Famous quotes containing the words instruction, set and/or computer:
“The care of a house, the conduct of a home, the management of children, the instruction and government of servants, are as deserving of scientific treatment and scientific professors and lectureships as are the care of farms, the management of manure and crops, and the raising and care of stock.”
—Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)
“Groot: Now wait a minute, Quo. You really ain’t gonna take a man’s only set of teeth, are ya?
Quo: Uh huh.
Groot: Yeah, but I gotta use ‘em for eatin’.
Quo: Come grub you get ‘em.
Groot: Whad ya’ gonna do with ‘em?
Quo: My name now Two-Jaw Quo.”
—Borden Chase [Frank Fowler] (1900–1971)
“What, then, is the basic difference between today’s computer and an intelligent being? It is that the computer can be made to see but not to perceive. What matters here is not that the computer is without consciousness but that thus far it is incapable of the spontaneous grasp of pattern—a capacity essential to perception and intelligence.”
—Rudolf Arnheim (b. 1904)