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What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.
Frank Abagnaleborn 1948Frank Abagnale Jr.—Biography, Internet Movie Database, accessed 2008-10-12
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.
Douglas Adams1952–2001The Salmon of Doubt (2002)
Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
Douglas Adams1952–2001The Salmon of Doubt (2002)
- Age
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
AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there’ll be great companies.
Sam Altmanborn 1985Head of Silicon Valley’s most important startup farm says we’re in a ‘mega bubble’ that won’t last, Business Insider (5 June 2015)
- Business
It is a failure of human imagination and human arrogance to assume that we will never build things smarter than ourselves.
Sam Altmanborn 1985“The Merge”, blog post (2017)
- Intelligence
A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
Isaac Asimov1920–1992“Runaround” in Astounding Science Fiction (March 1942)
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
Isaac Asimov1920–1992“Runaround” in Astounding Science Fiction (March 1942)
A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
Isaac Asimov1920–1992“Runaround” in Astounding Science Fiction (March 1942)
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)
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
Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.
Steve Ballmerborn 1956“Ballmer Boosts Harvard Computer Science Faculty” (13 November 2014)
- Computers
- Science
The function of RAM is to give us guys a way of deciding whose computer has the biggest, studliest, most tumescent MEMORY. This is important, because with today’s complex software, the more memory a computer has, the faster it can produce error messages. So the bottom line is, if you’re a guy, you cannot have enough RAM.
Dave Barryborn 1947
- Dave Barry
Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.
Dave Barryborn 1947Cyberspace (1996)
- Dave Barry
Without computers, the government would be unable to function at the
level of effectiveness and efficiency that we have come to expect.
This is because the primary function of the government is⁠—and here I
am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution⁠—‘to spew out paper.’
Dave Barryborn 1947Dave Barry in Cyberspace
- Dave Barry