391 Quotes About Computers

Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.

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.

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 fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.

Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective computer-mediated communication.

Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.

Technology offers us a unique opportunity, though rarely welcome, to practice patience.

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 think of the stuff as if it were alive and had its own ideas and ambitions. But what if information is inanimate? What if it's even less than inanimate, a mere artifact of human thought? What if only humans are real, and information is not?...Information is alienated experience.

Immaterial as water, too vast for any mortal apprehension, the Web's outstanding qualities allow us to confuse the ungraspable with the eternal.