I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. |
If automobiles had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside |
If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee - that will do them in |
If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act. |
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. |
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Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC. |
Like medieval peasants, computer manufacturers and millions of users are locked in a seemingly eternal lease with their evil landlord, who comes around every two years to collect billions of dollars of taxes in return for mediocre services |
Like medieval peasants, computer manufacturers and millions of users are locked in a seemingly eternal lease with their evil landlord, who comes around every two years to collect billions of dollars of taxes in return for mediocre services |
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all. |
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft, and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor |
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft, and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor |
Most computer users don't think about backing up their software until the day they lose it. |
My computer dating bureau came up with a perfect gentleman. Still, I've got another three goes. |