391 Quotes About Computers

All of a sudden, we’ve lost a lot of control,’ he said. ‘We can’t turn off our internet; we can’t turn off our smartphones; we can’t turn off our computers. You used to ask a smart person a question. Now, who do you ask? It starts with g-o, and it’s not God…

By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.

When all is said and done, the invention of writing must be reckoned not only as a brilliant innovation but as a surpassing good for humanity. And assuming that we survive long enough to use their inventions wisely, I believe the same will be said of the modern Thoths and Prometheuses who are today devisingcomputers and programs at the edge of machine intelligence.

Dartmouth College employs computer learning techniques in a very broad array of courses. For example, a student can gain a deep insight into the statistics of Mendelian genetics in an hour with the computer rather than spend a year crossing fruit fliesin the laboratory.

Comparable specification Windows 10 computers from multiple manufacturers can have very different performance between them.

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention with the possible exceptions of handguns and Tequila.

Forty-two!" yelled Loonquawl. "Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' work?" "I checked it very thoroughly," said the computer, "and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.

A piece of plastic stole an entire species—In lobbies, in the bathroom, in an elevator,Ideas, reactions, and silent contemplations,During lunchtime, during mass, during his funeral, On the street, on break, on duty,Before the waiter brings the food and after the check,While the flight attendant bothers to request airplane mode, While a trafficked victim speaks to you in code,While the potential love of our life just walked past,While mother cooks with a recipe we forgot to ask.

The computer focuses ruthlessly on things that can be represented in numbers. In so doing, it seduces people into thinking that other aspects of knowledge are either unreal or unimportant. The computer treats reason as an instrument for achieving things, not for contemplating things. It narrows dramatically what we know and intended by reason.