“The computer is the Proteus of machines. Its essence is its universality, its power to simulate.”— Seymour Papert
“The idea of 'learning to learn' is a slogan of modern education. It is not a new idea. But it has new meaning in the context of the computer.”— Seymour Papert
“The old computing is about what computers can do, the new computing is about what users can do.”— Ben Shneiderman
“First electricity, now telephones. Sometimes I feel as if I'm living in an H.G. Wells novel.”— Maggie Smith
“Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.”— Patti Smith
“The difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important.”— Neal Stephenson
“If you look at the history of technology, it's been a process of putting more and more things that are routine into the technology.”— Lawrence H. Summers
“It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too.”— Eugene Wigner
“All I had to do was to get the computer to do the work. The problem was that the computer was as obstinate as any human being.”— Kenneth G. Wilson
“Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes part of the scenery. They're backgrounds for the special effects.”— Natalie Wood
“The Berlin Wall is down, and the world is wired. The flow of capital is now driven by the new information standard.”— Walter Wriston