It (the computer) is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically. It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. |
It [the computer] is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated. |
Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. |
Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal-- a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is. |
Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower. |
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. |
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. |
The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. |