Civilization Quote by Gian-Carlo Rota

It was obvious that computers were going to become more a part of our lives, and they will continue to unless something dramatic happens…

— Kate Bush

Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.

— Albert Einstein

Computers can do better than ever what needn't be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly.

— Marshall McLuhan

The computer is a mechanism for acceleration: it accelerates economic activity, and this is eating up the world. It's eating up resources, it's processing,…

— Douglas Tompkins

A computer is not really like us. It is a projection of a very small part of ourselves: that portion devoted to logic, order,…

— Ellen Ullman

Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense.

— Neil Postman

A computer can be a useful and indispensable tool. But if we allow it to devour our time with vain, unproductive, and sometimes destructive…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

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

— Albert Einstein

Computers no longer interface with humans--they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and…

— Alan Cooper

Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives.

— Aaron Swartz

Eventually, we need to have computers that work differently from the way they do today and have for the past 60-plus years. We're capturing…

— Kevin Maney

Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more…

— P. J. O'Rourke