(home)


Starting at 4:21: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKWGGDXe5MA&t=261s

A computer is a, high-class, super speed, nice, streamlined filing system.

...

One of the miseries of life is that everybody names thing a little bit wrong

...

[A] computer does not primarily compute in the sense of doing arithmetic. Strange. Although they call them computers that's not what they primarily do. They primarily are filing systems. People in the computer business say they're not primarily computers, they're data handlers.

Backlinks