Computer Power Quotes

The future of computer power is pure simplicity.

Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces. As these machines leak into every corner of our lives, they will annoy us, infuriate us, and even kill a few of us. In turn, we will be tempted to kill our computers, but we won't dare because we are already utterly, irreversibly dependent on these hopeful monsters that make modern life possible.

I saw the logarithmic growth of computer power.

I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world. They're just sitting there. I can hit them with a two by four.

Police states cannot endure under the advance of the computer because it increases the power of the people far faster than the powers of surveillance.

The power of the computer is starting to spread.

In the early days, computers inspired widespread awe and the popular press dubbed them giant brains. In fact, the computer's power resembled that of a bulldozer; it did not harness subtlety, though subtlety went into its design.

If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.

If one ox could not do the job they did not try to grow a bigger ox, but used two oxen. When we need greater computer power, the answer is not to get a bigger computer, but . . .to build systems of computers and operate them in parallel.

The early personal computers were not very powerful so the idea of feeding their program into a small amount of memory requires immense skill.

Computers are very powerful tools, but in the simulated world of the computer, everything has to be calculated.

People tend to look at processing power as how to gauge a piece of hardware is powerful for us.

Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.

Chess is a unique battlefield for human minds and computers - human intuition, our creativity, fantasy, our logic, versus the brute force of calculation and a very small portion of accumulated knowledge infused by other human beings. So in chess we can compare these two incompatible things and probably make projections into our future. Is there danger that the human mind will be overshadowed by the power of computers, or we can still survive?

Bandwidth grows at least three times faster than computer power.

As computers have become more powerful, computer graphics have advanced to the point where it's possible to create photo-realistic images. The bottleneck wasn't, 'How do we make pixels prettier?' It was, 'How do we engage with them more?'