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.

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...