Bookkeeping Quote by Cliff Shaw

A system that works for one person won't be perfect for another... Individuality is a major part of expanding knowledge.

— Georges St-Pierre

The life-efficiency and adaptability of the computer must be questioned. Its judicious use depends upon the availability of its human employers quite literally to…

— Lewis Mumford

When developers of digital technologies design a program that requires you to interact with a computer as if it were a person, they ask…

— Jaron Lanier

The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at…

— Niklaus Wirth

“Moreover, individual users do not have to develop everything they need on their own:”

— Eric von Hippel

For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery.…

— Gary Wolf

In our age of individualism, we see computers as ways through which we can express our individuality. But the truth is that the computers…

— Adam Curtis

Once you have a truly massive amount of information integrated as knowledge, then the human-software system will be superhuman, in the same sense that…

— Douglas Lenat

“By developing a partnership with your computer alter ego in which you teach each other and each do what you do best, you will…

— Ray Dalio

“Human beings are complex information consumers: they have active needs, passions, and preferences. They lead different lifestyles — some that you will never be…

— Laura Busche

Computers are the central access; information processing based on a spiral network, similar to that which is the chaos of existence itself, the analysis…

— Frederick Lenz

Because of their exceptional ability to automatically elicit, record, and analyze information, A.I. systems are in a prime position to acquire confidential information.

— Oren Etzioni