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I can’t be as confident about computer science as I can about biology. Biology easily has 500 years of exciting problems to work on. It’s at that level.
Donald Knuthborn 1938Interview, Computer Literacy Bookshops (1993)
- Computers
- Science
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
- Computers
Scientific and technological “solutions” which poison the environment or degrade the social structure and man himself are of no benefit, no matter how brilliantly conceived or how great their superficial attraction.
ESE. F. Schumacher1911–1977Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered (1973), p. 31.
- Science
I believe that Facebook represents one of the gravest threats to democracies around the world, and I am amazed that we have allowed our freedoms to be taken away by technology companies’ greed for growth and revenues.
Maria Ressaborn 1963How to Stand Up to a Dictator (2022)
- Democracy
Mr. Watson — Come here — I want to see you.
Alexander Graham Bell1847–1922First intelligible words spoken over the telephone (10 March 1876), as recorded in Bell’s Journal entry (10 March 1876)
Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.
Steve Ballmerborn 1956“Ballmer Boosts Harvard Computer Science Faculty” (13 November 2014)
- Computers
- Science
Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.
James A. Michener1907–1997Space (1982), Ch. 6
- Science
A robot may not injure humanity, or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
Isaac Asimov1920–1992Robots and Empire (1985); an earlier form appears in “The Evitable Conflict” (1950)
We have abolished space here on the little Earth; we can never abolish the space that yawns between the stars.
Arthur C. Clarke1917–2008We’ll Never Conquer Space (1960)
- 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 …
- Computers
I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
Charles Lindbergh1902–1974Of Flight and Life (1948)
- Science
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
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)
- Computers
Any time someone puts a lock on something you own against your wishes, and doesn’t give you the key, they’re not doing it for your benefit.
Cory Doctorowborn 1971“Digital Distribution and the Whip Hand: Don’t Get iTunesed with your eBooks”, O’Reilly (11 February 2009)
- Freedom
The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.
B. F. Skinner1904–1990Contingencies of Reinforcement: A Theoretical Analysis (1969)
- Thinking