“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”    ? Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
“First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.”     ? Douglas Adams
“Today," she told it, "death comes to all your circuits. Will it be slow and systematic or fast and brutal?" Considering, she circled it, "Tough decision. I've waited so long for this moment. Dreamed of it."     \nShowing her teeth, she began to roll up her sleeves.    \n"What," Roarke asked from the doorway that connected their work areas, "is that?"    \n"The former bane of my existence. The Antichrist of technology. Do we have a hammer?"   \nStudying the pile on the floor, he walked in. "Several, I imagine, of various types."   \n"I want all of them. Tiny little hammers, big, wallbangers, and everything in between."       \n"Might one ask why?"     \n"I'm going to beat this thing apart, byte by byte, until there's nothing left but dust from the last trembling chip."             \n"Hmmm." Roarke crouched down, examined the pitifully out-of-date system. "When did you haul this mess in here?"     \n"Just now. I had it in the car. Maybe I should use acid, just stand here and watch it hiss and dissolve. That could be good."      \nSaying nothing, Roarke took a small case out of his pocket, opened it, and chose a slim tool. With a few deft moves, he had the housing open.     \n"Hey! Hey! What're you doing?"   \n"I haven't seen anything like this in a decade. Fascinating. Look at this corrosion. Christ, this is a SOC chip system. And it's cross-wired."   \nWhen he began to fiddle, she rushed over and slapped at his hands. "Mine. I get to kill it."    \n"Get a grip on yourself," he said absently and delved deeper into the guts. "I'll take this into research."   \n"No. Uh-uh. I have to bust it apart. What if it breeds?”    \n? J.D. Robb, Witness in Death
“Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer; art is everything else.”     ? Donald Ervin Knuth, Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About
“No one messes around with a nerd’s computer and escapes unscathed.”   ? E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
“Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window”       ? Steve Wozniak
“What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.”   ? Steve Jobs
“I had been hobbled, perhaps even crippled by a pervasive internet society I had come to depend on and take for granted... hit enter and let Google, that twenty-first century Big Brother, take care of the rest.        \nIn the Derry of 1958, the most up-to-date computers were the size of small housing developments, and the local paper was no help. What did that leave? I remembered a sociology prof I’d had in college - a sarcastic old bastard - who used to say, When all else fails, give up and go to the library.”        \n? Stephen King, 11/22/63
“Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.    \nWe must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.  \nI have bought this wonderful machine — a computer ... it seems to me to be an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy.”    \n? Joseph Campbell
“Some people today are wandering generalities instead of meaningful specifics because they have failed to discover and mine the wealth of potentials in them.” \n? Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
“The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.”   \n? Jaron Lanier
“Something like missionary reductionism has happened to the internet with the rise of web 2.0. The strangeness is being leached away by the mush-making process. Individual web pages as they first appeared in the early 1990S had the flavor of personhood. MySpace preserved some of that flavor, though a process of regularized formatting had begun. Facebook went further, organizing people into multiple-choice identities, while Wikipedia seeks to erase point of view entirely.                                                                       \nIf a church or government were doing these things, it would feel authoritarian, but when technologists are the culprits, we seem hip, fresh, and inventive. People will accept ideas presented in technological form that would be abhorrent in any other form. It is utterly strange to hear my many old friends in the world of digital culture claim to be the true sons of the Renaissance without realizing that using computers to reduce individual expression is a primitive, retrograde activity, no matter how sophisticated your tools are.”    \n? Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget
“You see, unlike most writers today, I do not use a computer. I write the old-fashioned way: on the walls of caves.”      \n? Cuthbert Soup, Another Whole Nother Story
“When I was a kid, they had a saying, 'to err is human but to really fuck it up takes a computer.’ ”       \n? Benjamin R. Smith, Atlas
“Writing is a lot like making soup. My subconscious cooks the idea, but I have to sit down at the computer to pour it out.”       \n? Robin Wells
“One two, one two,   \nType a word or two.   \nArrow left, arrow right,    \nKeep those fingers nice and tight.   \nKeys up, Keys down,     \nMove those digits all around.   \nOne two, one two,   \nType a word or two.”  \n? Jazz Feylynn
“Ta ??µp???te? pe??????? t?s? ???µ?s???, ?s? ta ste?e?f????? s?????t?µata pe??????? µ??s??? ???a?a.”     ? Arno Allan Penzias
“?e? f?ß?µa? t??? ??e?t???????? ?p?????st??. F?ß?µa? t?? ???e??? t???.”    ? Isaac Asimov
“With software there are only two possibilites: either the users control the programme or the programme controls the users. If the programme controls the users, and the developer controls the programme, then the programme is an instrument of unjust power.”      ? Richard M. Stallman
“That doesn't upset too many people, but the fact that accessibility restrictions don't enter into the picture has caused more than one otherwise pacifistic soul to contemplate distinctly unpacifistic actions.”        ? Scott Meyers, Effective C++: 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs
“When I use a PC today I cannot understand why a machine with 1,000 times more processing power has a worse user response than the machine I was using in the late ’80s at Acorn,’ remarks Steve Furber. ‘Well, I do know why it is, but it still seems the wrong answer.”       ? Tom Lean, Electronic Dreams: How 1980s Britain Learned to Love the Computer
“A computer program can modify itself but it cannot violate its own instructions — it can at best change some parts of itself by *obeying* its own instructions.”  \n? Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
“With software there are only two possibilites: either the users control the programme or the programme controls the users. If the programme controls the users, and the developer controls the programme, then the programme is an instrument of unjust power.”   ? Richard Stallman
“You are not trapped in the box forever," Myrnin said, "as you well know. But I still need you, so you will simply have to stop your endless wailing and get on with things. If you want an escape, research your way out."     \n"Or you'll what?"            \nMyrnin's eyes snapped open, and he bared his fangs - not that he could bite the computer. It was just a reaction of frustration, Claire thought. "Or I'll disconnect your puzzle sets," he said, "and you can read the works of Bulwer-Lytton for entertainment for the next twenty years before I take pity on you.”      \n? Rachel Caine, Carpe Corpus
“That night I dreamt about the roses laid at the wrong feet—the feet of the nurse. Each bit of the dream was like a hyperlink. I pressed on one, wanting answers, and it took me to another. I could never get to the meaning at the bottom of any of the bits. When I reached for the petals of the roses, I was touching a metal seatbelt buckle in a coach, driving by night through a remote place, with a band of mist running parallel to the glass I leant against.”   \n? Olivia Sudjic, Sympathy
“I hope when this is done I'll be able to get back into my happy gardening vibe that was so healthy for me. I want to go back to my routine and my morning ritual with the compost, but it will probably be that my life will split in two. New Leaf Gardening in Wood Green will be happening in parallel to a fantasy that runs along the bottom of that screen like a ticker. Alice will be fine. Rabbit will stay up tonight, and every night. Resending and resending, reopening the page to see if she has responded, if anyone has. The spinning wheel will make my eyes hurt and everything else will go dark.”      \n? Olivia Sudjic, Sympathy
“You know that when your partner deletes their messages to a past lover after being accused of cheating, then it is likely that they were being unfaithful in some way.”    \n? Steven Magee
“Computers and mobile devices are becoming known for their inherent insecurities and the ability to damage the long term health of the users.”      \n? Steven Magee
“It's possible that Knight believed he was one of the few sane people left. He was confounded by the idea that passing the prime of your life in a cubicle, spending hours a day at a computer, in exchange for money, was considered acceptable, but relaxing in a tent in the woods was disturbed. Observing the trees was indolent; cutting them down was enterprising. What did Knight do for a living? He lived for a living.”      \n? Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
“A.I. might be straight out of science fiction, but it's going to turn into man's worst nightmare.”   \n? Anthony T. Hincks
“I also become the local computer nerd. The administration brings me in to fix all the computers, I create viruses to invade at a specific day and time. They call me in, and I eradicate my own virus, only to plant another one to go into effect a couple months later. They ask me why I can't just fix the computers once and for all. I tell them to quit going to porn sites and it will stay fixed. That shuts them up every time.”     \n? Darynda Jones, Brighter Than the Sun
“What goes up, must come down." Well, Issac Newton's law doesn't apply to the internet. That's what people don't realize. When you put something up, as long as there is an internet there will be that same stuff. \nWhen you're a senior citizen, what you uploaded to Facebook at a high school party will still be there. Whatever you upload to the internet, no matter how strong your passwords and security are, guaranteed the government or some advertising corporation will look at what you post someday. \nThe only law that applies to the internet is, "For every reaction, there is an equal and opposite reaction." Post a photograph and you'll get attention. Post your old scanned Kodak slides and family home movies, you'll get a nostalgia rush and you'll reunite people with better days. But post a bad thing, thinking you can go unnoticed, and you'll never be able to crawl out from underneath it.”      \n? Rebecca McNutt
