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A computer can be a useful and indispensable tool. But if we allow it to devour our time with vain, unproductive, and sometimes destructive pursuits, it becomes an entangling net.

The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.

The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.

I think that what computers have done is just disastrous to the language.

Once you have a computer that can do a few things - strictly speaking, one that has a certain 'sufficient set' of basic procedures - it can do basically anything any other computer can do. This, loosely, is the basis of the great principle of 'Universality'.

Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer.

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

In terms of the brain, you can in a crude way think of the human brain as a computer.