I haven’t looked at the book, but I don’t interpret that quote to mean computers “can do anything” which seems to be your interpretation. Your second link, for

I haven’t looked at the book, but I don’t interpret that quote to mean computers “can do anything” which seems to be your interpretation. Your second link, for example, seems to be about the undecidability of some problem. The author’s quote clearly refers to computable problems so this undecidable problem is not under discussion here. And I’m sure the author could be both highfalutin and plain wrong a lot, but you just picked a poor exemplar.