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The brain processes information using 100,000 times less energy than we do right now with this computer technology that we have.
Sep 14, 2025
Men have become the tools of their tools.
Similar to computer technology in the '60s, 3-D printing is a universal technology that has the potential to revolutionize our life by enabling individuals to design and manufacture things.
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.
The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist.
A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.
We've created life in our own image.
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. That is a contraction of rocket technology and computer technology and atomic clock technology.
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
What's happened with computer technology is perfectly timed for someone with my set of skills. I tell stories with pictures. What I love about CGI is that if I can think it, it can be put on the screen.
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology.
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls Royce would today cost $100 and get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside.
For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce.
Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
And I make no apology for linking my thinking with computer technology.
I'm not anti-social. I'm just not social.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce: personalized, database-driven commerce, where the big value is not in the purchase fulfillment, but in knowing as much about a customer base of ten or twenty million people as a corner store used to know about a customer base of a few hundred. In today's mass-merchandising world, that's largely gone; Amazon is trying to use computer technology to re-establish it.
I think computer viruses should count as life.
I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
I doubt that pornography has been good for the advancement of society, but I suspect it’s done wonders for the advancement of computer technology.
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults, It is as if children were waiting all these centuries for someone to invent their native language.
The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.