Instruction Set Computer

Famous quotes containing the words instruction, set and/or computer:

    Everything from airplanes to kitchen blenders—and even chopsticks—comes with an instruction manual. Children, despite all their complexity, do not.
    Lawrence Kutner (20th century)

    Artists the minute they set up as artists,
    Before, that is, they are themselves accepted,
    And boys the minute they get out of college.
    I can’t help thinking those are tests to go by.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity and degeneracy. Unlike a computer, it has no replicative memory. It is historical and value driven. It forms categories by internal criteria and by constraints acting at many scales, not by means of a syntactically constructed program. The world with which the brain interacts is not unequivocally made up of classical categories.
    Gerald M. Edelman (b. 1928)