“I really hate that I need my glasses while using my laptop. What I hate even more is that I need those glasses to be full of vodka at all times.  \n-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz”   \n? Karen Quan, liQUID PROse QUOtes
“Without requirements and design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file.”       \n? Louis Srygley
“Irony, we want our handwriting to look like typed fonts, and our computer fonts to look like handwritten text.”      \n? Vikrmn, Corpkshetra
“Theory is relevant to you because it shows you a new, simpler, and more elegant side of computers, which we normally consider to be complicated machines. The best computer designs and applications are conceived with elegance in mind. A theoretical course can heighten your aesthetic sense and help you build more beautiful systems.”   \n? Michael Sipser, Introduction to the Theory of Computation
“At the beginning of that interval a type-machine was a curiosity. The person who owned one was a curiosity, too. But now it is the other way about: the person who doesn't own one is a curiosity.”          \n? Mark Twain, The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories
“Where are you going?” I demanded.   \nHe looked over his shoulder at me with an exasperated sigh. “To my room, of course.”      \n“Can’t we write the paper down here?” I asked.       \nThe corners of Wesley’s mouth turned slightly upward as he hooked a finger over his belt. “We could, Duffy, but the writing will go much faster if I’m typing, and my computer’s upstairs. You’re the one who said you wanted to get this over with.”    \n? Kody Keplinger, The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend
“My novels are set in a global space and pace. However, I have never visited most of the places. \nI wrote my first book in London but the story took the reader to places in Mexico, Denmark and Russia, and carefully avoided London. I access these global locations with my feet planted in front of my computer. \nI will use my internet connection to carefully enter the streets of a foreign city and find out how long it will take my main character to get from the airport to the city center – and if there are any shortcuts on the way. \nI wanted to do something new. The world is becoming a global village and we have to understand these different cultures. There is a Danish culture, an Israeli culture and so on. So if you want to go to Denmark, then read the book.”    \n? Enock Maregesi
“It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells.”    \n? Mark Twain, The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories
“Check out the mouse on your computer the 2 button can be used as a "1" and as a "2" button which will mean it can do the both actions, so why do we have "1" and "2" as a buttons on the mouse??”      \n? Deyth Banger
“Windows 7 is on its way to being an obsolete product. Keeping it on your computer long term will leave you with an obsolete computer. Windows 10 has numerous problems, but lack of support soon is not one of them.”   \n? Steven Magee
“If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing.”    ? Claudio Encarnacion Montero
“The best thing ever done is just to sit on my computer and to watch there television, I decide when to stop and when to start. I decide what to be and what not to be.”        \n? Deyth Banger
“...Few more seconds....let's just check out this and this and this... one more minute.... OH, OH my god it's 12 P.M. and times has went so fast... (The Computer Effect!)”         \n? Deyth Banger
“France had recently switched to the metric system of measurement. This gave scientists a much-needed standardized system to measure and compare results, but it also required a whole new set of calculating tables.     \nThe sheer number of calculations was beyond what could be accomplished by all the mathematicians in France, so Riche established calculating 'factories' to manufacture logarithms the same way workers manufactured mercantile goods.      \nEach factory employed between 60 and 80 human 'computers.' But they weren’t trained mathematicians; they were mostly out-of-work hairdressers who had found their skill at constructing elaborate pompadours for aristocrats much less in demand after so many former clients lost their heads at the height of the French Revolution. Riche had hit upon a rote system of compiling results based on a set of given values and formulas, and the workers just cranked out the answers in what must have been the world’s first mathematical assembly line.    \nBabbage figured that if an army of untrained hairdressers could make the calculations, so could a computing 'engine.”   \n? Jennifer Ouellette
“USA schools know that computer electromagnetic interference (EMI) emissions, WiFi and campus cell towers are radiation poisoning the children and the government is determined to keep on doing it.”       \n? Steven Magee, Health Forensics
“Jede Datei hat etwas Einzigartiges, etwas, woran manschen an den Äußerlichkeiten erkennen kann, worum es sich handelt.”      \n? Bastian Scheefe, @Bastianoso: Eine Blog-Zeitreise von 2005 bis 2013
“It is reasonable to think that if you spend your days indoors under artificial lights, staring at a screen, sitting in computer electromagnetic interference (EMI) fields and exposed to radio waves, that you may eventually develop a strange form of radiation sickness.”   \n? Steven Magee
“People with Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) are known to put their computer equipment several feet away from them with a large monitor on a big font and they use a wired USB keyboard and mouse to control it.”  \n? Steven Magee, Curing Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity
“You can tell if a person is organized by checking his desktop.”      \n? Ali AlJa'bari
“The Mauna Kea night shift was an 18 hour night in wintertime at the 13,796 feet summit (before sunset to after sunrise) with insufficient time for adequate sleep before the next night shift. Night shift was between 5 and 8 nights long and we slept at 9,200 feet. We sat at a desk staring at four large computer monitors and a large cathode ray tube television. I would also use my Wi-Fi laptop computer. I would have extreme fatigue by the end of every night shift and have chapped lips which I now associate with exposure to the artificial light from the computer screens. A good day of sleep between shifts was rare and starting the next shift fatigued was normal.”    \n? Steven Magee
“Windows 10 on both an old 2011 upgraded computer and a new 2016 computer was an excruciating experience”    \n? Steven Magee
“12 Hours on the computer... sounds like I am vip... few people stay on computer so long or not big %.”      \n? Deyth Banger
“Computer are incredible coded, they fascinating me... as for sex... I don't need it, there is pornography so much that I won't finish watching... so far I won't...live so much on this planet to check out everything.”   \n? Deyth Banger
“After two months of horrible computer problems, I had concluded that the free Windows 10 installation was an unreliable lobotomized operating system as compared to Windows 7 on a 2011 HP G72-B50US laptop computer.”  \n? Steven Magee
“The trick with getting Windows 10 to work well on my 2011 Windows 7 laptop computer was to use a HDMI cable and plug it into a full High Definition (HD) 1920x1080 resolution computer monitor at 60Hz as the sole display.”    \n? Steven Magee
“Patients, beings who want to be rehabilitated, send me questions See? I answer them real fast, 1 2 3 done Like so You get?' Toby said, his pale green fingers clattering across the keyboard.       \n'I think so,' I said, shifting in my chair.        \n'Okay hear we go First question: I just moved to a new city and there's a school next door All the kids, every last student, wear the same clothes Are they all related Is this one of those mafia families I need to be careful around You know the answer? Toby asked, swiveling to face me.     \n'Perhaps,' I said after thinking a moment. It took a second to distinguish when the question ended and when Toby's remarks started.     \n'You sure, I can check real quick 1 2 3 I check that fast,' Toby said, his words zooming out of his mouth while Google search engine popped up on his computer screen.”   \n? K.M. Shea
“Eating organic for good health and spending your day sitting down using a wireless computer that is next to a WiFi router is a classic case of Yin & Yang.”       ? Steven Magee
“We should do this on computer," she said, chalking it carefully for the eighty-ninth time. "With a drawing pad."     \n"Nonsense. You're lucky I don't make you inscribe it with a stylus on a wax tablet, like the old days," Myrnin snorted. "Children. Spoiled children, always playing with the shinest toy."    \n"Computers are more efficient!"     \n"I can perform calculations on that abacus faster than you can solve them on your computer," Myrnin sneered.    \nOkay, now he was pissing her off. "Prove it!"   \n"What?"    \n"Prove it." She backed off on her tone, but Myrnin wasn't looking angry; he was looking strangely interested. He stared at her for a second in silence, and then he got the biggest, oddest smile she'd ever seen on the face of a vampire.     \n"All right," he said. "A contest. Computer versus abacus."        \nShe wasn't at all sure now that was a good idea, even if it had been her idea, essentially. "Um -- what do I win?" More importantly, what do I lose? Making bargains was a way of life in Morganville, and it was a lot like making deals with man-eating fairies. Better be careful what you ask for.       \n"Your freedom," he said solemnly. His eyes were wide and guileless, his too-young face shining with honesty. "I will tell Amelie you were not suited to the work. She'll let you go about your life, such as it is."     \nGood prize. Too good. Claire swallowed hard. "And if I lose?"     \n"Then I eat you," Myrnin said.”     \n? Rachel Caine, Midnight Alley
“Computers don't lie, but liars can compute.”   ? Terry Hayes, I Am Pilgrim
“Task complete. Shut it down."   \nUnable to comply, the computer responded.  \n"I finished."    \nInaccurate statement. Previous command stipulated all listed reports and evaluations must be complete before system rest. This command by Dallas, Lieutenant Eve, priority basis, can only be countermanded at her order by fire, terrorist attack, alien invasion or an open and active case requiring her attention ...    \nJesus, had she really programmed that? "I changed my mind."    \nPrevious command specifies changes of mind, fatigue, boredom, and other lame excuses not acceptable for countermand ...   \n"Bite me," Eve muttered.”     \n? J.D. Robb, New York to Dallas
“Trust the vibes you get, energy doesn’t lie.”    ? Genereux Philip
“Software testing is a sport like hunting, it's bughunting.”    ? Amit Kalantri
“The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us to making available what we are already acquainted with.   \n[Describing Charles Babbage's machine.]”    \n? Ada King Lovelace
