#computers

Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#commercial #computers #domestic #electronic #going

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#computer #interesting #more #question #submarine

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#developed #learn #revolutionize #software #themselves

This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#computers #customers #details #easy #good

We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#actions #after #ask #certain #computers

The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#brought #computers #computing #confronted #control

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020. ↗

— Ray Kurzweil

#about #achieve #brain #capacity #human

From cell phones to computers, quality is improving and costs are shrinking as companies fight to offer the public the best product at the best price. But this philosophy is sadly missing from our health-care insurance system. ↗

— John Shadegg

#cell #cell phones #companies #computers #costs

The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans. ↗

— David Smith

#big #big question #computers #humans #like

Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months. ↗

— Clifford Stoll

#anybody #else #every #get #like