Why shouldn't a PC work like a refrigerator or a toaster?

Why shouldn't a PC work like a refrigerator or a toaster?

The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m sec sec.

The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m sec sec.

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no read more

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you read more

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.

You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think read more

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. -Max Frisch.

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. -Max Frisch.

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.