“The spectacular thing about Johnny [von Neumann] was not his power as a mathematician, which was great, or his insight and his clarity, but his rapidity; he was very, very fast. And like the modern computer, which no longer bothers to retrieve the logarithm of 11 from its memory (but, instead, computes the logarithm of 11 each time it is needed), Johnny didn't bother to remember things. He computed them. You asked him a question, and if he didn't know the answer, he thought for three seconds and would produce and answer.”      \n? Paul R. Halmos
“How does it feel to be seven thousand years old?"   \n"That depends."   \n"On what?"   \n"On how I want to feel.”    \n? Greg Egan, Permutation City
“There's no reason that anything should ever become obsolete, whether it be VHS tapes, celluloid film, print books or even the previous versions of a computer operating system, as long as even just one person still wants them around. After all, one thing leads to another, old inventions are the basis for new ones, inventors and designers and scientists and hobbyists worked hard to create all these things, so don't they deserve some respect, enough not to have their ideas buried in the dust by the latest trends and fads?”  \n? Rebecca McNutt
“If you control the code, you control the world. This is the future that awaits us.”       \n? Marc Goodman, Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable, and What We Can Do About It
“If I was meant to be controlled, I would have come with a remote.”   \n? Genereux Philip
“The chip that functions abnormally will be desoldered, as they say.”   \n? Charles Stross, Saturn's Children
“If ur laptop doesnt smell like fire then ur losing.”   \n? Genereux Philip
“I often calculate odds on horse races; the civil service computermen frequently program such requests. But the results are so at variance with expectations that I have concluded either that the data is too meager, or the horses or riders are not honest. Possibly all three.”       \n? Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
“Wonderful craftsmanship, Simon decided with the expert eye of one who had played enough computer games to know art when he saw it.”        \n? Sorin Suciu, The Scriptlings
“Zues?" I said.     \n"His computer. He named it." Then she whispered conspiratorially, "He acts like it's a person."  \n"I do not," he said as we walked down the hall toward his room.      \n"You gave it a birthday party," she said.         \nGrayson stopped walking for a moment. "Annual hard-drive maintenance and software upgrades do not count as a birthday party."   \n"No," she said. "But singing 'Happy Birthday' to it does."    \nHe took a deep breath. They've obviously been through this before. "You know I was testing the new voice-recognition software."        \nNatalie looked at me. "Birthday party.”   \n? James Ponti, Dead City
“Computers can not dream, they can not visualize – That is your part and that’s how you create, innovate and make difference.”    ? Ravindra Shukla, A Maverick Heart: Between Love and Life
“Bitch, if I ain't a G, I'm an OG”     ? Genereux Philip
“It's proper Netiquette to view in-App webpages in a mobile browser for better security. NetworkEtiquette.net”        ? David Chiles
“Books of silver; books of bone; and yet the strangest thing you see in all your years at Galvanic is a boy in a ski-mask, sitting in a basement, using a computer.”      ? Robin Sloan, Ajax Penumbra 1969
“The world is changing rapidly, and everyone changes along with the world. Discoveries is now becoming rampant; intellectually, technologically,etc, each having its advantage and disadvantage.”     ? Michael Bassey Johnson
“As additional precautions, Kranz requested that a two-hundred-foot radio antenna (called a deep-space dish) in Australia be added to the global network tracking and communicating with the spacecraft, and that additional computers at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland be what he called "cranked up" -- made ready for use. He also telephoned the Real Time Computer Complex on the ground floor of the Operations Wing to ask that an additional I.B.M. computer be brought onto the line.”     ? Henry S.F. Cooper Jr., XIII: The Apollo Flight That Failed
“What is the next unit of time after milliseconds?”     \n“Microseconds.”  \n“Correct. What is the next?”    \n“Nanoseconds.”    \n“There you go,” the professor revealed. “Computers and androids like Christmas operate on nanoseconds. A nanosecond to them is a precision unit like a millisecond to you and I. Now try to think what doing something for fifteen minutes is to them. A millisecond is one million nanoseconds. One second is one billion nanoseconds. A minute is sixty billion nanoseconds. Fifteen minutes equals to nine hundred billion nanoseconds. Multiply that by a million for scale - that's the disparity between a human precision unit and a computer precision unit we first talked about. \nWhat do you get? Nine hundred quadrillion nanoseconds. That is ten thousand four hundred seventeen days, one thousand four hundred eighty-eight weeks, three hundred forty-two months. That is twenty-eight point five years. Does that seem like ages to you or what?” (What constitutes "ages" to machines)”    \n? Alan Chains, Return to Island X
“I'm the G when you spell OG”     \n? Genereux Philip
“Ci siamo trovati tutti coinvolti in una discussione sul genere di software che progetterebbero i cani, se potessero farlo. Secondo Marty, si tratterebbe di programmi per delimitare il territorio, con simulatori di pipì e interfacce lappabili. Antonella ha tirato fuori l'idea di un OssoFinder. Ad Harold è venuta in mente una cuccia fatta col CAD, tutto altamente cartone animato/sensoriale, con un sacco di elementi visuali.   \nPoi naturalmente è saltata fuori la questione felina del catware. Antonella ha suggerito un programma di segreteria personale in grado di dire al mondo: "No, non voglio essere coccolato. E per favore, controlla tutte le telefonate prima di passarmele". Io ho suggerito un programma che dorme tutto il tempo”      \n? Douglas Coupland, Microserfs
“As history has shown, any new computing device capable of running a game will, by hook or by crook, soon have them available. (aka, the "Loguidice Law")”    \n? Bill Loguidice, Vintage Game Consoles: An Inside Look at Apple, Atari, 
“As history has shown, any new computing device capable of running a game will, by hook or by crook, soon have them available. (aka, the "Loguidice Law")”   \n? Bill Loguidice Matt Barton
“The computer may be incompetent in itself--that is, unable to do the work for which it was designed. This kind of incompetence can never be eliminated, because the Peter Principle applies in the plants where computers are designed and manufactured.”      ? Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle
“The storage capacity of the average human brain is two-hundred and fifty-six exabytes. However, the average adult human only uses approximately one billionth of that storage space effectively. This means my knowledge capacity is approximately three thousand trillion times that of your average human.”    \n? Michael Monroe, Afterlife
“I am writing this on a computer that I can’t imagine living without. This is an alarming thought, the extent to which I have organised my life around a metal box full of wires (and, via the Internet, to many other metal boxes full of wires). Someone told me most of the Internet is stored in a warehouse somewhere in North Carolina. I don’t know enough about technology to gauge if this is true, but it made me realise how little I actually understand about the world I inhabit. The world of Dr Wong’s childhood was significantly smaller than mine, but he understood every square inch of it.”      \n? Jeremy Tiang, Durians Are Not the Only Fruit
“They’re called sock puppets. We create armies of artificial online personas – user accounts that espouse views certain interested parties want espoused. We flood forums, online comment sections, social media. ... It’s amazing what a few people and a little money can accomplish online. Our puppets have turned whole elections. … Everything the public sees is managed. If there’s a valuable brand to protect – whether it’s a person or a dish soap – these fuckers are out there protecting it, shaping the narrative. I mean… who the hell follows dish soap on Twitter? How does anyone believe that shit’s real? (p. 292-294)”  \n? Daniel Suarez, Kill Decision
“Finally Jobs proposed Apple Computer. “I was on one of my fruitarian diets,” he explained. “I had just come back from the apple farm. It sounded fun, spirited, and not intimidating. Apple took the edge off the word ‘computer.’ Plus, it would get us ahead of Atari in the phone book”       \n? Steve Jobs
“A mind is a simulation that simulates itself.”       \n? Erol Ozan
“Yet the possibility of information storage, beyond what men and governments ever had before, can make available at the touch of a button a man's total history (including remarks put on his record by his kindergarten teacher about his ability and character). And with the computer must be placed the modern scientific technical capability which exists for wholesale monitoring of telephone, cable, Telex and microwave transmissions which carry much of today's spoken and written communications. The combined use of the technical capability of listening in on all these forms of communications with the high-speed computer literally leaves no place to hide and little room for privacy.”    \n? Francis A. Schaeffer, How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture
“I know for a fact that no matter where I go, the memory and the suffering of not being with you will cripple me. I will go to work, fire up my PC, only to check if you're online. I will hover the pointer to your name, it will pop your contact details--just the contact details, no photo, no one-liners, no sign of what we used to have--but I shall linger and stare at it for hours. I will attempt to start a chat, but will close it without even a word to type. I will try to divert my thoughts back to work. But will fail. I will always go back to you. One hour to another, it's 5 PM. I pack my things, unproductive for the day and smile. I'm doing that again tomorrow and the next.”      \n? CSTPimentel
“All right," she snaps at the computer. "I get it. I'm slowing down! Gods!"   \n"Activating Generic Ocular Display Sequence. G.O.D.S."       \nThe front of her shuttle goes transparent and Vol experiences a nauseating wave of vertigo.     \n"No, that's not what I meant! It's an expression! What the hell?"     \n"Error. Request must be made in the form of a command."       \n"Oh, f*** you."    \n"Error. Command not recognised."      \n"I'm not surprised," Vol mutters.”   \n? Nenia Campbell, Endgame
“Database Management System [Origin: Data + Latin basus "low, mean, vile, menial, degrading, ounterfeit."] A complex set of interrelational data structures allowing data to be lost in many convenient sequences while retaining a complete record of the logical relations between the missing items.    \n-- From The Devil's DP Dictionary”    \n? Stan Kelly Bootle
