C.J.S. Hayward > Quotes

“Larry Wall's classic Programming Perl described the three programmer's virtues: hubris, laziness, and impatience.”
― CJS Hayward, Firestorm 2034: The Axe is Laid at the Root of the Tree

“Nobody knows how to make machines that heal after they sustain damage.”
― CJS Hayward, Firestorm 2034: The Axe is Laid at the Root of the Tree

“Alan Turing proposed the Turing Test: a computer is intelligent if you can't tell it from a human when you talk with it. No computer has been able to make it.”
― CJS Hayward, Firestorm 2034: The Axe is Laid at the Root of the Tree

“he believed in learning for the sake of learning, not learning for the sake of getting a piece of paper”
― CJS Hayward, Firestorm 2034: The Axe is Laid at the Root of the Tree

“Asking whether computers can think is like asking whether submarines can swim.”
― CJS Hayward, Firestorm 2034: The Axe is Laid at the Root of the Tree

“Trying to live on technology is trying to make technology something it cannot be.”
― CJS Hayward, Firestorm 2034: The Axe is Laid at the Root of the Tree

“she had made a conscious and counter-cultural choice to embrace silence and not fill it with noise”
― CJS Hayward, Firestorm 2034: The Axe is Laid at the Root of the Tree

“The first hackers were people in software who like solving problems and believe in freedom and helping each other. They produced a lot of computers and software.”
― CJS Hayward, Firestorm 2034: The Axe is Laid at the Root of the Tree