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.

People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They’re wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.

[I] recall thinking that the computer would never advance much further than this. Call me na ”,ve, but I seemed to have underestimated the universal desire to sit in a hard plastic chair and stare...

The Internet lets us do that for first time in the history of computers. It lets us, in effect, make them into one big parallel supercomputer.

Every scrape, site, range and page; every game, download, hack, song, movie and virrie on the Web. Everything on your phone. Everything on your ‘puta. Even the content directories of your cupboards. Almost every system...

It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.

It is no longer just engineers who dominate our technology leadership, because it is no longer the case that computers are so mysterious that only engineers can understand what they are capable of. There is...

What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!

Can the child who is Dell; be the outer emoodiment of man’s quest to save himself? To cure himself?…Or, to “be” himself?

Any idiot can put up a website.

Many professionals have to sign gagging clauses or face the sack if they speak out. The social worker and therapist was familiar with the scare that revelation brings to the survivor. […]We are in this...

Social Media begins with a story – your story.

I’m going to name my firstborn son 0123456789, because I want him to learn to count before he learns the alphabet. And my second son I’ll call 01, because I want him to get into...

When I tried to figure out how computers worked, I was disgusted. I thought it was totally brute force. I felt there had to be a more elegant way to do this.