‘I think theres a world market for about five computers. Quoted by Charles Hard Townes In Martin Moskovits (Ed.) Science and Society the John C. Polanyi Nobel Lareates Lectures Anansi Press Concord Ontario 1995 p 8.’
‘The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.’
‘Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idoits. So far the Universe is winning.’
‘Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.’
‘Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies.’
‘Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel.’
‘First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web weve realized its a brochure.’
‘Man is a game playing animal and a computer is another way to play games.’
‘Man is the most extraordinary computer of all.’
‘I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there [...]