We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal.
If computers remain far worse than us at image recognition, a certain over-confident combination of man and machine can elsewhere take inaccuracy to a whole new level.
I wish people would turn off their computers, go outside, talk to people, touch people, lick people, enjoy each other's company and smell each other on the rump.
Video games and computers have become babysitters for kids.
I am such a gearhead. In my recording studio, I personally engineer and edit everything on computers.
Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.
Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.
They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.
I detest computers. If you had a device like that 30 years ago that froze up constantly, misbehaved constantly, lost your information and screwed up when you needed it the most, it would have been laughable.
The manufacture and running of all the world's computers, the toxicity of the hardware mountains that we currently dump on other countries; all this can be totted up on the environmental account of web-users and its authors.
Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders.
I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world.
When I helped to develop the open standards that computers use to communicate with one another across the Net, I hoped for but could not predict how it would blossom and how much human ingenuity it would unleash.
Ignorance breeds antipathy. Until I got to know how computers worked, I didn't want anything to do with them. I said, 'Well, why do I need them? I write letters.' Which I still do.
It's interesting to see what people are saying about me. I like keep up with the latest rumors! A while back there was a rumor that I was going to do a film with Demi Moore about the takeover of Commodore computers!
I thought of computers as very low class. I thought of myself as a pure mathematician and was interested in partial differential equations and topology and things like that.
I've never really been very interested in computers themselves. I don't watch them; I watch how people behave around them. That's becoming more difficult to do because everything is around them.
People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium.
What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?
There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers.
