Computers Quotes
“Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them.”
“Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.”
-- Ted Nelson
“Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.”
-- Prince
“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.”
-- Alvin Toffler
“I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world.”
-- Herbert Simon
“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