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Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That’s the way that the license works.
Steve Ballmerborn 1956“Microsoft CEO takes launch break with the Sun-Times” (1 June 2001) Chicago Sun Times
- Business
Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.
Steve Ballmerborn 1956“Ballmer Boosts Harvard Computer Science Faculty” (13 November 2014)
- Science
A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
Alan Turing1912–1954“Intelligent Machinery: A Report by A. M. Turing,” (Summer 1948), submitted to the National Physical Laboratory (1948) and published in Key Papers: Cybernetics, ed. C. R. Evans and A. D. J. Robertson (1968) and, in variant form, in Machine …
By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s.
PKPaul Krugmanborn 1953“Why most economists’ predictions are wrong”, The Red Herring, June 1998
- Internet
- Technology
A smart machine will first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task or, instead, to figure some way out of it.
Stanisław Lem1921–2006The Futurological Congress (1971)
- Technology
Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
Tim Berners-Leeborn 1955Interview by Kris Herbst for Internet World (June 1994)
- Comedy
I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.
Alan Turing1912–1954Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950), p. 442.
- Thinking
Everyone is a programmer now. You just have to say something to the computer.
Jensen Huangborn 1963“Nvidia chief Jensen Huang says AI is creating a ‘new computing era’” in Financial Post (30 May 2023)
- Technology
I believe the merge has already started, and we are a few years in. Our phones control us and tell us what to do when; social media feeds determine how we feel; search engines decide what we think.
Sam Altmanborn 1985“The Merge”, blog post (2017)
- Internet
- Technology
I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing.
Neil Gaimanborn 1960Neil Gaiman’s Twitter stream, Tweet ID # 1178514410, (5 February 2009)
- Comedy
- Internet
No algorithm exists for the metaphor, nor can a metaphor be produced by means of a computer’s precise instructions, no matter what the volume of organized information to be fed in.
Umberto Eco1932–2016Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language (1984), Ch. 3: “Metaphor”, 3.12 Conclusions
We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves.
Ada Lovelace1815–1852Notes on the Analytical Engine invented by Charles Babbage (1843)
The Internet doesn’t just offer opportunities for misogynistic abuse, you know. Penis enlargers can also be bought discreetly.
J. K. Rowlingborn 1965Tweet (8 May 2015), as cited in “J.K. Rowling Burns Twitter Troll With ‘Penis Enlargers’ Joke”, The Hollywood Reporter (8 May 2015)
- Clever Jabs
- Internet
The hardest thing is trying not to correct everything on the Internet. It’d be night and day⁠—wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. So you just have to say, “All right, I’ll take it, bring it on.”
George Clooneyborn 1961“The 9:10 to Crazyland: George Clooney searches for George Clooney” by A.J. Jacobs, Esquire (April 2008), pp. 104–105
- Comedy
- Internet