week Dangrabad Beta sand blizzard.The...

After growing wildly for years, the field of computing appears to be reaching its infancy.

… we have created a man with not one brain but two. … This new brain is intended to control the biological brain. … The patient’s biological brain is the peripheral terminal — the only...

As he got older, he just became intimidated by these computers. It was kind of devastating for him.

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.