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  1. Beth Revis _ The Body Electric

    All the computers in the world are on a network. They're linked by our cuffs. But I'm a computer. Jack's a computer-Akilah-PA Young-all the cy-clones. We're all computers.You know the great thing about computers?They can be hacked.
    book-quotecomputershacking

  2. Charles Stross _ Saturn's Children

    The chip that functions abnormally will be desoldered, as they say.
    book-quotehumorcomputershammer

  3. Charles Stross _ The Atrocity Archives

    Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.
    book-quotehumourcomputersidiots

  4. Douglas Coupland _ Microserfs

    Abe said something interesting. He said that because everyone's so poor these days, the '90s will be a decade with no architectural legacy or style- everyone's too poor to put up new buildings. He said that code is the architecture of the '90s.
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  5. Douglas Adams _ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the

    Forty-two!" yelled Loonquawl. "Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' work?" "I checked it very thoroughly," said the computer, "and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.
    book-quotehumormeaning-of-lifecomputers

  6. Neal Stephenson _ Reamde

    Most of Csongor's time in T'Rain had been spent blundering about in a state of hapless newbie confusion. Only his long experience as a system administrator, struggling with Byzantine software installations, had prevented hum from plummeting into despair and simply giving up. Not that any of the sysadmin's knowledge and skills were applicable here. The psychological stance was the thing: the implicit faith, a little naive and a little cocky, that by banging his head against the problem for long enough he'd be able to break through in the end.
    book-quotecomputerspersistencesysadmins

  7. Robert D. Putnam _ Bowling Alone: The Collapse

    Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective computer-mediated communication.
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  8. Walter Isaacson _ Steve Jobs

    Was {Steve Jobs} smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius. His imaginative leaps were instinctive, unexpected, and at times magical. {...} Like a pathfinder, he could absorb information, sniff the winds, and sense what lay ahead. Steve Jobs thus became the greatest business executive of our era, the one most certain to be remembered a century from now.History will place him in the pantheon right next to Edison and Ford. More than anyone else of his time, he made products that were completely innovative, combining the power of poetry and processors. With a ferocity that could make working with him as unsettling as it was inspiring, he also built the world's most creative company. And he was able to infuse into its DNA the design sensibilities, perfectionism, and imagination that make it likely to be, even decades from now, the company that thrives best at the intersection of artistry and technology.
    book-quoteinspirationaltechnologycomputers

  9. Thomas Pynchon _ Vineland

    If patterns of ones and zeroes were "like" patterns of human lives and deaths, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long strings of ones and zeroes, then what kind of creature could be represented by a long string of lives and deaths?
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  10. Michael Crichton _ The Terminal Man

    ... we have created a man with not one brain but two. ... This new brain is intended to control the biological brain. ... The patient's biological brain is the peripheral terminal -- the only peripheral terminal -- for the new computer. ... And therefore the patient's biological brain, indeed his whole body, has become a terminal for the new computer. We have created a man who is one single, large, complex computer terminal. The patient is a read-out device for the new computer, and is helpless to control the readout as a TV screen is helpless to control the information presented on it.
    book-quotescience-fictioncomputers
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