Able Quote by Steve Jobs

This revolution, the information revolution, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy.

— Steve Jobs

“Not only are the new technologies exponential, digital, and combinatorial, but most of the gains are still ahead of us. In the next twenty-four…

— Erik Brynjolfsson

In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city,…

— Douglas Engelbart

There's so many things happening with computers and what-not, where we may be able to live until 150 and even longer, but if the…

— Lisa Rinna

The future of computer power is pure simplicity.

— Douglas Adams

“The computer is credited with the capacity to create unsuspected amounts of busywork. We are straight on our way towards an energy-obsessed low energy…

— Ivan Illich

A wise and clear-eyed book, Future Hype challenges the conventional wisdom about technological change and provides a fresh perspective on our so-called computer age.

— Nicholas G. Carr

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

— Aaron Swartz

THE COMPUTER IS JUST AN INSTRUMENT for doing faster what we already know how to do slower. All pretensions to computer intelligence and paradise-tomorrow…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

The power efficiency of computing has improved by a factor of a billion from the ENIAC computer of the 1950s to today's handheld devices.…

— R. Stanley Williams

My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.

— Edward Abbey

Ever since I first used a computer in the early '80s, I've thought of it as a fundamentally new medium for the dissemination of…

— Mike McCue