“Most of everything is very little of not very much at all.”    ? Richard Edward Harding, The Summerhouse Project: Cryptic Visions
“Computer business are like fruit market on a Saturday night. If you don't sell it at five o'clock, the price is down tomorrow because the fruit's no good the next day. You'd better sell it now.”    ? Brian Bagnall, On the Edge: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore
“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”  \n? Rob Siltanen
“Two things you should know about me; The first is that I am deeply suspicious of people in general. It is my nature to expect the worst of them. And the second is that I am unexpectedly good with computers.”    \n? Veronica Roth, Divergent
“I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on the Internet. Three companies have offered to put books by me on the Net, and I said, 'If you can make something that has a nice jacket, nice paper with that nice smell, then we'll talk.' \nAll the computer can give you is a manuscript. People don't want to read manuscripts. They want to read books. Books smell good. They look good. You can press it to your bosom. You can carry it in your pocket.”     \n? Ray Bradbury
“I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.”      \n? Stephen Hawking
“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”      \n? Rob Siltanen
“I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.”   \n? Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party
“Any idiot can put up a website.”    \n? Patricia Briggs, Blood Bound
“Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.”     \n? Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
“Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.”   \n? Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
“Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly. ”     \n? Roger Ebert
“No one messes around with a nerd’s computer and escapes unscathed.”   \n? E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
“Well, Mr. Frankel, who started this program, began to suffer from the computer disease that anybody who works with computers now knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is you *play* with them. They are so wonderful. You have these switches - if it's an even number you do this, if it's an odd number you do that - and pretty soon you can do more and more elaborate things if you are clever enough, on one machine.     \nAfter a while the whole system broke down. Frankel wasn't paying any attention; he wasn't supervising anybody. The system was going very, very slowly - while he was sitting in a room figuring out how to make one tabulator automatically print arc-tangent X, and then it would start and it would print columns and then bitsi, bitsi, bitsi, and calculate the arc-tangent automatically by integrating as it went along and make a whole table in one operation.     \nAbsolutely useless. We *had* tables of arc-tangents. But if you've ever worked with computers, you understand the disease - the *delight* in being able to see how much you can do. But he got the disease for the first time, the poor fellow who invented the thing.”   \n? Richard Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
“Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.”    \n? Charles Stross, The Atrocity Archives
“A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention with the possible exceptions of handguns and Tequila.”   \n? Mitch Ratcliffe
“There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary numerals, and those who don't.”    \n? Ian Stewart, Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities
“Now, 75 years [after To Kill a Mockingbird], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.         \n[Open Letter, O Magazine, July 2006]”   \n? Harper Lee
“That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.”    \n? Larry Niven
“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.”       \n? Scott Douglas, Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian
“Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference; we should each be treated with appropriate respect.”   \n? Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two
“Computers don't kill books; people do.”     \n? Douglas Rushkoff
“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.”     \n? Douglas Adams
“Man is a slow, sloppy, and brilliant thinker; computers are fast, accurate, and stupid.”     \n? John Pfeiffer
“Those who can imagine anything, can create the impossible.”    \n? Alan Turing
“I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.”        \n? Dave Barry
“Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.”    \n? Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
“Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes”    \n? Edsger W. Dijkstra
“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…”      \n? Steve Wozniak
“The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.”    \n? Earl Warren
“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.”  \n? Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget
“For most people, home we represented by four walls and a roof. Not for Noa. She preferred a motherboard to a mother, a keyboard to house keys. Nothing was more comforting than the hum of a spinning hard drive.”   \n? Michelle Gagnon, Don't Turn Around
“But the Turing test cuts both ways. You can't tell if a machine has gotten smarter or if you've just lowered your own standards of intelligence to such a degree that the machine seems smart. If you can have a conversation with a simulated person presented by an AI program, can you tell how far you've let your sense of personhood degrade in order to make the illusion work for you?    \nPeople degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time. Before the crash, bankers believed in supposedly intelligent algorithms that could calculate credit risks before making bad loans. We ask teachers to teach to standardized tests so a student will look good to an algorithm. We have repeatedly demonstrated our species' bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good. Every instance of intelligence in a machine is ambiguous.       \nThe same ambiguity that motivated dubious academic AI projects in the past has been repackaged as mass culture today. Did that search engine really know what you want, or are you playing along, lowering your standards to make it seem clever? While it's to be expected that the human perspective will be changed by encounters with profound new technologies, the exercise of treating machine intelligence as real requires people to reduce their mooring to reality.”   \n? Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget
“Asked about the fact that Apple's iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs joked, 'It's like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell.”    \n? Walter Isaacson
“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.”   \n? Steve Wozniak
“By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.”     \n? Eliezer Yudkowsky
“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.”   \n? Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics
“The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.”        \n? Wernher von Braun
“These problems have been here so long that the only way I’ve been able to function at all is by learning to ignore them. Else I would be in a constant state of panic, unable to think or act constructively.”    \n? Mark Bowden, Worm: The First Digital World War
“artificial intellegance is no match for natural stupidity”     \n? Albert Einstein
“The intentions of the cybernetic totalist tribe are good. They are simply following a path that was blazed in earlier times by well-meaning Freudians and Marxists - and I don't mean that in a pejorative way. \nI'm thinking of the earliest incarnations of Marxism, for instance, before Stalinism and Maoism killed millions.    \nMovements associated with Freud and Marx both claimed foundations in rationality and the scientific understanding of the world. Both perceived themselves to be at war with the weird, manipulative fantasies of religions. And yet both invented their own fantasies that were just as weird.   \nThe same thing is happening again. A self-proclaimed materialist movement that attempts to base itself on science starts to look like a religion rather quickly. It soon presents its own eschatology and its own revelations about what is really going on - portentous events that no one but the initiated can appreciate. The Singularity and the noosphere, the idea that a collective consciousness emerges from all the users on the web, echo Marxist social determinism and Freud's calculus of perversions. We rush ahead of skeptical, scientific inquiry at our peril, just like the Marxists and Freudians.”   \n? Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget
“Technology offers us a unique opportunity, though rarely welcome, to practice patience.”     ? Allan Lokos, Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
“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.”       ? George Friedman, The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
“Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.”    ? Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget
“... we have created a man with not one brain but two. ... This new brain is intended to control the biological brain. ... The patient's biological brain is the peripheral terminal -- the only peripheral terminal -- for the new computer. ... And therefore the patient's biological brain, indeed his whole body, has become a terminal for the new computer. We have created a man who is one single, large, complex computer terminal. The patient is a read-out device for the new computer, and is helpless to control the readout as a TV screen is helpless to control the information presented on it.”     ? Michael Crichton, The Terminal Man
“Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective computer-mediated communication.”        ? Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
“If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside. ”      ? Robert Cringely
“Computers are heaven-sent when they work and hell-spawn when they don't.    \nThere's just not much middle ground when it comes to technology.”      \n? Dani Harper
“Turing presented his new offering in the form of a thought experiment, based on a popular Victorian parlor game. A man and a woman hide, and a judge is asked to determine which is which by relying only on the texts of notes passed back and forth.          \nTuring replaced the woman with a computer. Can the judge tell which is the man? If not, is the computer conscious? Intelligent? Does it deserve equal rights?     \nIt's impossible for us to know what role the torture Turing was enduring at the time played in his formulation of the test. But it is undeniable that one of the key figures in the defeat of fascism was destroyed, by our side, after the war, because he was gay. No wonder his imagination pondered the rights of strange creatures.”   \n? Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget
