“The Internet is a powerful way to make lots of money... But we are not going to buy Yahoo!”
Topic
computers
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“Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.”
“I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.”
“What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?”
“Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.”
“I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.”
“We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.”
“Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.”
“I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks.”
“The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.”
“The internet is not for sissies.”
“If net neutrality goes away, it will fundamentally change everything about the Internet.”
“I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one.”
“As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.”
“What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.”
“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.'”
“There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!”
“Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated.”
“Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.”
“I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Technology is like water it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely.”
“It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was - and is - respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills.”