We made the buttons on the screen look so good you’ll want to lick them.
Computers so unreliable. Just like people.
John Connor: You don't have to do this! You don't want to do this!
Terminator: Desire is irrelevant. I am a machine.
Computers aren't the thing. They're the thing that gets us to the thing.
Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.
— There was a nuclear war. A few years from now... all this, this whole place, everything... it's gone. Just gone. There were survivors. Here, there. Nobody even knew who started it. It was the machines, Sarah.
— I don't understand.
— Defense network computers. New, powerful... hooked into everything, trusted to run it all. They say it got smart... a new order of intelligence. Then it saw all people as a threat. Not just the ones on the other side. It decided our fate in a microsecond. Extermination.
Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs: Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.
— «Keycheck space minus 0. Keychecks off, safety space minus 0». He's turning the safety systems off. Doesn't want anybody to see. Look at this next entry. It's the kicker. «White rabbit object». It did it all. With the keychecks off, the computer didn't file the keystrokes. The way to find them is to check the computer's lines of code one by one.
— How many lines of code are there?
— About two million.
Even the smartest computer will be stopped by a stupid person.
I mean, the computer is the worst — i don't know, it's the worst thing ever created. Yeah. I mean, it's worse than the clap. It's worse than cops. It's damn near as bad as shrinks, man.
He's too old to have a complicated password.
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