Joseph Weizenbaum Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.”
-- Joseph Weizenbaum

#Technology #Computer #Program
“Being personally acquainted with a number of Waldorf students, I can say that they come closer to realizing their own potential than practically anyone I know.”
-- Joseph Weizenbaum

#Numbers #Students #Realizing
“A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.”
-- Joseph Weizenbaum

#Technology #Mind #Different
“The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no stage director, no emperor, however powerful, has ever exercised such absolute authority to arrange a stage or field of battle and to command such unswervingly dutiful actors or troops.”
-- Joseph Weizenbaum

#Powerful #Battle #Directors
“Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive”
-- Joseph Weizenbaum

#Children #Book #Computer
“Man is not a machine, ... although man most certainly processes information, he does not necessarily process it in the way computers do. Computers and men are not species of the same genus. .... No other organism, and certainly no computer, can be made to confront genuine human problems in human terms. ... However much intelligence computers may attain, now or in the future, theirs must always be an intelligence alien to genuine human problems and concerns.”
-- Joseph Weizenbaum

#Men #Doe #Machines
“Science promised man power. But, as so often happens when people are seduced by promises of power, the price is servitude and impotence. Power is nothing if it is not the power to choose.”
-- Joseph Weizenbaum

#Men #People #Promise
“I think that children have a power to imagine that is almost magical when compared to the adult imagination, and this is something irrevocable that a child loses when he or she becomes bound by logic. We adults continue to have our children”
-- Joseph Weizenbaum

#Children #Thinking #Imagination

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