Two thirds of the earth's population lives and dies without ever making or receiving a phone call.
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau
For half the people in the world, the nearest telephone is a two-day walk away.
Why computers and toddlers are alike
1) They have limited memory
2) You must tell them specifically what you want them to do
3) You must repeat instructions several times
4) There is no guarantee they will do as you want them to
5) They lose things
6) Adding items can be difficult
7) Networking is unpredictable and problematic
8) They throw temper tantrums
Normal people believe that it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.
- Scott Adams
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
- Richard Feynman
The most important space in the "space age" is between the ears.
- Thomas J. Barlow
Technological change is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
- Albert Einstein
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- B.F. Skinner
A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.
- Mark Ardis
It's currently a problem of access to gigabytes through punybaud.
- J. C. R. Licklider
There’s no point in having that idealistic view that in the future technology is going to rescue us. There’s no point in thinking technology is evil and it’s going to destroy us. The good and the bad come from the people.
- Simon Phipps
That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.
- Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle in Oath of Fealty
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
- Alan Turing
There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
- Charles Anthony Richard Hoare
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.
- Fred Brooks, Jr.
Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.
- H. Mumford Jones
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
I didn't build it. I didn't sell it to you. I didn't break it. I'm just here to fix it.
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
There is no mechanical problem so difficult that it cannot be solved by brute force and ignorance.
For half the people in the world, the nearest telephone is a two day walk away.
Two thirds of the earth's population lives and dies without ever making or receiving a phone call.
It all depends on your PERSPECTIVE:
1. They get hot when you turn them on, and that's the only time you have their attention.
Humans ability to invent new things almost always exceeds their capacity to make them function correctly.
- Albert Einstein , Out of My Later Years
- Johans Gustoff Wagner
- John F. Kennedy
Top 5 Reasons Why Computers Must Be Female:
5. No one but their creator understands their logic.
4. Even the smallest mistakes are immediately committed to memory for future reference.
3. The native language used to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else.
2. The message "bad command or filename," is about as informative as "If you don't know why I'm mad at you, then I'm certainly not going to tell you."
1. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half you paycheck on accessories for it.
Top 5 Reasons Why Computers Must Be Male:
5. They've heavily dependent on external tools and equipment.
4. They periodically cut you off right when you think you've established a network connection.
3. They'll usually do what you ask them to do, but they won't do more than they have to and they won't think of it on their own.
2. They're typically obsolete within five years and need to be traded in for a new model. Some users, however, feel they've already invested so much in their machine that they're compelled to remain with an under powered system.
Technology does not drive change --- it enables change.
You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
- Walker Percy
Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal.
- Albert Einstein
We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race.
- John Naisbitt
America has run the world for at least the past 50 years, and when you're at the top that long, you forget what it's like in the valley. There are 5+ billion people out there now who are willing to study harder, work harder for less money and be more industrious than we are. And we're linked to them by technology. With telecommunicating, you can have your bookkeeping done in Madra, India, for less than it costs here. Today technology can replace whole new industries, so you have to stay flexible. To survive today, you have to be able to walk on quicksand and dance with electrons.
- Frank Ogden
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
- Sydney J. Harris
A lot of what appears to be progress is just so much technological roccoco.
- Bill Grey, Control Data
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