Use a computer to do what a computer is good at use people to do what people are good at

Posted on Saturday 25 June 2005

Things computers do well.
Computers are really good at math.
Computers are great at remembering every little detail you tell it. However computers don’t remember things you don’t tell it.
Computers know that 1000001 is not the same as 1000002.
Computers don’t mind doing the same thing over and over and over.

Things computers don’t do well.
Computers don’t know how to answer, “Do I look fat in these?”
Computers don’t know that it is a bad idea to have the wife, the ex wife and the girlfriend all in the reception room at the same time.
Computers are really bad at guessing what you really meant by that.
Computers do not understand sarcasm.

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