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A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.
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The spread of computers and the Internet will put jobs in two categories. People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.
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There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.
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Computers were a kind of magery in themselves, or might as well be to people who didn't understand them, they were every bit as inscrutable.
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Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.
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Computers are quiet and clean and totally distracting because the Internet is there, lying in wait for a moment of weakness to pounce on your creativity and progress.
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It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.
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Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.
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The similarities between humans and computers are more numerous than the differences.
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The computer takes up where psychoanalysis left off. It takes the ideas of a decentered self and makes it more concrete by modeling mind as a multiprocessing machine.
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Computers are finite machines; when given the same input, they always produce the same output.
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Computer science really involves the same mindset, particularly artificial intelligence.
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It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.
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Computers no longer interface with humans they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.
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The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.
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Computers have lots of memory but no imagination.
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Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success.
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The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
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If you don’t know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result.
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The attention span of a computer is only as long as its power cord.
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It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
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The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
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The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.
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Our first computers were born not out of greed or ego, but in the revolutionary spirit of helping common people rise above the most powerful institutions.
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A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
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Computers are composed of nothing more than logic gates stretched out to the horizon in a vast numerical irrigation system.
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Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
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Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.
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Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in this world that just don't add up.
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The new world will be a place of answers and no questions, because the only questions left will be answered by computers, because only computers will know what to ask.
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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.
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Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.
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To err is human, to really foul things up requires a computer.
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The computer will not make a good manager out of a bad manager. It makes a good manager better faster and a bad manager worse faster.
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Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.
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The computer brings out the uptight perfectionist in us- we start editing ideas before we have them.
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All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
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A computer is almost human except that it does not blame its mistakes on another computer.
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It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.
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Computers are great tools, but they need to be applied to the physical world.
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Computers do the calculating to allow people to transform the world.
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Computer assisted proofs are getting better and better and computers will play a bigger and bigger role in the future.
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As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
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The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Man is unbelievably slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. The marriage of the two is a force beyond calculation.
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Computers are like old testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
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Computers creating art is an upsetting concept mostly because of what it means about humans.
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Bad economics teaches that computers can design markets. Good economics teaches that markets can design computers.
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Our computers have become windows through which we can gaze upon a world that is virtually without horizons or boundaries.
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