The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.
Computers Quotes
It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.
Whenever someone annoys me, I create a file with his or her name on it and drag it to my Mac’s trash icon. If I’m really angry, I empty the trash, and whoever was bugging me disappears into the void.
In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it takes men many months to equal it.
A crash is when your competitor’s program dies. When your program dies, it is an ‘idiosyncrasy’. Frequently, crashes are followed with a message like ‘ID 02’. ‘ID’ is an abbreviation for idiosyncrasy and the number that follows indicates how many more months of testing the product should have had.
Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.
The last thing you want to do is think more logically. The great thing about computers is that they have no gravity systems. The logical system is the one that you make up. Computers are a wonderful way of being bizarre.
We intend to remain alive. Our neighbours want to see us dead. This does not leave much room for compromise.
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
Each of these cults correspond to one of the two antagonists in the age of Reformation. In the realm of the Apple Macintosh, as in Catholic Europe, worshipers peer devoutly into screens filled with “icons.” All is sound and imagery and Appledom. Even words look like decorative filigrees in exotic typefaces. The greatest icon of […]
