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Computer Quotes by Douglas Rushkoff
- Brains are tricky and adaptable organs. For all the 'neuroplasticity' allowing our brains to reconfigure themselves to the biases of our computers, we are just…
- Every new computer program is basically doing some task that a person used to do. But the computer usually does it faster, more accurately, for…
- Everyone knows, or should know, that everything we type on our computers or say into our cell phones is being disseminated throughout the datasphere. And…
- Google did a great job hacking the Web to create search - and then monetizing search with advertising. And Apple did a great job humanizing…
- If the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with the processing of…
- It feels as if ever since the iPhone was released, the Macintosh computer has become just another leverage point in this other operating system's marketing…
- People are seduced by signals from the world, but that is manipulation, not reality. Computers have learned more about us than we've learned about them.
- Technology has moved away from sharing and toward ownership. This suits software and hardware companies just fine: They create new, bloated programs that require more…
- The early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelancers, and then transact directly with peers over…
- The iPad - contrary to the way most people thought about it - is not a tablet computer running the Apple operating system. It's more…
- The reason why Apple computers have worked so well over time is that, unlike Microsoft, they don't bend over backward to be compatible with every…
- When Steve Jobs toured Xerox PARC and saw computers running the first operating system that used Windows and a mouse, he assumed he was looking…
- Whether it's watching a $4,000 laptop fall off the conveyor belt at airport security, contending with a software conflict that corrupted your file management system,…
- Computers don't kill books; people do.
More Computer Quotes
- All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are… — Isaac Asimov
- A lot of these kids I think are more content just to be on Facebook and the computer than they are to… — Dave Attell
- Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life. — Dave Barry
- A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you. — Daniel J. Boorstin
- 'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen.… — Geraldine Brooks
- I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use… — Bill Viola
- I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. — Isaac Asimov