W1SEG

Amateur Radio Station

It must be emphasized that the machine does not think for itself. It may exercise some degree of judgment and discrimination, but the situations in which these are required, the criteria to be applied, and the actions to be taken according to the criteria, have all to be forseen in the program of operating instructions furnished to the machine. Use of the machine is no substitute for thought on the basic organization of a computation, only for the labour of carrying out the details of the application of that thought.
—Douglas R. Hartree

quote VM/370

The group developing VM/370 Release 1 produced at least a thousand lines of code per person per month, to the astonishment of IBM’s auditors, and they managed to enjoy themselves while they were doing it.
—Melinda Varian

W1SEG Amateur Radio Station

quote VM/370

The group developing VM/370 Release 1 produced at least a thousand lines of code per person per month, to the astonishment of IBM’s auditors, and they managed to enjoy themselves while they were doing it.
—Melinda Varian

It must be emphasized that the machine does not think for itself. It may exercise some degree of judgment and discrimination, but the situations in which these are required, the criteria to be applied, and the actions to be taken according to the criteria, have all to be forseen in the program of operating instructions furnished to the machine. Use of the machine is no substitute for thought on the basic organization of a computation, only for the labour of carrying out the details of the application of that thought.
—Douglas R. Hartree