Richard Dawkins Quotes About Computers

Quotes about: Computers

• There is a popular cliché ... which says that you cannot get out of computers any more than you have put in..., that computers can only do exactly what you tell them to, and that therefore computers are never creative. This cliché is true only in a crashingly trivial sense, the same sense in which Shakespeare never wrote anything except what his first schoolteacher taught him to write-words.

  Richard Dawkins

  Teacher, Truth, Writing

• Such a bandwidth! God, who may not have a brain made of neurons, or a CPU made of silicon, but if he has the powers attributed to him he must have something far more elaborately and non-randomly constructed than the largest brain or the largest computer we know.

  Richard Dawkins

  Brain, Neurons, May

  "The God Delusion". Book by Richard Dawkins, 2006.

• If you don't know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result.

  Richard Dawkins

  Machines, Remember, Computer

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.59, W. W. Norton & Company

• Like computer viruses, successful mind viruses will tend to be hard for their victims to detect. If you are the victim of one, the chances are that you won't know it, and may even vigorously deny it.

  Richard Dawkins

  Successful, Mind, Atheism

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain”, p.137, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The present Luddism over genetic engineering may die a natural death as the computer-illiterate generation is superseded.... I fear that, if the green movement's high-amplitude warnings over GMOs turn out to be empty, people will be dangerously disinclined to listen to other and more serious warnings.

  Richard Dawkins

  Engineering, Gmos, People

  Richard Dawkins (2010). “A Devil's Chaplain: Selected Writings”, p.20, Hachette UK

• Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.

  Richard Dawkins

  Cute, Humility, Winning

• My computer is a very complex gadget and it was designed by many designers, so why must the universe have only a single designer and not many designers?

  Richard Dawkins

  Gadgets, Computer, Designer

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• Writing a computer virus program is child's play. Any fool can do it, which is why the silly little twerps who do have nothing to be proud of.

  Richard Dawkins

  Children, Silly, Writing

• The genetic code is not a binary code as in computers, nor an eight-level code as in some telephone systems, but a quaternary code with four symbols. The machine code of the genes is uncannily computerlike.

  Richard Dawkins

  Eight, Machines, Levels

  Richard Dawkins (1995). “River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life”, Basic Books (AZ)

• The machine code of the genes is uncannily computer-like. Apart from differences in jargon, the pages of a molecular biology journal might be interchanged with those of a computer engineering journal.

  Richard Dawkins

  Differences, Engineering, Molecular Biology

  Richard Dawkins (1995). “River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life”, Basic Books (AZ)

• Whether we ever get to know about them or not, there are very probably alien civilizations that are superhuman, to the point of being god-like in ways that exceed anything a theologian could possibly imagine. Their technical achievements would seem as supernatural to us as ours would seem to a Dark Age peasant transported to the twenty-first century. Imagine his response to a laptop computer, a mobile telephone, a hydrogen bomb or a jumbo jet.

  Richard Dawkins

  Dark, Civilization, Hydrogen Bomb

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.98, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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