71 quotes found
“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 Dangr...”
“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.”
“When computers are able to imagine, then humanity will get its death notice.”
“now its 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...”
“And when I am in a new place, because I see everything, it is like when a computer is doing too many things at the same time and the central processor unit is blocked up and there isn't any space l...”
“I hate computers. My hatred is entrenched, and I nourish it daily. Im comfortable with it, and no community outreach program will change my mind. I hate computers for getting their own section in t...”
“Can they love? Or is it a bit of code meant to get a reaction from humans? Can anyone tell real love, in a bot or in a human?”
“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 s...”
“Turn your diodes this way and pulse...”
“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.”
“Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they revert to bad, mob-like behaviors.”
“The intentions of the cybernetic totalist tribe are good. They are simply following a path that was blazed in earlier times by well-meaning Freudians and Marxists - and I don't mean that in a pejor...”
“This digital revolutionary still believes in most of the lovely deep ideals that energized our work so many years ago. At the core was a sweet faith in human nature. If we empowered individuals, we...”
“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.”
“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 to...”
“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 thing...”
“Forget UNIX - it will be gone in 5 years.”
“Being 'Tech Savvy' allows me to tie my own shoe laces, ride a tricycle, draw stick figures, play hop scotch and much, much more.Otherwise I'd be a 'Techno Illiterate'.”
“We need a cybersecurity renaissance in this Country that promotes cyber hygiene and a security centric corporate culture applied and continuously reinforced by peer pressure”
“Theres no silver bullet solution with cyber security, a layered defense is the only viable defense”
