Are We Too Dependent On Computers Quotes & Sayings

We'd spent eleven hours together. That had to be some kind of record for a second date that didn't involve a sleepover or a kidnapping. — Abigail Barnette

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. — Alan Cooper

Everybody wished to confess, not to admit anything. The sins they remembered, before the end of the world, were general rather than particular. Nobody even knew how to tell the time. Banks of computers around the planet were predicted to crash when the end of the millennium arrived. All the machinery dependent on electronic calculation would go: jumbo jets and atomic power plants, satellites and radio stations, nuclear submarines beneath the ice caps and the stock exchange in New York. Each sin demanded to be told to its full extent before the day arrived. The culprits counted them out one after the other, arriving at a total just as if they were finding the sums of the cents in their hands. But there was no simple way to measure sin. — Imraan Coovadia

Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love. — Susan Sontag

Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness. — Gene Fowler

Yes, I was fat, but I dealt with it by simply never thinking about it. It is useful, when you are fat, to have a lot of other things to think about. — Roger Ebert

I believe in nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of the imagination. - JOHN KEATS — Jandy Nelson

Like the lotus which thrives in mud, the potential for realization grows in the rich soil of everyday life — Dalai Lama

Nathaniel Taggart had been a penniless adventurer who had come from somewhere in New England and built a railroad across a continent, in the days of the first steel rails. His railroad still stood; his battle to build it had dissolved into a legend, because people preferred not to understand it or to believe it possible. — Ayn Rand

Having knowledge of an unethical act and allowing it to continue can spread a contagion that can affect multiple beings in society — Bertrand Russell