Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up.
In pioneer days they used oxen for heavy pulling, and when one ox couldn't budge a log, they didn't try to grow a larger ox. We shouldn't be trying for bigger computers, but for more systems of computers.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway."
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18,000 vaccuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 1 2 tons.
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in.