#computers

I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on the Internet. Three companies have offered to put books by me on the Net, and I said, 'If you can make something that has a nice jacket, nice paper with that nice smell, then we'll talk.' All the computer can give you is a manuscript. People don't want to read manuscripts. They want to read books. Books smell good. They look good. You can press it to your bosom. You can carry it in your pocket. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#computers #internet #reading #love

The Googleplex Star Thinker is a super-computer from the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity and has the ability to calculate the trajectory of every single dust particle during a five-week Dangrabad Beta sand blizzard. The Deep Thought computer call it a pocket calculator in comparison to itself. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#humor #science-fiction #science

Asked about the fact that Apple's iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs joked, 'It's like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#computers #itunes #mac #steve-jobs #windows

Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#better #cars #computers #driving #good

People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#around #bad #better #cars #computer

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.' ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#computer #down #expressions #feared #modern

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#fear #i #i do #lack #them

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#completely #computer #honest #inhumanity #once

The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor. ↗