Topic: Computers

Quotes

Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.

Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.

- Clifford Stoll

When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment.

When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment.

- Frank Press

Computers can't find the unexpected, but people can when they eyeball the data.

Computers can't find the unexpected, but people can when they eyeball the data.

- Debra Fischer

Computers get better faster than anything else ever.

Computers get better faster than anything else ever.

- Erik Brynjolfsson

The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.

The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.

- Alan Turing

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

- Ted Nelson

I didn't know much about computers. I still worked on a manual Olivetti typewriter.

I didn't know much about computers. I still worked on a manual Olivetti typewriter.

- Mona Simpson

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

- Nicholas Negroponte

People are seduced by signals from the world, but that is manipulation, not reality. Computers have learned more about us than we've learned about them.

People are seduced by signals from the world, but that is manipulation, not reality. Computers have learned more about us than we've learned about them.

- Douglas Rushkoff