I simply maintain that computers are more efficient than human beings – not better. (Spock, “The Ultimate Computer”)
Computers Quotes
The attention span of a computer is only as long as its electrical cord.
Hit any user to continue.
Sometimes it pays to stay in bed in Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debuging Monday’s code.
Terrified of being alone, yet afraid of intimacy, we experience widespread feelings of emptiness, of disconnection, of the unreality of self. And here the computer, a companion without emotional demands, offers a compromise. You can be a loner, but never alone. You can interact, but need never feel vulnerable to another person.
All a computer does is tell a consistent story: a consistent truth or, if the programmer’s guesses are unlikely, a consistent fiction.
We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.
The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.
The computer is more than a tool, it is a medium. Just as the typeface standardised information -changing us from a society where information was at the mercy of monks busy with hand-copying into a fact-loving society where non-fiction outsells fiction -so the computer will change the way we look at the world.
It seems to me the book has not just aesthetic values – the charming little clothy box of the thing, the smell of the glue, even the print, which has its own beauty. But there’s something about the sensation of ink on paper that is in some sense a thing, a phenomenon rather than an […]
