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Joseph Weizenbaum Quotes

Best Quotes by Joseph Weizenbaum (Top 3)

  1. The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no stage director, no emperor, however powerful, has ever exercised such absolute authority to arrange a stage or field of battle and to command such unswervingly dutiful actors or troops.
  2. The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.
  3. A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.