The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.
Earl WarrenTag: individuality prediction communication computers internet privacy e-mail telecommunications
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes
Edsger W. DijkstraWell, Mr. Frankel, who started this program, began to suffer from the computer disease that anybody who works with computers now knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is you *play* with them. They are so wonderful. You have these switches - if it's an even number you do this, if it's an odd number you do that - and pretty soon you can do more and more elaborate things if you are clever enough, on one machine.
After a while the whole system broke down. Frankel wasn't paying any attention; he wasn't supervising anybody. The system was going very, very slowly - while he was sitting in a room figuring out how to make one tabulator automatically print arc-tangent X, and then it would start and it would print columns and then bitsi, bitsi, bitsi, and calculate the arc-tangent automatically by integrating as it went along and make a whole table in one operation.
Absolutely useless. We *had* tables of arc-tangents. But if you've ever worked with computers, you understand the disease - the *delight* in being able to see how much you can do. But he got the disease for the first time, the poor fellow who invented the thing.
Tag: humor computers programming
Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.
Robert A. HeinleinTag: humor sex technology computers wit technophobes
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.Tag: computers
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Nathaniel S. BorensteinTag: computers
All of a sudden, we’ve lost a lot of control,’ he said. ‘We can’t turn off our internet; we can’t turn off our smartphones; we can’t turn off our computers. You used to ask a smart person a question. Now, who do you ask? It starts with g-o, and it’s not God…
Steve WozniakTag: god technology computers google
Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor.
Norbert WienerTag: economics computers cybernetics robots slavery
The I.B.M. machine has no ethic of its own; what it does is enable one or two people to do the computing work that formerly required many more people. If people often use it stupidly, it's their stupidity, not the machine's, and a return to the abacus would not exorcise the failing. People can be treated as drudges just as effectively without modern machines.
William H. WhyteTag: computers
Forget UNIX - it will be gone in 5 years.
Tom JermolukTag: humor technology computers
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