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First we thought the PC was a calculator.
Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII -- and we
thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought
it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a
brochure.
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-Douglas Adams
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Computers are composed of nothing more than
logic gates stretched out to the horizon in a vast numerical irrigation
system.
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-Stan Augarten
State of the Art: A Photographic History of the Integrated Circuit
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A computer lets you make more mistakes
faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions
of handguns and tequila.
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-Mitch Ratcliffe
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Computing machines perhaps can do the work
of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of
one extraordinary man.
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-E. B. White
"The Making of the Atomic Bomb"
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We've heard that a million monkeys at a
million keyboards could produce The Complete Works of Shakespeare; now,
thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.
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-Robert Wilensky
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