“If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind increasing interest in computational interpretations of mind is an equally nervous preoccupation with the self as machine.”        \n? Sherry Turkle
“The attribution of intelligence to machines, crowds of fragments, or other nerd deities obscures more than it illuminates. When people are told that a computer is intelligent, they become prone to changing themselves in order to make the computer appear to work better, instead of demanding that the computer be changed to become more useful.”       \n? Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget
“What about the contacts your mum had?” his dad asked.  \n“I rang and spoke to four very polite computers who gave me all these options and then cut out on me. Then I tried the post office, because they were advertising, and I spoke to another computer. Very rude, that one. Don’t think it recognized ‘Are you shitting me?’ as an option.”  \n“You know why that is?”    \n“Why is that, Dominic?” Tom had asked drolly, because he knew he was going to be told why.   \n“Because we don’t live in a society anymore, Tom. We live in an economy. We’re not citizens. We’re customers. That’s what this government’s done to us.”    \n? Melina Marchetta, The Piper's Son
“This digital revolutionary still believes in most of the lovely deep ideals that energized our work so many years ago. At the core was a sweet faith in human nature. If we empowered individuals, we believed, more good than harm would result.       \nThe way the internet has gone sour since then is truly perverse. The central faith of the web's early design has been superseded by a different faith in the centrality of imaginary entities epitomized by the idea that the internet as a whole is coming alive and turning into a superhuman creature.           \nThe designs guided by this new, perverse kind of faith put people back in the shadows. The fad for anonymity has undone the great opening-of-everyone's-windows of the 1990s. While that reversal has empowered sadists to a degree, the worst effect is a degradation of ordinary people.”    \n? Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget
“The I.B.M. machine has no ethic of its own; what it does is enable one or two people to do the computing work that formerly required many more people. If people often use it stupidly, it's their stupidity, not the machine's, and a return to the abacus would not exorcise the failing. People can be treated as drudges just as effectively without modern machines.”   \n? William H. Whyte, The Organization Man: The Book That Defined a Generation
“Information wants to be free.' So goes the saying. Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, seems to have said it first.   \nI say that information doesn't deserve to be free.       \nCybernetic 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?   \n...       \nInformation is alienated experience.”    \n\n? Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget
“... there was one new metallic monstrosity stacked in one corner that she hadn’t seen the last time she was a visitor to his strange chamber, it appeared to be a mass of hard drives all fused together, but they looked too sophisticated to be merely hard drives.    \n“What on earth is that?”     \n“That’s my Kung Fu,” he said proudly, patting the top of the futuristic-looking stack.      \n“Is that what you wanted to show me?”      \n“No, but it’s impressive, isn’t it?”    \n“If you say so.”    \nSteves sighed and shook his head, so few people could appreciate the intellectual complexity of an almost untraceable hacking device.”   \n? E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
“Immaterial as water, too vast for any mortal apprehension, the Web's outstanding qualities allow us to confuse the ungraspable with the eternal.”  \n? Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
“Forget UNIX - it will be gone in 5 years.”    \n? Tom Jermoluk
“A file on a hard disk does indeed contain information of the kind that objectively exists. The fact that the bits are discernible instead of being scrambled into mush - the way heat scrambles things - is what makes them bits.  \nBut if the bits can potentially mean something to someone, they can only do so if they are experienced. When that happens, a commonality of culture is enacted between the storer and the retriever of the bits. Experience is the only process that can de-alienate information.      \nInformation of the kind that purportedly wants to be free is nothing but a shadow of our own minds, and wants nothing on its own. It will not suffer if it doesn't get what it wants.     \nBut if you want to make the transition from the old religion, where you hope God will give you an afterlife, to the new religion, where you hope to become immortal by getting uploaded into a computer, then you have to believe information is real and alive. So for you, it will be important to redesign human institutions like art, the economy, and the law to reinforce the perception that information is alive. You demand that the rest of us live in your new conception of a state religion. You need us to deify information to reinforce your faith.”     \n? Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget
“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.”      \n? Orson Scott Card, The Lost Gate
“If we are lucky, they were never retarded enough to create computer viruses and will have no such things as firewalls and security like we have. If they have never experienced a full blown computer failure we'll introduce them to the concept”      \n? Thomas Wilson
“My knowledge of computers begins and ends with hit power switch, magic box comes on.”    ? Claudia Gray, Ten Thousand Skies Above You
“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 than people in North America, all with with personal photos, videos, apps, and chats. There were dozens of dating sites, an immersive universe called 2nd Life that boasted a country-sized GDP, a slew of viruses, obnoxious advertising, more than a billion photos of naked women, and seventy-two hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute. This was the environment where the friendship flourished.”      \n? Jake Vander Ark, The Day I Wore Purple
“The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.”     ? Nathaniel S. Borenstein
“Computers are one of the products in the USA that appear to be unregulated by the government which leaves consumers unprotected from flawed devices.”    ? Steven Magee
“Therapies administered included but were not limited to: turning things off, then on again; picking them up a couple of inches and then dropping them; turning off nonessential appliances in this and other rooms; removing lids and wiggling circuit boards; extracting small contaminants, such as insects and their egg cases, with nonconducting chopsticks; cable-wiggling; incense-burning; putting folded-up pieces of paper beneath table legs; drinking tea and sulking; invoking unseen powers; sending runners to other rooms, buildings, or precincts with exquisitely calligraphed notes and waiting for them to come back carrying spare parts in dusty, yellowed cardboard boxes; and a similarly diverse suite of troubleshooting techniques in the realm of software.”    \n? Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
“The real nightmare, worse than the one in which the Big Machine wants to kill you, is the one in which it sees you as irrelevant, or not even as a discrete thing to know.”      ? Benjamin H. Bratton, The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty
“In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.” ? John Dvorak
“There’s no silver bullet solution with cyber security, a layered defense is the only viable defense”     ? James Scott
“We need a cybersecurity renaissance in this Country that promotes cyber hygiene and a security centric corporate culture applied and continuously reinforced by peer pressure”     ? James Scott
“I'm proud of it. Apart from marking the first occasion when I used my talent on behalf of other people without being asked and without caring whether I was rewarded--which was a major breakthrough in itself--the job was a pure masterpiece. Working on it, I realized in my guts how an artist or an author can get high on the creative act. The poker who wrote Precipice's original tapeworm was pretty good, but you could theoretically have killed it without shutting down the net--that is, at the cost of losing thirty or forty billion bits of data. Which I gather they were just about prepared to do when I showed up. But mine...Ho, no! That, I cross my heart, cannot be killed without DISMANTLING the net.”          ? John Brunner, The Shockwave Rider
“Platforms don't look like how they work and don't work like how they look.”    ? Benjamin H. Bratton, The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty
“Remember, when you connect with another computer, you're connecting to every computer that computer has connected to.”    ? Dennis Miller
“I am not angry at Microsoft, as they did give me Windows 10 for free! I do feel a little misled about its reliability on older computers never certified for its installation by the manufacturer though.”     ? Steven Magee
“When computers are able to imagine, then humanity will get its death notice.”  ? Debasish Mridha
“Comparable specification Windows 10 computers from multiple manufacturers can have very different performance between them.”     ? Steven Magee
“I later became more interested in equal rights for women in the work place because of what was happening at IBM. One of the women at Remington Rand had previously been a system service girl for IBM during the war. After a system was installed, a system service girl would go out and show the users how it worked. She was the liaison between the users and the computer company. She was married and had been fired to make room for a returning veteran. When the war ended, IBM rehired all of its former employees who had left to join the military, then fired all of the married women with jobs that could be filled by men.”  ? Jean Jennings Bartik
“Can they love? Or is it a bit of code meant to get a reaction from humans? Can anyone tell real love, in a bot or in a human?”     ? Judd Trichter, Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
“Historians will remember the first year of Microsoft Windows 10 for its willful vandalism of many computers through the release of a flawed operating system (OS) and mandatory flaky automatic updates.”      ? Steven Magee
“Beware of men who name their products with the initials of their own character.”        ? Mel Croucher
“The History of computers is amazing... people which tell the story are looking like they are having fun.”   ? Deyth Banger
