Instruction Set Computer

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

    “I turn my gaze
    Back to the instruction manual which has made me dream of
    Guadalajara.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “Thou shalt not set up Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey;
    Because the first is crazed beyond all hope,
    The second drunk, the third so quaint and mouthy:”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “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)