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)

    I grew wild
    Even accusing Heaven because
    It had set down among its laws:
    Nothing that we love over-much
    Is ponderable to our touch.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    The archetype of all humans, their ideal image, is the computer, once it has liberated itself from its creator, man. The computer is the essence of the human being. In the computer, man reaches his completion.
    Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)