Computer Quotes - Page 17

• Now comes the second machine age. Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power - the ability to use our brains to understand and shape our environments-what the steam engine and its descendants did for muscle power.

  Erik Brynjolfsson

  Brain, Age, Machines

  "The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies". Book by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, 2014.

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• Computers get better faster than anything else ever.

  Erik Brynjolfsson

  Get Better, Faster, Playstation

  "Erik Brynjolfsson: In A Race With Machines, Can We Keep Up?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, kvpr.org. April 21, 2017.

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• The kids know what I'm doing when I exercise, and that's powerful. So don't just tell your kids to go play outside. Take a moment off your computer, put on your tennis shoes, hop outside and help them start their game and run off some energy.

  Summer Sanders

  Running, Powerful, Kids

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• We are reaching the stage where the problems we must solve are going to become insoluble without computers. I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them.

  Isaac Asimov

  Problem, Reaching, Stage

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• Like most people, I gave little thought during my life to the scourge of child pornography. But, I now know we are fighting a losing battle. The predators are sophisticated in the use of computers and talented in the manipulation of children.

  Kurt Eichenwald

  Children, Fighting, People

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• Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense.

  Neil Postman

  Revolution, Nonsense, Function

  Neil Postman (2011). “Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology”, p.156, Vintage

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• If true computer music were ever written, it would only be listened to by other computers.

  Michael Crichton

  Written, Ifs

  Michael Crichton (1983). “Electronic Life: How to Think about Computers”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• My big dream back then was to buy an IBM Selectric. I still have that dream. I really ought to buy a word-processor. Half the cabbies at Rocky own computers. They tell me they can write failed novels ten times faster on a PC.

  Gary Reilly

  Dream, Writing, Half

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• The Hacker Ethic: Access to computers--and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works--should be unlimited and total.
  Always yield to the Hands-On Imperative!
  All information should be free.
  Mistrust authority--promote decentralization.
  Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not bogus criteria such as degrees, age, race, or position.
  You can create art and beauty on a computer.
  Computers can change your life for the better.

  Steven Levy

  Art, Hands, Yield

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• What, then, is the basic difference between today's computer and an intelligent being? It is that the computer can be made to seebut not to perceive. What matters here is not that the computer is without consciousness but that thus far it is incapable of the spontaneous grasp of pattern--a capacity essential to perception and intelligence.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Intelligent, What Matters, Differences

  Rudolf Arnheim (2004). “Visual Thinking”, p.73, Univ of California Press

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• The archetype of all humans, their ideal image, is the computer, once it has liberated itself from its creator, man. The computeris the essence of the human being. In the computer, man reaches his completion.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Men, Essence, Evolution

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• Computer mediation seems to bathe action in a more conditional light: perhaps it happened; perhaps it didn't. Without the layeredrichness of direct sensory engagement, the symbolic medium seems thin, flat, and fragile.

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Reality, Light, Engagement

  Shoshana Zuboff (1988). “In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power”, New York : Basic Books

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• Computer dating? It's terrific if you're a computer!

  Rita Mae Brown

  Dating, Terrific, Ifs

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• I can barely even run a computer. God knows what I'd get on online dating. I'd get something that was subhuman or something.

  Stockard Channing

  Running, Dating, Online

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• The computer was, to the best of my feelings about the subject, not thinking like a mathematician, and it was much more successful, because it was thinking not like a mathematician.

  Kenneth Appel

  Successful, Science, Thinking

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• Without computers we will be stuck only proving theorems that have short proofs.

  Kenneth Appel

  Science, Mathematics, Proof

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• Computer assisted proofs are getting better and better and computers will play a bigger and bigger role in the future.

  Enrico Bombieri

  Science, Play, Get Better

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• I am a professor at the computer science department, but I don't know how to use a computer, not even for Email.

  Endre Szemeredi

  Science, Email, Use

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• It is cheaper to pay mathematicians and computer scientists to design algorithms that will eliminate webspamming, rather than to pay lawyers to do lawsuits.

  Jennifer Tour Chayes

  Science, Design, Algorithms

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• Theoretical Computer Science is just as useless as everything we mathematicians do.

  Jennifer Tour Chayes

  Science, Useless, Mathematics

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• I once got a call from a bank, asking me to compute a mortgage, since their computers were down. This was a very depressing moment.

  Richard A. Falk

  Depressing, Science, Asking

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• The mind is an evolved computer program.

  Eric Baum

  Science, Mind, Mathematics

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• Thought, then, is the execution of this computer code.

  Eric Baum

  Science, Execution, Mathematics

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• Computers are here to stay. It is a major challenge for the future to use computers efficiently in combinatorics without losing its special appeal.

  Noga Alon

  Science, Challenges, Special

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• Nowadays we can do computer experiments using Mathematica, and even solve a system of 42 equations. This offers another route to knowledge, rather than mere ideas.

  John Forbes Nash

  Science, Ideas, Mathematics

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