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Brian Kernighan
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Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding...
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Joseph Weizenbaum :
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The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.
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Brandt Allen :
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Control over computing belongs with users.
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A program is a spell cast over a computer, turning input into error messages.
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Edsger W Dijkstra :
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When we had no computers, we had no programming problem either. When we had a few computers, we had a mild programming problem. Confronted with machines a million times as powerful, we are faced with a gigantic programming problem.
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Richard Dawkings :
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Personally I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world [chess] championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
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Lewis D Eigen :
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The workers and professionals of the world will soon be divided into two distinct groups. Those who will control computers and those who will be controlled by computers. It would be best for you to be in the former group.
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Isaac Asimov :
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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Admiral Grace Hopper :
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I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. […] they carefully told me, computers could only do arithmetic; they could not do programs.
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John Searle :
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I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.
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