Marvin Minsky Quotes

I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.

Computers get better faster than anything else ever.

There is no doubt that, since 1977 and the launch of Apple II - the first computer it produced for the mass market - many things which used to be done on paper, or on the telephone, have been done easier and faster on a screen.

The whole thought of a career with computers - given that hardly anybody even knew what they were - it wasn't even a concept.

The tech world is not a new phenomenon; it's a new era.

The power of the computer is starting to spread.

I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.

But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out.

The thing that's changed the most has just been the rapid technology.

The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1.

I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?'

I'm named after a computer and grew up really interested in them.

... as the world rapidly becomes a civilization of machines, the masters of machines will increasingly be the ones in control of the world.

The Cube is approximately - it's around the same age as the Internet, and in that time, we had no personal computers yet.

I used to have a phone machine that you turn 'on' and 'off,' which was great. Now, it's so technological that it's like going down the rabbit hole.

Weird how fast technology changes.

I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.

Computer science is not as old as physics; it lags by a couple of hundred years. However, this does not mean that there is significantly less on the computer scientist's plate than on the physicist's: younger it may be, but it has had a far more intense upbringing!

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.

People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.

We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.

The great growling engine of change - technology.

I started in comics in 2005, ten years ago, and at that time, I didn't have a cell phone. I don't even think I had a computer myself, you know. And just in those ten years, how much technology has changed.