“The computer brings out the uptight perfectionist in us- we start editing ideas before we have them.”     ? Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
“This sort of information gathering is precisely what we call play. And the important function of play is thus revealed: it permits us to gain, without any particular future application in mind, a holistic understanding of the world, which is both a complement of and a preparation for later analytical activities.”      ? Carl Sagan, Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human 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 flies in the laboratory.”  ? Carl Sagan, Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
“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 devising computers and programs at the edge of machine intelligence.”    ? Carl Sagan, Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
“Computers and mobile devices are becoming known for their inherent insecurities and the ability to damage the long term health of the users.”    ? Steven Magee
“The human mind isn’t a computer; it cannot progress in an orderly fashion down a list of candidate moves and rank them by a score down to the hundredth of a pawn the way a chess machine does. Even the most disciplined human mind wanders in the heat of competition. This is both a weakness and a strength of human cognition. Sometimes these undisciplined wanderings only weaken your analysis. Other times they lead to inspiration, to beautiful or paradoxical moves that were not on your initial list of candidates.”     \n? Garry Kasparov, Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins
“Will 'Artificial Intelligence' end up being as stupid as the rest of us?”   \n? Anthony T.Hnicks
“Turn your diodes this way and pulse...”  ? Neil Leckman
“S.M."   \nSocial Media or Social Menace?     \nI'll leave it to you to work out.”  \n? Anthony T. Hincks
“When artificial intelligence comes of age, the first thing it's going to do is get rid of the inefficient parts.  \nAnd guess who that will be!   \nAnd what will happen to us?   \nWell, to find out the answer to that question all you have to do is see what we do with all of our unwanted rubbish.”  \n? Anthony T. Hincks
“Never presume to know a person based on the one dimensional window of the internet. A soul can’t be defined by critics, enemies or broken ties with family or friends. Neither can it be explained by posts or blogs that lack facial expressions, tone or insight into the person’s personality and intent. Until people “get that”, we will forever be a society that thinks Beautiful Mind was a spy movie and every stranger is really a friend on Facebook.”   \n? Shannon L. Alder
“now it’s computers and more computers     \nand soon everybody will have one,  \n3-year-olds will have computers       \nand everybody will know everything   \nabout everybody else   \nlong before they meet them.     \nnobody will want to meet anybody    \nelse ever again   \nand everybody will be \na recluse  \nlike I am now.”        \n? Charles Bukowski, The Continual Condition: Poems
“Just like the notion of "Internet natives", who have never known a world without Internet access, we, who have lived our entire lives with video games, can be known as "video game natives.”    ? Alexei Maxim Russell, The Classic Gamer's Bible
“In another thirty to fifty years, the demand for cheap labor will have produced even more machines over the employment of actual humans. And in that time frame, humans will have lost their voice, their power, all freedoms, and all worth. It is inevitable that machines will one day become the ultimate enemies of mankind. We are not evolving or progressing with our technology, only regressing. Technology is our friend today, but will be our enemy in the future.”    ? Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“And when I am in a new place, because I see everything, it is like when a computer is doing too many things at the same time and the central processor unit is blocked up and there isn't any space left to think about other things. And when I am in a new place and there are lots of people there it is even harder because people are not like cows and flowers and grass and they can talk to you and do things that you don't expect, so you have to notice everything that is in the place, and also you have to notice things that might happen as well. And sometimes when I am in a new place and there are lots of people there it is like a computer crashing and I have to close my eyes and put my hands over my ears and groan, which is like pressing CTRL + ALT + DEL and shutting down programs and turning the computer off and rebooting so that I can remember what I am doing and where I am meant to be going.”     \n? Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
“For most digital-age writers, writing is rewriting. We grope, cut, block, paste, and twitch, panning for gold onscreen by deleting bucketloads of crap. Our analog ancestors had to polish every line mentally before hammering it out mechanically. Rewrites cost them months, meters of ink ribbon, and pints of Tippex. Poor sods.”      ? David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks
“It is inevitable that machines will one day become the ultimate enemies of mankind. We are not evolving or progressing with our technology, only regressing. Technology is our friend today, but will be our enemy in the future.”       ? Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“In the short run, technology many be more efficient than man, but it will never be perfect. Every piece of equipment will eventually reveal an error code. In the long run, man will never be perfect, but prove to be more reliable than technology.”     ? Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Let us return for a moment to Lady Lovelace’s objection, which stated that the machine can only do what we tell it to do. \nOne could say that a man can “inject” an idea into the machine, and that it will respond to a certain extent and then drop into quiescence, like a piano string struck by a hammer. Another simile would be an atomic pile of less than critical size: an injected idea is to correspond to a neutron entering the pile from without. \nEach such neutron will cause a certain disturbance which eventually dies away. If, however, the size of the pile is sufficiently increased, the disturbance caused by such an incoming neutron will very likely go on and on increasing until the whole pile is destroyed. \nIs there a corresponding phenomenon for minds, and is there one for machines? There does seem to be one for the human mind. The majority of them seem to be “sub-critical,” i.e. to correspond in this analogy to piles of sub-critical size. \nAn idea presented to such a mind will on average give rise to less than one idea in reply. A smallish proportion are supercritical. An idea presented to such a mind may give rise to a whole “theory” consisting of secondary, tertiary and more remote ideas. Animals’ minds seem to be very definitely sub-critical. Adhering to this analogy we ask, “Can a machine be made to be super-critical?”    \n? Alan Turing, Computing machinery and intelligence
“All perception is the result of electrical impulses in the brain - the world of the individual is tantamount to a highly advanced computer running and analyzing programs in its working memory.”    ? Kevin Michel, Moving Through Parallel Worlds To Achieve Your Dreams
“Let us return for a moment to Lady Lovelace’s objection, which stated that the machine can only do what we tell it to do. \nOne could say that a man can "inject" an idea into the machine, and that it will respond to a certain extent and then drop into quiescence, like a piano string struck by a hammer. \nAnother simile would be an atomic pile of less than critical size: an injected idea is to correspond to a neutron entering the pile from without. \nEach such neutron will cause a certain disturbance which eventually dies away. \nIf, however, the size of the pile is sufficiently increased, the disturbance caused by such an incoming neutron will very likely go on and on increasing until the whole pile is destroyed. Is there a corresponding phenomenon for minds, and is there one for machines? There does seem to be one for the human mind. The majority of them seem to be "sub critical," i.e. to correspond in this analogy to piles of sub-critical size. An idea presented to such a mind will on average give rise to less than one idea in reply. \nA smallish proportion are supercritical. An idea presented to such a mind may give rise to a whole "theory" consisting of secondary, tertiary and more remote ideas. Animals’ minds seem to be very definitely sub-critical. Adhering to this analogy we ask, "Can a machine be made to be super-critical?”    \n? Alan Turing, Computing machinery and intelligence
“All computers expect to be yelled at. There's not a single computer in the whole world that hasn't been sworn at. Even the discreet little VDU with the crossed keys monogram on the keyboard that sits on the Pope's desk in his office in the Vatican has in its time heard language that'd make a Marine blush.”    \n? Tom Holt
“I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.”    \n? Issac Asimov
“It can be argued that the computer is humanity’s attempt to replicate the human brain. This is perhaps an unattainable goal. However, unattainable goals often lead to outstanding accomplishment.”     \n? Zubair Saleem Fazal
“Bad economics teaches that computers can design markets. Good economics teaches that markets can design computers.”   \n? Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski, The Pith of Life: Aphorisms in Honor of Liberty
“We are about to study the idea of a computational process. Computational processes are abstract beings that inhabit computers. As they evolve, processes manipulate other abstract things called data. The evolution of a process is directed by a pattern of rules called a program. People create programs to direct processes. In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.           \nA computational process is indeed much like a sorcerer's idea of a spirit. It cannot be seen or touched. It is not composed of matter at all. However, it is very real. It can perform intellectual work. It can answer questions. It can affect the world by disbursing money at a bank or by controlling a robot arm in a factory. The programs we use to conjure processes are like a sorcerer's spells. They are carefully composed from symbolic expressions in arcane and esoteric programming languages that prescribe the tasks we want our processes to perform.   \nA computational process, in a correctly working computer, executes programs precisely and accurately. Thus, like the sorcerer's apprentice, novice programmers must learn to understand and to anticipate the consequences of their conjuring. Even small errors (usually called bugs or glitches) in programs can have complex and unanticipated consequences.”    \n? Harold Abelson, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
