Computers Quotes
“I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s - when the machine hadn't completely taken over life. The natural world was still the world, and machines - TV, telephone, cars - were still more or less ancillary, and computers were unheard of in everyday life.”
“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