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"Here'south to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the foursquare holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they accept no respect for the condition quo. You lot can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only matter you tin can't practice is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may meet them as the crazy ones, nosotros see genius. Considering the people who are crazy plenty to recollect they can alter the earth, are the ones who practise."
― Rob Siltanen

"I still love books. Naught a computer can exercise can compare to a book. You can't actually put a book on the Internet. Three companies have offered to put books by me on the Cyberspace, and I said, 'If you tin make something that has a nice jacket, nice newspaper with that dainty smell, and so we'll talk.' All the computer can give you is a manuscript. People don't want to read manuscripts. They want to read books. Books olfactory property good. They look good. You lot can press it to your bosom. You tin can behave it in your pocket."
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

"Ii things you should know about me; The first is that I am deeply suspicious of people in general. It is my nature to expect the worst of them. And the second is that I am unexpectedly good with computers."
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the earth are the ones who practise."
― Rob Siltanen

"I call up computer viruses should count as life ... I remember information technology says something about human being nature that the only form of life nosotros have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our ain image."
― Stephen Hawking

"I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' only a human mistake is zip to what a computer tin can exercise if information technology tries."
― Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party

"Whatsoever idiot tin can put up a website."
― Patricia Briggs, Blood Jump

"Computers are like Old Attestation gods; lots of rules and no mercy."
― Joseph Campbell, The Ability of Myth

"Those who can imagine anything, can create the impossible."
― Alan Turing

"Well, Mr. Frankel, who started this program, began to suffer from the computer disease that everyone who works with computers now knows about. It'due south a very serious affliction and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is y'all *play* with them. They are so wonderful. You have these switches - if it'southward an fifty-fifty number you exercise this, if it'due south an odd number yous exercise that - and pretty soon you lot can do more and more elaborate things if you are clever enough, on 1 machine.

After a while the whole system broke down. Frankel wasn't paying whatsoever attention; he wasn't supervising anybody. The system was going very, very slowly - while he was sitting in a room figuring out how to brand one tabulator automatically print arc-tangent X, and so it would commencement and it would print columns and so bitsi, bitsi, bitsi, and calculate the arc-tangent automatically past integrating as it went along and make a whole table in one operation.

Absolutely useless. Nosotros *had* tables of arc-tangents. But if yous've ever worked with computers, you empathise the disease - the *delight* in being able to come across how much you tin can do. But he got the affliction for the first time, the poor fellow who invented the matter."
― Richard P. Feynman, Surely Y'all're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

"Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal past pack rats and vandalized nightly. "
― Roger Ebert

"Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery piece of work again."
― Charles Stross, The Atrocity Archives

"That'southward the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers."
― Larry Niven

"Now, 75 years [after To Kill a Mockingbird], in an abundant gild where people accept laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.

[Open up Letter, O Magazine, July 2006]"
― Harper Lee

"Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference; we should each be treated with appropriate respect."
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

"A estimator lets you brand more mistakes faster than any other invention with the possible exceptions of handguns and Tequila."
― Mitch Ratcliffe

"Computers don't kill books; people do."
― Douglas Rushkoff

"I actually didn't foresee the Net. But then, neither did the figurer manufacture. Not that that tells u.s. very much of class--the estimator manufacture didn't even foresee that the century was going to end."
― Douglas Adams

"Proficient judgement comes from feel, and feel comes from bad sentence."
― Frederick P. Brooks

"Emphasizing the crowd ways de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when y'all ask people non to be people, they revert to bad, mob-like behaviors."
― Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget

"I am non the only person who uses his estimator mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer."
― Dave Barry

"All all of a sudden, nosotros've lost a lot of control,' he said. 'We can't plough off our cyberspace; we can't plow off our smartphones; we can't turn off our computers. You used to ask a smart person a question. Now, who do you inquire? It starts with chiliad-o, and it'due south not God…"
― Steve Wozniak

"These problems have been here and so long that the but style I've been able to part at all is by learning to ignore them. Else I would be in a constant land of panic, unable to call back or deed constructively."
― Marker Bowden, Worm: The Showtime Digital World War

"The intentions of the cybernetic totalist tribe are good. They are simply post-obit a path that was blazed in before times by well-meaning Freudians and Marxists - and I don't hateful that in a debasing way. I'm thinking of the earliest incarnations of Marxism, for case, earlier
Stalinism and Maoism killed millions.

Movements associated with Freud and Marx both claimed foundations in rationality and the scientific agreement of the globe. Both perceived themselves to be at war with the weird, manipulative fantasies of religions. And even so both invented their own fantasies that were but as weird.

The same thing is happening again. A cocky-proclaimed materialist movement that attempts to base itself on scientific discipline starts to look like a religion rather chop-chop. It soon presents its own eschatology and its ain revelations nearly what is really going on - portentous events that no one but the initiated can appreciate. The Singularity and the noosphere, the idea that a collective consciousness emerges from all the users on the spider web, echo Marxist social determinism and Freud's calculus of perversions. We rush ahead of skeptical, scientific inquiry at our peril, just like the Marxists and Freudians."
― Jaron Lanier, You lot Are Not a Gadget

"For most people, home nosotros represented by four walls and a roof. Non for Noa. She preferred a motherboard to a mother, a keyboard to house keys. Nothing was more comforting than the hum of a spinning difficult drive."
― Michelle Gagnon, Don't Plow Around

"... we accept created a man with not one brain only ii. ... This new brain is intended to control the biological brain. ... The patient's biological brain is the peripheral concluding -- the only peripheral concluding -- for the new computer. ... And therefore the patient's biological brain, indeed his whole trunk, has become a final for the new computer. Nosotros accept created a man who is 1 unmarried, large, complex computer final. The patient is a read-out device for the new computer, and is helpless to control the readout as a Tv set screen is helpless to control the data presented on information technology."
― Michael Crichton, The Final Human being

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