Quotes about computers, page 2
The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.
quote by Adam Osborne
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To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
quote by Robert Orben
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All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.
quote by Steve Wozniak
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That's the new way - with computers, computers, computers. That's the way we can have the cell survive and get some new information in high resolution. We started about five years ago and, today, I think we have reached the target.
quote by Lennart Nilsson
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Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
quote by Edsger Dijkstra
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The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.
quote by Bernard Avishai
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There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!
quote by Richard P. Feynman
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There are no projects per se in the Computing Sciences Research Center.
quote by Ken Thompson
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REALIZATION OF ROMANIAN COMPUTERS - In the period 1955-1957, ROMANIA designed and built its first digital electronic computer (1957, CIFA 1 computer), by a team led by Victor Toma, at the Institute of Atomic Physics (IFA ) - Magurele Bucharest. After 1970 followed the construction of Romanian electronic computers FELIX C series at the ICE Felix Electronic Computers Factory based on licenses purchased from the Dutch company FRIDEN and CII, a French private company created in 1966, within the French government project Plan Calcul, in the time of Charles de Gaulle.
Marin Vlada in ROINFO Romanian Informatics 2018-2022
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People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
quote by Adam Osborne
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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.
quote by Sydney J. Harris
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Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies.
quote by Bill Bulko
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Time factors for merit
Today’s computer is marvelous today.
Yesterday’s calculator was marvelous
yesterday.
Merit counts with time factors.
Exceptions are literature and monuments.
25.04.2003
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it.
quote by Kevin Kelly
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Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.
Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.
quote by Philip Emeagwali
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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
quote by Ted Nelson
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
quote by Edmund Burke
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The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.
quote by Adam Osborne
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