Joseph Weizenbaum Quotes About Computers

• The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.

  Joseph Weizenbaum

  Technology, Computer, Responsible

• The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no stage director, no emperor, however powerful, has ever exercised such absolute authority to arrange a stage or field of battle and to command such unswervingly dutiful actors or troops.

  Joseph Weizenbaum

  Powerful, Battle, Directors

• A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.

  Joseph Weizenbaum

  Work, Technology, Mind

• Man is not a machine, ... although man most certainly processes information, he does not necessarily process it in the way computers do. Computers and men are not species of the same genus. .... No other organism, and certainly no computer, can be made to confront genuine human problems in human terms. ... However much intelligence computers may attain, now or in the future, theirs must always be an intelligence alien to genuine human problems and concerns.

  Joseph Weizenbaum

  Future, Science, Men

• Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive

  Joseph Weizenbaum

  Children, Book, Computer

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