3 December 2020 Bill James Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.
3 December 2020 Ray Kurzweil Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.
3 December 2020 Jon Postel One of the things that is not so good is that a decision was made long ago about the size of an IP address – 32 bits. At the time it was a number much larger than anyone could imagine ever having that many computers but it turned out to be to small.
3 December 2020 J. G. Ballard 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.
3 December 2020 Jo Ann Davis Equipped with cell phones, beepers, and handheld computers, the ‘conspicuously industrious’ blur the line between home and office by working anytime, anywhere.
3 December 2020 Peter Drucker Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations… They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them ‘operators’ or ‘programmers.’
3 December 2020 James Fallows Over the eons I’ve been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to ‘simplify’ and ‘bring order to’ my life. Very early on this led me to the beautiful-and-doomed Lotus Agenda for my DOS computers, and Actioneer for the early Palm.
3 December 2020 Ted Nelson They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
3 December 2020 Arthur C. Clarke Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software.
3 December 2020 Greg Egan Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.
3 December 2020 Anna Chlumsky Keep in mind that there are computers, that do touch things up. Like when I got a hold of the poster for ‘Gold Diggers,’ I said: ‘Hey, wait a minute! Those aren’t my teeth!’
3 December 2020 Walter F. Mondale What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?
3 December 2020 Alvin Toffler The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I’m talking about an organic computer – about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.
3 December 2020 Jackie Chan Don’t try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.
3 December 2020 Stephen Root People are on their computers more than watching TV, because you can only watch voyeur TV, which is basically what reality shows are, for so long.
3 December 2020 Dave Barry I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.
3 December 2020 Steve Case One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal computers. There weren’t that many people to sell to, and it was hard to identify them.
3 December 2020 Miguel de Icaza Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else’s patent.
3 December 2020 Marc Andreessen 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.
3 December 2020 Claude Vorilhon Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don’t have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison.
3 December 2020 Joe Sakic My e-mail address is actually my wife’s e-mail address. I actually hate computers.
3 December 2020 Julia Louis-Dreyfus Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them.
3 December 2020 Lennart Nilsson That’s the new way – with computers, computers, computers. That’s the way we can have the cell survive and get some new information in high resolution. We started about five years ago and, today, I think we have reached the target.
3 December 2020 Steve Wozniak At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.
