Joseph Weizenbaum famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.
-- Joseph Weizenbaum

#Technology #Computer #Program
Being personally acquainted with a number of Waldorf students, I can say that they come closer to realizing their own potential than practically anyone I know.
-- Joseph Weizenbaum

#Numbers #Students #Realizing
A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.
-- Joseph Weizenbaum

#Technology #Mind #Different
The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no stage director, no emperor, however powerful, has ever exercised such absolute authority to arrange a stage or field of battle and to command such unswervingly dutiful actors or troops.
-- Joseph Weizenbaum

#Powerful #Battle #Directors
Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive
-- Joseph Weizenbaum

#Children #Book #Computer
Man is not a machine, ... although man most certainly processes information, he does not necessarily process it in the way computers do. Computers and men are not species of the same genus. .... No other organism, and certainly no computer, can be made to confront genuine human problems in human terms. ... However much intelligence computers may attain, now or in the future, theirs must always be an intelligence alien to genuine human problems and concerns.
-- Joseph Weizenbaum

#Men #Doe #Machines
Science promised man power. But, as so often happens when people are seduced by promises of power, the price is servitude and impotence. Power is nothing if it is not the power to choose.
-- Joseph Weizenbaum

#Men #People #Promise
I think that children have a power to imagine that is almost magical when compared to the adult imagination, and this is something irrevocable that a child loses when he or she becomes bound by logic. We adults continue to have our children
-- Joseph Weizenbaum

#Children #Thinking #Imagination

Paintings! They're like TV, but they don't move.
Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you.
I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.
It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges.
Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
The Woman's Party is made up of women of all races, creeds and nationalities who are united on the one program of working to raise the status of women.
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.

Joseph Weizenbaum famous quotes

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