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“Brain-like in function and speed, the internet connected over one-third of the global population. Three million searches every minute; one-hundred-trillion emails every year; more Facebook users th...”
“Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.”
“the screen and keyboard account for much of computers' weight. The intelligent part of a computer is a thousand times smaller than a Gucci buckle.”
“People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time.”
“It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.”
“The information age is so psychotic without the cell phone and Internet, I would be drama free right now.”
“Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.”
“Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor.”
“Bad economics teaches that computers can design markets. Good economics teaches that markets can design computers.”
“You didn't happen to install Windows when you upgraded me, did you?”
“Let us return for a moment to Lady Lovelaces 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 the machine, and that it wi...”
“There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them.”
“Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it was just comedy, computers and chess club; those were my big things.”
“Immaterial as water, too vast for any mortal apprehension, the Web's outstanding qualities allow us to confuse the ungraspable with the eternal.”
“Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly. ”
“Life is meant to explore the world, not computer.”
“A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention with the possible exceptions of handguns and Tequila.”
“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.”
“I am convinced that grandkids are inherently evil people who tell their grandparents to "just go to the library and open up an e-mail account - it's free and so simple.”
“Any idiot can put up a website.”
