Well, that would not be necessary, Mr. President. It could easily be accomplished with a computer. And a computer could be set and programmed to accept factors from youth, health, sexual fertility, intelligence, and a cross-section of necessary skills. Of course, it would be absolutely vital that our top government and military men be included […]
Computers Quotes
I think there is a world market for about five 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 […]
In cyberspace everyone will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
To err is human, to compute divine. Trust your computer but not its programmer
Owed to a Spell Chequer: Eye halve a spelling chequer, It came with my pea see, It plainly marques four my review, Miss steaks eye kin not sea. Eye strike a key and type a word, And weight four it two say, Weather eye am wrong oar rite… It shows me strait a weigh. As […]
Everything that I’ve learned about computers at MIT I have boiled down into three principles: Unix: You think it won’t work, but if you find the right wizard, he can make it work. Macintosh: You think it will work, but it won’t. PC/Windows: You think it won’t work, and it won’t.