“It is the thesis of this book that society can only be understood through a study of the messages and the communication facilities which belong to it; and that in the future development of these messages and communication facilities, messages between man and machines, between machines and man, and between machine and machine, are destined to play an ever-increasing part.”     \n? Norbert Wiener
“All the computers in the world are on a network. They’re linked by our cuffs. But I’m a computer. Jack’s a computer—Akilah—PA Young—all the cy-clones. We’re all computers.    \nYou know the great thing about computers?   \nThey can be hacked.”     \n? Beth Revis, The Body Electric
“I have only touched one other computer at my friend Marissa's house, and found the experience disconcerting. There was something sinister about the green letters and numbers that flashed on the screen as the computer booted up, and I hated the way Marissa stopped answering questions or noticing me the second it was turned on.”     \n? Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
“Procedural code (code using data structures) makes it easy to add new functions without changing the existing data structures. OO code, on the other hand, makes it easy to add new classes without changing existing functions.”    \n? Robert C. Martin
“The computer may be incompetent in itself--that is, unable to do the work for which it was designed. This kind of incompetence can never be eliminated, because the Peter Principle applies in the plants where computers are designed and manufactured.”    \n? Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle
“The complement is also true: Procedural code makes it hard to add new data structures because all the functions must change. OO code makes it hard to add new functions because all the classes must change.”   \n? Robert C. Martin
“We refuse to turn off our computers, turn off our phones, log off Facebook, and just sit in silence, because in those moments we might actually have to face up to who we really are. We fear silence like it's an invisible monster, gnawing at us, ripping us open, and showing us our dissatisfaction. Silence is terrifying.”     \n? Jefferson Bethke, Jesus > Religion: Why He Is So Much Better Than Trying Harder, Doing More, and Being Good Enough
“HIs chess-playing methods did the same thing — as did the games on the Colossi — and posed the question as to where a line could be drawn between the 'intelligent' and the 'mechanical'. His view, expressed in terms of the imitation principle, was that there was no such line, and neither did he ever draw a sharp distinction between the 'states of mind' approach and the 'instruction note' approach to the problem of reconciling the appearance of freedom and of determinism.”     \n? Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma
“I think, however, the current fascination with the computer and its principal product, information, deserves a more critical response. This is because the computer does so ingeniously mimic human intelligence that it may significantly shake our confidence in the uses of the mind. And it is the mind that must think about all things, including the computer.”     \n? Theodore Roszak, The Cult of Information: A Neo-Luddite Treatise on High-Tech, Artificial Intelligence, and the True Art of Thinking
“The cost of electrons and photons is getting cheaper all the time!”   \n? T. Gilling, The STREAM TONE: The Future of Personal Computing?
“Every scrape, site, range and page; every game, download, hack, song, movie and virrie on the Web. Everything on your phone. Everything on your 'puta. Even the content directories of your cupboards. Almost every system has been brute-forced; passwords cracked, firewalls breached. Nothing has been left untouched.”     \n? A. Ashley Straker, Connected Infection
“Life is meant to explore the world, not computer.”      \n? Vijay Dhameliya
“The externalization of memory [via the use of external symbolic storage systems] has altered the actual memory architecture within which humans think, which is changing the role of biological memory, the way in which the human brain deploys its resources, and the form of modern culture.”   \n? Merlin Donald
“Stop treating internet like it's a different thing and start focusing on what you actually want your society to look like.”     \n? Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi
“People that hold onto hate for so long do so because they want to avoid dealing with their pain. \nThey falsely believe if they forgive they are letting their enemy believe they are a doormat. \nWhat they don’t understand is hatred can’t be isolated or turned off. It manifests in their health, choices and belief systems. Their values and religious beliefs make adjustments to justify their negative emotions. Not unlike malware infesting a hard drive, their spirit slowly becomes corrupted and they make choices that don’t make logical sense to others. Hatred left unaddressed will crash a person’s spirit. \nThe only thing he or she can do is to reboot, by fixing him or herself, not others. This might require installing a firewall of boundaries or parental controls on their emotions. Regardless of the approach, we are all connected on this "network of life" and each of us is responsible for cleaning up our spiritual registry.”   \n? Shannon L. Alder
“Computers don't lie, but liars can compute.”   ? Terry Hayes, I Am Pilgrim
“Forty-two!" yelled Loonquawl. "Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' work?"        \n"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.”      \n? Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“After applying to hundreds of scholarships I finally felt that we are also beggars, no different than others, we are not on the street, uneducated, but we are sitting in front of computers with years of hardworking and repeatedly begging each and everyone to sponsor and support our education, not because we deserve, but we cannot afford.”      \n? M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
“What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can't get that from a computer.”    \n? Sarah Jio, Goodnight June
“If patterns of ones and zeroes were "like" patterns of human lives and deaths, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long strings of ones and zeroes, then what kind of creature could be represented by a long string of lives and deaths?”  \n? Thomas Pynchon, Vineland
“I wonder who had the first computer dream, where, and when? I wonder if computers ever dream of humans.”         \n? David Mitchell, Ghostwritten
“Amazin'.' he said again. 'He just looks as though he's thinking, right?'    \n'Er...yes.'    \n'But he's not actually thinking?'   \n'Er...no.'   \n'So...he just gives the impression of thinking but really it's just a show?'     \n'Er...yes.'    \nJust like everyone else, then really,' said Ridcully”  \n? Terry Pratchett
“Unix is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture. It is our Gilgamesh epic: a living body of narrative that many people know by heart, and tell over and over again—making their own personal embellishments whenever it strikes their fancy. \nThe bad embellishments are shouted down, the good ones picked up by others, polished, improved, and, over time, incorporated into the story. […] Thus Unix has slowly accreted around a simple kernel and acquired a kind of complexity and asymmetry about it that is organic, like the roots of a tree, or the branchings of a coronary artery. Understanding it is more like anatomy than physics.”  \n? Neal Stephenson
“You didn't happen to install Windows when you upgraded me, did you?”   ? Kelly McCullough, Codespell
“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.”      ? Julian Assange, Julian Assange - The Unauthorised Autobiography
“He also telephoned the Real Time Computer Complex on the ground floor of the Operations Wing to ask that an additional big I.B.M. computer be brought onto the line.”     ? Henry S.F. Cooper Jr., XIII: The Apollo Flight That Failed
“The voice that navigated was definitely that of a machine, and yet you could tell that the machine was a woman, which hurt my mind a little. How can machines have genders? The machine also had an American accent. How can machines have nationalities? This can't be a good idea, making machines talk like real people, can it? Giving machines humanoid identities?”      ? Matthew Quick, The Good Luck of Right Now
“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.”      ? Dave Barry
“Can the child who is Dell; be the outer emoodiment of man's quest to save himself? To cure himself?...Or, to "be" himself?”     ? Milkweed L. Augustine
“I can’t control who follows me, but I can control who I follow.[Social Media]” ? Germany Kent
“Because words have deep meaning, Tweets have power.”   ? Germany Kent
“It's hard to get motivated fixing a compile-time syntax error when you can buy a powder that turns a house into a monster.”     ? Ryan North
“Anybody who's spent any time with machines at all,' he added, 'and baby, that's us all, knows first and foremost there's only one thing certain about them, computer or bicycle. They go wrong.”    ? Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
“Was [Steve Jobs] smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius. His imaginative leaps were instinctive, unexpected, and at times magical. [...] Like a pathfinder, he could absorb information, sniff the winds, and sense what lay ahead. Steve Jobs thus became the greatest business executive of our era, the one most certain to be remembered a century from now.     \nHistory will place him in the pantheon right next to Edison and Ford. More than anyone else of his time, he made products that were completely innovative, combining the power of poetry and processors. With a ferocity that could make working with him as unsettling as it was inspiring, he also built the world's most creative company. And he was able to infuse into its DNA the design sensibilities, perfectionism, and imagination that make it likely to be, even decades from now, the company that thrives best at the intersection of artistry and technology.”   \n? Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
“People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time.”  \n? Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget
“Social Media begins with a story - your story.”     \n? Germany Kent
“Being able to sync the same content among multiple devices provides a very convenient backup for Dropbox data. If your Mac laptop gets dropped in your backyard swimming pool, as long as it’s been recently synced, you’ll still be able to quickly access all of the files and folders stored in Dropbox folder on the desktop PC.”    \n? Ian Lamont, Dropbox In 30 Minutes
“Once upon a time the world was a realm of unanswered questions and there was room in it for poetry. Man stood beneath the sky and he asked “why?”. And his question was beautiful.     \nThe 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.    \nPerhaps that is the way it has to be.”    \n? James Cameron
