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Anon.
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The NeXT Computer: The hardware makes it a PC, the software makes it a workstation, the unit sales makes it a mainframe.
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Anon.
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Intel has announced its next chip: the Repentium.
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Anon.
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Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand.
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Robert X Cringely
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If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get one million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
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Anon.
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Want to make your computer go really fast? Throw it out a window.
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Marcus Dolengo
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The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec.
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Jeff Pesis
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Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked.
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B. F. Skinner
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The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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Clifford Stoll
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Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.
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Jean Rostand
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Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.
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Robert Orben
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To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
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Nicholas Negroponte
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Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.
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Walter Mossberg
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Why shouldn't a PC work like a refrigerator or a toaster?
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Walter F. Mondale
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What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?
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Sydney J. Harris
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The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
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Louis Gerstner
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Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.
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Sydney J. Harris
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The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
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Jean Rostand
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Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.
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Anon.
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Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
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Nicholas Negroponte
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Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.
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Walter F. Mondale
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What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?
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Bill Bulko
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Artificial Intelligence the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies.
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James Magary
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Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up.
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Bernard Avishai
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The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.
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Lee Iacocca
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If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.
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Jef Raskin
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Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
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Alvin Toffler
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.
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Louis Gerstner
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Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.
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Isaac Asimov
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I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them.
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Harold Abelson
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If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas.
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Scott McNealy
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Computers shouldn't be unusable. You don't need to know how to work a telephone switch to make a phone call, or how to use the Hoover Dam to take a shower, or how to work a nuclear-power plant to turn on the lights.
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Unknown
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Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.
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Jimmy Carter
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Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.
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Robin Green
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I am...blood. That primordial ooze. Not out there, listeners, in here. Inside this skin we wear, it only lets us think we're something else-- nice clean brains, little talking computers running around in the pursuit of happiness. We pierce this skin and what do we see Warm ooze, protoplasm churning and jesting, defecating, pulsating, life, death.
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Andy Rooney
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Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
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Man is not a machine... Although man most certainly processes information, he does not necessarily process it in the way computers do. Computers and men are not species of the same genus... However much intelligence computers may attain, now or in the fur
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Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.
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Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
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Computers All Wait at the Same Speed!
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All computers wait at the same speed.
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
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Computers run on faith, not electrons.
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They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
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Support the helpless victims of computers.
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
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Computers Rule 01001111 01001011
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Computers are useless; they can only give answers.
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It's Never Too Late to Mutate and we know our computers do it as soon as our backs are turned
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All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
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Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes.
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Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
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Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies
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Computers cut my work in half.... and the boss expects me to put it all back together!
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The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.
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Unlike human beings, computers possess the truly profound stupidity of the inanimate.
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Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
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Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
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And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople Get Ahead by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business product: a really sharp-looking report.
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"Personal computers are increasingly called upon to perform labor saving tasks, including consuming homework previously eaten by the dog.
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"Computers make excellent and efficient servants." - Spock
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"Our great computers fill the hallowed halls.": Rush
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"I eat computers for lunch." - Real live resume statement
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"Bother," said Pooh, as he struggled with the computers power switch
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"I literally did not know computers had hard disk drives." - W. Gibson
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"Are you suggesting the Lawgivers are mere computers?" Kirk
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"Computers, blondes and jazz seldom go together." - Riker
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"Ooooh... They have the Internet on computers now" - Homer Simpson
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"They fight their war with computers, Captain, totally." Spock
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Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.
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"Compassion! Maybe that's what keeps us ahead of computers." - McCoy
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"Burning computers can be hazardous to your software"
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"But what we need to know is, do people want nasally-insertable computers?"
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"Don't anthromorphize computers. They hate that."
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The fathers of the field had been pretty confusing: John von Neumann speculated about computers and the human brain in analogies sufficiently wild to be worthy of a medieval thinker, and Alan Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether
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Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.
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"NICE" computers don't go down
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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
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Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18,000 vaccuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 1
2 tons.
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"I don't fear computers. I fear the lack of them."-Azimov
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"I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them" - Asimov
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"Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable."-T. Gibb
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"What do you do for a living?" "I'm a hard drive" "What is it?" "It's something in the field of computers"
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