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The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.

We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal.

There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

Something else has happened with computers.

What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.

Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.

We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.

Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there.

Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.

It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was - and is - respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills.

Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.

What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?

I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.

While the recent addition of the National Guard providing a support role manning computers and cameras has allowed more Border Patrol agents to work the field, more agents are still needed.

Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.

Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.