Joseph Weizenbaum Quotes
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A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.
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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…
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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…
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Being personally acquainted with a number of Waldorf students, I can say that they come closer to realizing their own potential than practically anyone I…
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Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive
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Man is not a machine, ... although man most certainly processes information, he does not necessarily process it in the way computers do. Computers and…
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Science promised man power. But, as so often happens when people are seduced by promises of power, the price is servitude and impotence. Power is…
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I think that children have a power to imagine that is almost magical when compared to the adult imagination, and this is something irrevocable that…
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