Computing Machines Quotes
- Men are noisy, narrow-band devices, but their nervous systems have very many parallel and simultaneously active channels. Relative to men, computing machines are very fast… — J. C. R. Licklider
- Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary… — Elwyn Brooks White
- The hope is that, in not too many years, human brains and computing machines will be coupled together very tightly, and that the resulting partnership… — J. C. R. Licklider
- The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is… — Donald Knuth
- We are not the only avatars of humanity. Once our computing machines achieved self-consciousness, they became part of this design. — Zoheb