“There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.”
— Stephen Hawking
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“Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.”
— Ted Nelson
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“Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.”
— Thomas Nagel
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“I just became one with my browser software.”
— Bill Griffith
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“Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.”
— Jean Rostand
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“What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?”
— Walter F. Mondale
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“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
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“Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.”
— Nicholas Negroponte
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“If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.”
— Alan Perlis
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“Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school – this was in the 1960s.”
— Mitch Kapor
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“I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.”
— Carla Bruni
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