Computers are composed of nothing more than logic gates stretched out to the horizon in a vast numerical irrigation system.

I think that the computer as some sort of discrete object that one owns and is very, very aware of … will become a very quaint and antique concept.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is “The computer is down”

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.

Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It’s going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.

I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.

The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.

Computer science only indicates the retrospective omnipotence of our technologies. In other words, an infinite capacity to process data (but only data — i.e. the already given) and in no sense a new vision. With that science, we are entering an era of exhaustivity, which is also an era of exhaustion.

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.