— Edsger W. Dijkstra Dutch computer scientist 1930 - 2002
Dijkstra (1984) The threats to computing science http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD898.html (EWD898).
1980s
„The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.“
— Charles Stross, buch Accelerando
Quelle: Accelerando (2005), Chapter 1 (“Lobsters”), p. 1 (quoting Edsger W. Dijkstra)
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— Larry Page American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur 1973
Quoted in Ben Elgin, "Google's Goal: "Understand Everything," http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_18/b3881010_mz001.htm BusinessWeek (2004-05-03).
— Noam Chomsky american linguist, philosopher and activist 1928
Powers and Prospects, 1996 https://chomsky.info/prospects01/.
Quotes 1990s, 1995-1999
— Karl Hess American journalist 1923 - 1994
Foreword (1984) to The Market for Liberty (1970)
— Naguib Mahfouz Egyptian writer 1911 - 2006
Cited in: Michael J. Gelb (1996) Thinking for a change: discovering the power to create, communicate and lead. p. 96
„I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.“
— Don DeLillo, buch Weißes Rauschen
Quelle: White Noise (1984)
— B.F. Skinner American behaviorist 1904 - 1990
Contingencies of Reinforcement: A Theoretical Analysis (1969).
Quelle: Contingencies Of Reinforcement: A Theoretical Analysis
— Nick Herbert American physicist 1936
Quelle: Quantum Reality - Beyond The New Physics, Chapter 13, The Future Of Quantum Reality, p. 238
— Barack Obama 44th President of the United States of America 1961
2009, First Inaugural Address (January 2009)
Kontext: What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them — that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply. The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified. Where the answer is yes, we intend to move forward. Where the answer is no, programs will end.
— Carlos Gershenson Mexican researcher 1978
Quelle: Design and Control of Self-organizing Systems (2007), p. 29
— Newton Lee American computer scientist
Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2014
„Sometimes questions can be more cruel than insults“
— Jenny Han, buch To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Quelle: To All the Boys I've Loved Before
„Sometimes a question can hurt more than an answer.“
— Sarah Dessen, buch Along for the Ride
Quelle: Along for the Ride
— Niels Bohr Danish physicist 1885 - 1962
As quoted in a letter written from J. Kalckar to John A. Wheeler dated June 10, 1977, which appears in Wheeler's "Law Without Law," pg 207.
— Margaret Mead American anthropologist 1901 - 1978
Attributed in American Quotations (1992) by Gorton Carruth and Eugene H. Ehrlich, p. 149
1990s
— Bernard Lown American cardiologist developer of the DC defibrillator and the cardioverter, as well as a recipient of the Nobel Peace… 1921
A Prescription for Hope (1985)
Kontext: The hope of a benevolent civilization was shattered in the blood-soaked trenches of the First World War. The "war to end all wars" claimed sixteen million lives, and left embers which kindled an even more catastrophic conflagration.
Over the sorry course of 5,000 years of endless conflicts, some limits had been set on human savagery. Moral safeguards proscribed killing unarmed civilians and health workers, poisoning drinking waters, spreading infection among children and the disabled, and burning defenseless cities. But the Second World War introduced total war, unprincipled in method, unlimited in violence, and indiscriminate in victims. The ovens of Auschwitz and the atomic incineration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki inscribed a still darker chapter in the chronicle of human brutality. The prolonged agony which left 50 million dead did not provide an enduring basis for an armistice to barbarism. On the contrary, arsenals soon burgeoned with genocidal weapons equivalent to many thousands of World War II's.
The advent of the nuclear age posed an unprecedented question: not whether war would exact yet more lives but whether war would preclude human existence altogether.
— John Allen Paulos, buch A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper
Section 2, “Local, Social, and Business Issues” Chapter 11, “Company Charged with Ethnic Bias in Hiring” (p. 61)
A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper (1995)
