„(о планшетном компьютере, на котором можно работать без клавиатуры, делая записи прямо на экране) «Обещаю, что дешевле будет купить этот компьютер, чем набор учебников для полноценного курса обучения!»“

Источник: "Шот Жизни"

Из выступления в штаб-квартире Microsoft

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
Интервью, опубликованное в The Guardian в мае 2011 года
Источник: Stephen Hawking: 'There is no heaven; it's a fairy story', Ian Sample, 15 May 2011, The Guardian, 2014-11-08, en http://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/may/15/stephen-hawking-interview-there-is-no-heaven,

“Let’s look at their technology… They buy computers. They rent a room. Uh, they put the computers in the room. They buy electricity and plug it in. They then buy an Oracle database to run on those computers and then they buy Oracle middleware to build their applications. Oh, excuse me, and then they build this little itty-bitty application for salesforce automation… Most of the technology at Salesforce.com is ours… We think Salesforce.com has got terrific underlying technology… In fact, everything they run is on an Oracle database. We think the Oracle database is fabulous cloud technology. But they don’t stop there. On top of the Oracle database they build their applications using — what is it? Oracle middleware. Oh, my God.”
Eric Savitz. Oracle To Salesforce.com: You Guys Are Useless, Come Keynote Our Conference//Barron’s, 2009-10-09 http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2009/10/09/oracle-to-salesforcecom-you-guys-are-useless-come-keynote-our-conference/. О компании Salesforce.com и их облачной риторике
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Интервью «Macworld» (февраль 2004 г.)
We think basically you watch television to turn your brain off, and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on.