Computer Limitations Quotes

The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Man is unbelievably slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. The marriage of the two is a force beyond calculation.

A computer, by definition, cannot be held accountable for anything because there is no mechanism to hold it to account, short of turning off the electricity supply or destroying the hardware. Only humans can be accountable.

A computer is a great device because it enables you to do anything which is automatic, anything that you don't need your understanding for. Understanding is outside a computer. It doesn't understand.

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.

Man-made computers are limited in their performance by finite processing speed and memory. So, too, the cosmic computer is limited in power by its age and the finite speed of light.

The largest and most powerful computers are still no match for the smallest and weakest humans.

Bill Gates says, 'Wait till you can see what your computer can become.' But it’s you who should be doing the becoming. What you can become is the miracle you were born to work-not the damn fool computer.

It's little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.

If computers remain far worse than us at image recognition, a certain over-confident combination of man and machine can elsewhere take inaccuracy to a whole new level.

There's nothing wrong with pitch counts. But not when it's spit out by a computer, and the computer does not look at an individual's mechanics. And you can't look at his genes. It should come from the individual and the pitching coach and the manager.

A computer does not smell ... if a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better… And it stays with you forever. But the computer doesn’t do that for you. I’m sorry.

The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computers’ rigidity.

My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.

It's important to be informed about issues like usability, reliability, security, privacy, and some of the inherent limitations of computers.

We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.

A computer is a wonderful thing, but it's cold, and what comes out of it is sort of cold.

The computer, being a mechanical moron, can handle only quantifiable data.

[I]nside every computer, there is a hidden man being bored.

The attribution of intelligence to machines, crowds of fragments, or other nerd deities obscures more than it illuminates. When people are told that a computer is intelligent, they become prone to changing themselves in order to make the computer appear to work better, instead of demanding that the computer be changed to become more useful.

When I was finishing grad school, the hot new PC was the IBM 286. Bulky. Immobile. Expensive. I touched-typed easily and quickly, but nevertheless, I realized that the machine was a chain.

My computer must be broken: whenever I ask a wrong question, it gives a wrong answer.

We don't believe that you should ever replace physical education. Even in a thousand years, a computer will never be able to do so.

The basic idea of Games With a Purpose is that we are taking a problem that computers cannot yet solve, and we are getting people to solve it for us while they are playing a game.

The computer is a moron.

Without the aesthetic, the computer is but a mindless speed machine, producing effects without substance, form without relevant content, or content without meaningful form.