Computers Quote by Rock Cowles

I don't know where anyone ever got the idea that technology, in and of itself, was a savior. Like all human-created 'progress,' computers are…

— Ellen Ullman

Probably no invention came more easily to man than heaven.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks…

— Mark Kennedy

“In history, and in evolution, progress is always a futile, Sisyphean struggle to stay in the same relative place by getting ever better at…

— Matt Ridley

Our experience using computers reflects a trade-off that was made fifty years ago or more.

— Paul Dourish

“Our greatest invention in the past 200 years was not a particular gadget or tool but the invention of the scientific process itself.”

— Kevin Kelly

The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face,…

— Kevin Kelly

“What I had not realized is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal…

— Joseph Weizenbaum

Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“just because of its promise of unlimited possibilities technology is an empty form like the most formalistic logic and is unable to determine the…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“Our greatest invention in the past 200 years was not a particular gadget or tool but the invention of the scientific process itself. Once…

— Kevin Kelly

“What a forced lifestyle our technology, our inventions imposed on our lives when we tried to live synonymously with computers; when we stepped inside…

— Katie Kacvinsky