"When Mike was installed in Luna, he was pure thinkum, a flexible logic — "High-Optional, Logical, Multi-Evaluating Supervisor, Mark IV, Mod. L" — a HOLMES FOUR. He computed ballistics for pilotless freighters and controlled their catapult. This kept him busy less than one percent of time and Luna Authority never believed in idle hands. They kept hooking hardware into him — decision-action boxes to let him boss other computers, bank on bank of additional memories, more banks of associational neural nets, another tubful of twelve-digit random numbers, a greatly augmented temporary memory. Human brain has around ten-to-the-tenth neurons. By third year Mike had better than one and a half times that number of neuristors. And woke up."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Ch. 1
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
33 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress →
Related Quotes
""Soul?" Does a dog have a soul? How about cockroach?"
"I spent time then soothing Mike down trying to make him happy, having figured out what troubled him — thing that make…"
"That we were slaves I had known all my life — and nothing could be done about it. True, we weren't bought and sold — …"
"As it says in Bible, God fights on side of heaviest artillery."
"(Correction — are no homely women. Some more beautiful than others.)"
"Genius is where you find it."
"I'm a Fifth Internationalist, most of the Organization is. Oh, we don't rule out anyone going our way; it's a united …"
"A rational anarchist believes that concepts such as "state" and "society" and "government" have no existence save as …"
"Do this. Don't do that. Stay back in line. Where's tax receipt? Fill out form. Let's see license. Submit six copies. …"
"You have put your finger on the dilemma of all government — and the reason I am an anarchist. The power to tax, once …"