The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no stage director, no emperor, however powerful, has ever exercised such absolute authority to arrange a stage or field of battle and to… — Joseph Weizenbaum Copy Share Image
Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more… — Joseph Weizenbaum Copy Share Image
“I have spoken here of what ought and ought not to be done, of what is morally repugnant, and of what is dangerous. I… — Joseph Weizenbaum Copy Share Image
“What I had not realized is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal… — Joseph Weizenbaum Copy Share Image
I think that children have a power to imagine that is almost magical when compared to the adult imagination, and this is something irrevocable… — Joseph Weizenbaum Copy Share Image
Being personally acquainted with a number of Waldorf students, I can say that they come closer to realizing their own potential than practically anyone… — Joseph Weizenbaum Copy Share Image
Man is not a machine, ... although man most certainly processes information, he does not necessarily process it in the way computers do. Computers… — Joseph Weizenbaum Copy Share Image
Science promised man power. But, as so often happens when people are seduced by promises of power, the price is servitude and impotence. Power… — Joseph Weizenbaum Copy Share Image
“If the teacher, if anyone, is to be an example of a whole person to others, he must first strive to be a whole… — Joseph Weizenbaum Copy Share Image
“I cannot tell why the spokesmen I have cited want the developments I forecast to become true. Some of them have told me that… — Joseph Weizenbaum Copy Share Image
The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the… — Joseph Weizenbaum Copy Share Image
A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind. — Joseph Weizenbaum Copy Share Image
“It is a widely held but a grievously mistaken belief that civil courage finds exercise only in the context of world-shaking events. To the… — Joseph Weizenbaum Copy Share Image
