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- Nov 07, 2020
Computers Quotes
How people talked about computers before they were everywhere.
These quotes span decades of attitudes toward computers - one mathematician once dismissed them as low-class next to pure math, while another warns against assuming computers can substitute for real teaching. More at Internet.
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- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.
- Bursts
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- Nov 07, 2020
AIM was so quaint, it organized users around 'buddy lists.' In a time before smartphones, AIM was powerful and intoxicating, a way for a generation that once had called people on the phone to communicate in quick bursts from their computers.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a suspicion that the politicians' revival of the old behaviourist ideas and techniques will be helped and reinforced by a powerful ally - the machines we have built. The computers.
- Anything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know anything about computers.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was around computers from birth; we had one of the first Macs, which came out shortly before I was born, and my dad ran a company that wrote computer operating systems. I don't think I have any particular technical skills; I just got a really large head start.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020