A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. Emo Philips
Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society. Kent Conrad
Don’t Be Evil. Google company slogan
Computer’s your life, aren’t they? The Net 1995 starring Sandra Bullock & Jeremy Northam & Dennis Miller & Diane Baker & Wendy Gazelle & Ken Howard & Robert Gossett & Wren T Brown et al, director Irwin Winkler, him to her
Moneypenny, you are better than a computer. The Man With the Golden Gun 1974 starring Roger Moore & Britt Ekland & Desmond Llewelyn & Christopher Lee & Maud Adams & Herve Villechaize & Clifton James & Richard Loo & Soon-Tek Oh & Louis Maxwell et al, director Guy Hamilton
I am Holly, the ship’s computer, with an IQ of 6,000. The same IQ as 6,000 PE teachers. Red Dwarf: Future Echoes s1e2, BBC 1989
23,811. I was in love once: a Sinclair ZX-81. Red Dwarf s2e4: Stasis Leak, Holly
I am Queeg Six. The Red Dwarf back-up computer. Red Dwarf s2e5: Queeg, Queeg Six to crew
Personally I don’t much like the 2X4B – it’s a jerky middle name. Red Dwarf s3e6: The Last Day, Kryten to Rimmer
You really think that air-head of a computer can become a genius again? Red Dwarf s4e4: White Hole, Rimmer to Kryten et al
There are certain things men must do to remain men. Your computer would take that away. Star Trek: The Ultimate Computer s2e24, Kirk to Doctor Daystrum
Computers make excellent and efficient servants. But I have no wish to serve under them. ibid. Spock to Kirk
Are you actually suggesting we indulge in one of those disgusting Ferengi sex programs? Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s1e17: The Forsaken, alien to alien opening scene
This is no computer: this is my arch enemy. ibid. O’Brien
Even your own computer program turns against you. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s3e7: Civil Defense, Garak to Gul Dukat
Captain, bad news. The life-form’s infiltrated the main computer matrix. Star Trek: Voyager s6e25: The Haunting of Deck Twelve, B’E’lanna
Social engineering (the analysis and automation of a society) requires the correlation of great amounts of constantly changing economic information (data), so a high-speed computerized data-processing system was necessary which could race ahead of the society and predict when society would arrive for capitulation.
Relay computers were too slow, but the electronic computer, invented in 1946 by J Presper Eckert and John W Mauchly, filled the bill.
The next breakthrough was the development of the simplex method of linear programming in 1947 by the mathematician George B Dantzig.
Then in 1948, the transistor, invented by J Bardeen, W H Brattain, and W Shockley, promised great expansion of the computer field by reducing space and power requirements.
With these three inventions under their direction, those in positions of power strongly suspected that it was possible for them to control the whole world with the push of a button.
Immediately, the Rockefeller Foundation got in on the ground floor by making a four-year grant to Harvard College, funding the Harvard Economic Research Project for the study of the structure of the American Economy. One year later, in 1949, The United States Air Force joined in.
In 1952 the grant period terminated, and a high-level meeting of the Elite was held to determine the next phase of social operations research. The Harvard project had been very fruitful, as is borne out by the publication of some of its results in 1953 suggesting the feasibility of economic (social) engineering. (Studies in the Structure of the American Economy – copyright 1953 by Wassily Leontief, International Science Press Inc White Plains New York).
Engineered in the last half of the decade of the 1940s, the new Quiet War machine stood, so to speak, in sparkling gold-plated hardware on the showroom floor by 1954.
With the creation of the maser in 1954, the promise of unlocking unlimited sources of fusion atomic energy from the heavy hydrogen in seawater and the consequent availability of unlimited social power was a possibility only decades away. The combination was irresistible.
The Quiet War was quietly declared by the International Elite at a meeting held in 1954.
Although the silent weapons system was nearly exposed 13 years later, the evolution of the new weapon-system has never suffered any major setbacks.
This volume marks the 25th anniversary of the beginning of the Quiet War. Already this domestic war has had many victories on many fronts throughout the world. Bill Cooper, Top Secret: Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars, Operations Research Technical Manual TM-SW7905.1
A secret invention built here at Bletchley Park in rural England. Colossus: the most complex machine that had yet been built. Michael Moseley, The Story of Science: Power, Proof and Passion, BBC 2010
A new frontier: cyber-space ... At first computers don’t seem like a revolution. America: The Story of the US: Millennium, History 2010
Computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of the catgut. Robert Moog
Maybe we are The Sims and our Creator is sitting at the controls of a super-computer. Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman: Is There a Creator? Science 2010
In the past century physicists have discovered that matter really is made of tiny little pixels, fundamental indivisible particles billions of times smaller than an atom. ibid.
Our world is pixelated and only assumes definite form when observed. The very same way our computer simulations behave. ibid.
Our world bears all the hallmarks of one that is simulated ... Who would be more likely to simulate humans than humans from the future – our descendants. ibid.
The vision of the machine with a brain began to obsess Turing. Code-Breakers: Bletchley Park’s Lost Heroes, BBC 2011
This is a British mathematician called Bill Tutte. You won’t have heard of him but in 1943 he pulled off what many believe was the greatest intellectual feat of World War II. It shortened the war and saved millions of lives. ibid.
This is a former GPO engineer called Tommy Flowers. In 1944 he turned Tutte’s mathematical ideas into the world’s first computer. He died in 1988. ibid.
Already the true history of computing was being corrupted. ibid.
In 1952 the greatest code breaker of all time [Alan Turing] who had played a critical role in saving Britain from the Nazis was in torment. He was also a recently convicted criminal. Britain’s Greatest Codebreaker, Channel 4 2011
He was also the visionary scientist that gave birth to the computer. ibid.
During his lifetime Turing’s achievements went unrecognised. Instead he was disgraced simply for being a homosexual. ibid.
During the War he had been the genius of Station X the secret code-breaking headquarters at Bletchley Park. ibid.
The breaking of the German Navy’s enigma code. ibid.
On Computable Numbers, With an Application to the Entscheidungs-problem by A M Turing. Received 28 May 1936 - Read 12 November 1936. ibid.
Turing came to an astonishing conclusion: that any conceivable mathematical calculation can be done by a single device shuffling ones and zeros back and forth. ibid.
This was the moment the digital age began. (Code & Computer) ibid.
The vision of the machine with a brain began to obsess Turing. ibid.
Mind a Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy 1) Computer Machinery And Intelligence by A M Turing ... I propose to consider the question, Can machines think? ibid.
Artificial intelligence was a staggering intellectual leap. ibid.
His 1950 paper established Turing as the twentieth century’s visionary of the new computer world. ibid.
He’d aimed his code-breaking genius at a profound mystery: the mathematical foundations of the living world – the code of Nature itself: The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis by A M Turing FRS University of Manchester (Received 9 November 1951 - Revised 15 March 1952) ibid.
Turing showed that chemicals following incredibly simple mathematical rules can spontaneously create these patterns in Nature. ibid.
He noticed his brain was being affected too. ibid.