A computer is a machine that manipulates data according to a set of instructions.
Although mechanical examples of computers have existed through much of recorded human history, the first electronic computers were developed in the mid-20th century (1940–1945). These were the size of a large room, consuming as much power as several hundred modern personal computers (PCs). Modern computers based on integrated circuits are millions to billions of tim...
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- The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence. ,
- If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer. ,
- The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. ,
- There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they will not be able to discover the secret springs of happiness in the human heart; they will know nothing of love and friendship. ,
- I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. ,
- Computer science only indicates the retrospective omnipotence of our technologies. In other words, an infinite capacity to process data (but only data -- i.e. the already given) and in no sense a new vision. With that science, we are entering an era of exhaustivity, which is also an era of exhaustion. ,
- Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time. ,
- I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. ,
- Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. ,
- Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
