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• We’re going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Computer

  Tags in Certain, Happen, Action

• Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Topics in Computer, Dream

  Tags in Propensity, Lunch, Tendency, Urge, Using, Anyone, Time, Track, True, Make, Knows, Come, Miss, Lost

• Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.

  Richard Dawkins

  Topics in Computer, Humanity

  Tags in Winning, Personally, Need, Look

• Interactivity has the virtue of democracy, conferring upon everyone with access to a computer the right and opportunity to be heard, but it’s also saddled with democracy’s vice — a tendency to assume that everyone who has a right to be heard has something to say that’s worth hearing.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Topics in Computer, Democracy

  Tags in Listening

• To err is human – and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

  Robert Orben

  Topics in Computer

  Tags in Human

• We’re getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Topics in Computer

  Tags in Diminished, Girth, Human

• So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go.

  Ted Nelson

  Topics in Computer

  Tags in Thoughts

• All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?

  James Hillman

  Topics in Computer

  Tags in Earlier, Curfew, Grow Up

• There’s my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.

  Howard Aiken

  Topics in Computer, Education

  Tags in Book

• We are now at a point in time when the ability to receive, utilize, store, transform and trasmit data — the lowest cognitive form — has expanded literally beyond comprehension. Understanding and wisdom are largely forgotten as we struggle under an avalanche of data and information.

  Unknown

  Topics in Computer, Knowledge, Wisdom

  Tags in Understanding

• My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.

  Emo Philips

  Topics in Computer

  Tags in Checkers, Beat

• Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.

  Jack Lynch

  Topics in Computer

  Tags in Writers And Writing, Argument

• It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they’ve been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them.

  Roy H. Williams

  Topics in Computer, Society

  Tags in Media, Like

• We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Topics in Computer

  Tags in Web, Want, World, Everything

• The value of having a computer, to me, is that it’ll remember everything you do. It’s a databank.

  John Cale

  Topics in Computer

  Tags in Everything

• The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Topics in Computer, Work

  Tags in Web, Information, Better, People

• I’m projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.

  Vinton Cerf

  Topics in Computer

  Tags in About

• We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable.

  Nick Park

  Topics in Computer

  Tags in World

• The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.

  Vinton Cerf

  Topics in Computer

  Tags in Would

• Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

  Bill Gates

  Topics in Computer, Technology