Computers Quote by Edsger Dijkstra

The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.

— Anonymous

The programmers have another saying: 'The question of whether a machine can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine…

— Charles Stross

Asking if computers can think is like asking if submarines can swim.

— Anonymous

“Asking whether computers can think is like asking whether submarines can swim.”

— CJS Hayward

The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better…

— Larry Page

What's most interesting about trying to figure out AI is the questions that it forces you to ask about the nature of consciousness.

— Oscar Isaac

If you ask people whether a computer can be smarter than a human, 99.9 percent will say that's science fiction. Actually, it's inevitable. It's…

— Anthony Levandowski

“For seven and a half million years, Deep Thought computed and calculated, and in the end announced that the answer was in fact 42-…

— Douglas Adams

Thinking of the universe as a computer is controversial.

— Seth Lloyd

The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.

— David Smith

Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid: humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination.

— Albert Einstein

“For instance, a race of hyperintelligent pan-dimensional beings once built themselves a gigantic supercomputer called Deep Thought to calculate once and for all the…

— Douglas Adams