“Twitter is not just for Journalists. You don’t have to be a writer to Tweet.[Social Media]”    \n? Germany Kent
“Computers: he always fixed on computers when his mind wandered into the future--instruments he revered and hated. The computer world was a place where snotty kids knew everything and nothing.... The computer was part of a future cloudy, unpredictable and menacing.”     \n? Howard Fast, The Dinner Party
“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.”  \n? Ted Sargent, The Dance of Molecules: How Nanotechnology is Changing Our Lives
“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”     \n? James Cameron
“hacking in its pure form stretched back centuries. It wasn't restricted to a single medium. It was more than a methodology. It was an ethos.”  \n? Robin Wasserman, Hacking Harvard
“Give yourself permission 2 evolve. Become a philosopher; come up with your own interpretation of life and stop accepting someone else's as your truth.”  \n? Germany Kent
“Your grandma always was an advocate of thorough preparedness. She would strongly advise staying not only armed to the teeth, but well equipped in the computational department. You've been taught you should really carry no less than 5 computers on you at all times, like a sensible person.”    \n? Andrew Hussie
“It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.”     ? Tom Clancy, The Hunt for Red October
“A computer does not smell ... if a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better… And it stays with you forever. But the computer doesn’t do that for you. I’m sorry.”   ? Ray Bradbury
“The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Man is unbelievably slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. The marriage of the two is a challenge and opportunity beyond imagination.”      ? Stuart G. Walesh
“The information age is so psychotic – without the cell phone and Internet, I would be drama free right now.”    ? Lauren Barnholdt, Two-Way Street
“If you've never programmed a computer, you should. There's nothing like it in the whole world. When you program a computer, it does exactly what you tell it to do. It's like designing a machine — any machine, like a car, like a faucet, like a gas-hinge for a door — using math and instructions. It's awesome in the truest sense: it can fill you with awe.”  ? Cory Doctorow, Little Brother
“As an orangutan cannot embrace higher mathematics or comprehend the architecture and operation of a computer, we humans __ so good at loudly proclaiming our intelligence and applauding our own doltish displays of cerebral gymnastics __ cannot begin to understand the true structure and functioning of the Universe.”     ? John Rachel, 12-12-12
“What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!”     ? Cory Doctorow, Little Brother
“It can be argued that the computer is humanity’s attempt to replicate the human brain. This is perhaps an unattainable goal. However, unattainable goals often lead to outstanding accomplishment.”    ? Ammaar Shaukat Reshi
“A mind is a simulation that simulates itself.”    ? Erol Ozan
“We conquer the Independence Day aliens by having a Macintosh laptop computer upload a software virus to the mothership (which happens to be one-fifth the mass of the Moon), thus disarming its protective force field. \nI don’t know about you, but back in 1996 I had trouble just uploading files to other computers within my own department, especially when the operating systems were different. \nThere is only one solution: the entire defense system for the alien mothership must have been powered by the same release of Apple Computer’s system software as the laptop computer that delivered the virus.”    \n? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier
“It is no longer just engineers who dominate our technology leadership, because it is no longer the case that computers are so mysterious that only engineers can understand what they are capable of. There is an industry-wide shift toward more "product thinking" in leadership--leaders who understand the social and cultural contexts in which our technologies are deployed.   \nProducts must appeal to human beings, and a rigorously cultivated humanistic sensibility is a valued asset for this challenge. That is perhaps why a technology leader of the highest status--Steve Jobs--recently credited an appreciation for the liberal arts as key to his company's tremendous success with their various i-gadgets.”  \n? Damon Horowitz
“The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.”    ? Edsger W. Dijkstra
“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.”      ? Arlaina Tibensky, And Then Things Fall Apart
“The chip that functions abnormally will be desoldered, as they say.”   ? Charles Stross, Saturn's Children
“I pat the brand new twenty-seven inch Macintosh computers Mr. Foley brought us. 'These boxes alone should make both of us scream like it's Christmas morning! Snap out of it. Santa came! Now we get to play with all of our toys!”   ? Anne Eliot
“A few years ago a friend said that I use to hunt and fish and build houses and things but now my whole life revolved around my computer I replied "But my computer revolves around the world”     ? Stanley Victor Paskavich, Return to Stantasyland
“Face-book has all the social graces of a nose-picking, hyperactive six-year-old, standing at the threshold of your attention and chanting, “I know something, I know something, I know something, won’t tell you what it is!”    ? Cory Doctorow, Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future
“the problem with reading off a screen isn’t resolution, eyestrain, or compatibility with reading in the bathtub: it’s that computers are seductive, they tempt us to do other things, making concentrating on a long-form work impractical.”      ? Cory Doctorow, Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future
“Helpfiles are traditionally outnumbered by no-help files, which superficially resemble a helpfile in form but not in content because they don't actually tell you anything you don't already know, or they answer every question except the one you're asking, or you open them and a giant animated paper clip leaps out and cheerfully asks where you want to go today. And wikis are worse.”     ? Charles Stross, The Rapture of the Nerds: A tale of the singularity, posthumanity, and awkward social situations
“Abe said something interesting. He said that because everyone's so poor these days, the '90s will be a decade with no architectural legacy or style- everyone's too poor to put up new buildings. He said that code is the architecture of the '90s.”              ? Douglas Coupland, Microserfs
“The Googleplex Star Thinker is a super-computer from the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity and has the ability to calculate the trajectory of every single dust particle during a five-week Dangrabad Beta sand blizzard.   \nThe Deep Thought computer call it a pocket calculator in comparison to itself.”   \n? Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“Most of Csongor's time in T'Rain had been spent blundering about in a state of hapless newbie confusion. Only his long experience as a system administrator, struggling with Byzantine software installations, had prevented hum from plummeting into despair and simply giving up. Not that any of the sysadmin's knowledge and skills were applicable here. The psychological stance was the thing: the implicit faith, a little naive and a little cocky, that by banging his head against the problem for long enough he'd be able to break through in the end.”       ? Neal Stephenson, Reamde
“Database Management System [Origin: Data + Latin basus "low, mean, vile, menial, degrading, ounterfeit."] A complex set of interrelational data structures allowing data to be lost in many convenient sequences while retaining a complete record of the logical relations between the missing items.   -- From The Devil's DP Dictionary”        ? Stan Kelly Bootle
“On a scale ranging from very little to too much, Merkin could just about categorize the amount of personal data stored in Master Loo’s computer as a shitload.”    ? Sorin Suciu, The Scriptlings
“I hate computers. My hatred is entrenched, and I nourish it daily. \nI’m comfortable with it, and no community outreach program will change my mind. \nI hate computers for getting their own section in the New York Times and for lengthening commercials with the mention of a Web site address. \nWho really wants to find out more about Procter & Gamble? Just buy the toothpaste or laundry detergent, and get on with it. I hate them for creating the word org and I hate them for e-mail, which isn’t real mail but a variation of the pointless notes people used to pass in class. \nI hate computers for replacing the card catalog in the New York Public Library and I hate the way they’ve invaded the movies. I’m not talking about their contribution to the world of special effects. I have nothing against a well-defined mutant or full-scale alien invasion — that’s good technology. \nI’m talking about their actual presence in any given movie. \nThey’ve become like horses in a western — they may not be the main focus, but everybody seems to have one.”       \n? David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day
“[T]he key to winning the race is not to compete against machines but to compete with machines.”      ? Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee
“Many professionals have to sign gagging clauses or face the sack if they speak out. The social worker and therapist was familiar with the scare that revelation brings to the survivor. […]       \nWe are in this story. It isn't ours, but we are in it nonetheless, not least because of the viscous campaign which has followed us over the last ten years. Any organisation with which we work may receive correspondence from the accused adults’ and ‘false memory’ movements. Some of these propagandists are confidentially dominating the professional and political arguments using new information technology to spread what we consider to be smears, innuendo and misinformation. P8    \n(refers to authors Beatrix Campbell & Judith Jones – a journalist and a social worker/therapist)”   \n? Beatrix Campbell, Stolen Voices: The People And Politics Behind The Campaign To Discredit Childhood Testimony
“The world is changing rapidly, and everyone changes along with the world. Discoveries is now becoming rampant; intellectually, technologically,etc, each having its advantage and disadvantage.”   ? Michael Bassey Johnson
“Hot, short, thorough," I said. I hesitated before adding, "Please." It never pays to insult computers that are smart enough to form sentences. Not when they're in control of the locks, and especially when they have the capacity to boil you in bleach.    \n"Absolutely," said the shower.”     \n? Mira Grant, Deadline