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El término "computer", en uso desde principios del siglo XVII, significaba "uno que computa": una persona que realizaba cálculos matemáticos, antes de que las calculadoras electrónicas estuvieran disponibles. Alan Turing describió al "human computer" como alguien que "se supone que sigue reglas fijas; no tiene autoridad para desviarse de ellas en ningún detalle". Equipos de personas, a menudo mujeres desde finales del siglo XIX en adelante, se utilizaron para realizar cálculos largos y a menudo tediosos; el trabajo se dividía para que pudiera hacerse en paralelo. Los mismos cálculos se realizaban con frecuencia de forma independiente por equipos separados para verificar la exactitud de los resultados.
“The Analytical Engine has no pretentions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.”
“These machines have no common sense; they have not yet learned to "think," and they do exactly as they are told, no more and no less. This fact is the hardest concept to grasp when one first tries to use a computer.”
“Dare to be gorgeous and unique. But don't ever be cryptic or otherwise unfathomable. Make it unforgettably great.”
“It used to be said of a man who had suffered a catastrophic setback in his line of work that he had been handed his head on a platter. We are being handed our heads with tweezers now.”
“The reality is that future cyber warfare will likely resemble medieval siege warfare – as critical infrastructure and vital services to a city's population are shut-down and locked-out as a result of a ransomware attack.”
“The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games.”
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