Computer Quotations | Page 4

Megahertz: This is really, really big hertz.

We created the hierarchical, pyramidal, managerial system because we needed it to keep track of people and things people did; with the computer to keep track, we can restructure our institutions horizontally.

I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal.

Just because someone can sit behind a computer screen and have a different name and hide themselves, they feel like they can do anything to anyone.

Use a personal firewall. Configure it to prevent other computers, networks and sites from connecting to you, and specify which programs are allowed to connect to the net automatically.

Protecting yourself is very challenging in the hostile environment of the Internet. Imagine a global environment where an unscrupulous person from the other side of the planet can probe your computer for weaknesses and exploit them to gain access to your most sensitive secrets.

My CPU is a neural net processor; a learning computer.

I'm really hopeless with technology - I don't even have a computer.

Nothing wrong with computer as things. They can work wonders in communications and business and medicine and everything else.

Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.