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Computers

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020. – Ray Kurzweil

What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers? – Walter F. Mondale

Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us. – Jef Raskin

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager. – Eugene Jarvis

We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers. – Bill McCollum

Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware. – Ken Olsen

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing. – Douglas Engelbart

The internet is not for sissies. – Paul Vixie

If net neutrality goes away, it will fundamentally change everything about the Internet. – James Hilton

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications. – Dave Parnas

What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents. – Dale Dougherty

Computers make me totally blank out. – Dalai Lama

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn. – Steve Jobs

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark. – Stephen Hawking

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

Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene – but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers. – William Shatner

Technology is like water it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use – not only text or media but processing power too – will be located remotely. – Marc Andreessen

It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was – and is – respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills. – Kevin Mitnick

Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek? – Tracey Ullman

I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface. – David Mamet