The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.
Computers Quotes
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
A computer, to print out a fact, Will divide, multiply, and subtract. But this output can be No more than debris, If the input was short of exact.
Computer science only indicates the retrospective omnipotence of our technologies. In other words, an infinite capacity to process data (but only data – i.e. the already given) and in no sense a new vision. With that science, we are entering an era of exhaustivity, which is also an era of exhaustion.
They can rattle off the Manhattan telephone directory unerringly time after time, which no human can do, but they cannot begin to distinguish one face from another, as babies can do.
For thousand of years, the route to power was the control of land and armies. Today when you can put “worlds on a grain of sand,” control of specific territories declines in importance. What matters is not the control of lands but the liberation of minds.
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.
Given certain factors, and a sound brain should always evolve the same fixed product with the certainty of Babbage’s calculating machine. What a satire, by the way, is that machine on the mere mathematician! A Frankenstein-monster, a thing without brains and without heart, too stupid to make a blunder; that turns out results like a […]
If I could come back as anything – I’d be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.
DZUB-NON TRUL-PAR Tibetan word for computer, translates as finger pressing magic picture.
