Let the mavens speak….
The Supercomputer
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
[Seymore Cray, the wise and esteemed father of the supercomputer]
Unfortunately nobody listened to Seymore. Instead they went out and bought the 1024 chicken computers. Now they are all running server chicken farms with thousands of server chickens and converting them into virtual server chickens as fast as they can.
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The Nature of Computers
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
[Joseph Campbell, the great American mythologist]
Don’t want to be too picky here, but I only remember one God in the Old Testament, and that particular God didn’t ever pull a BSOD and need a reboot.
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Computer Generated Imagery
This CGI bullshit is the death knell of cinema. If I’d wanted all that computer game bullshit, I’d have stuck my dick in a Nintendo.
[Quentin Tarantino, the discoverer of the word f**k, also a director]
Say, wasn’t there a long Japanese CGI animation in Kill Bill Vol 1?
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Artificial Intelligence
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
[Edsger Dijkstra, the great man himself, who needs no introduction to computer science students or dyed in the wool geeks. If you're neither of these, you're on your own]
Dijkstra seems to hit the nail right on the thumb here.
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Internet Search
The Star Trek computer doesn’t seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.
[Larry Page, Google co-founder]
The Google computer doesn’t seem that interesting. You ask it random questions, it thinks for a while and then provides you with answers to questions you didn’t ask mixed up with adverts for things you don’t want.
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~ Salvador Dali
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