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Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?

Clifford Stoll
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I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

Stephen Hawking
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It [the computer] is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated. -Alan Kay
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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.

Jef Raskin
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

Ken Olsen
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Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. -James Magary
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To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

Robert Orben
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Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.

Edward Shepherd Mead
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Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. -Rick Cook
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The computer is a moron.

Peter F. Drucker
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The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.

Werner Von Braun
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The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation. -Tim Berners-lee
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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.

Doug Larson
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee - that will do them in.

Bradley's Bromide
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. -Isaac Asimov
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The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.

Joseph Weizenbaum
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

Alan Kay
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If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. -Robert X. Cringely
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The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little.

Joe Martin
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It (the computer) is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically. It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools.

Alan Kay
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Most computer users don't think about backing up their software until the day they lose it. -Don Rittner
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The utility model of computing - computing resources delivered over the network in much the same way that electricity or telephone service reaches our homes and offices today - makes more sense than ever.

Scott Mcnealy
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E-commerce businesses, even e-commerce specialists, have yet to realize that the WWW is first and foremost an emotional experience. Few websites reflect this important priority.

Grant Fairley
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Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC. -Andy Grove
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In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.

John C. Dvorak
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If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and no-one dares criticize it.

Pierre Gallois
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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. -Andy Rooney
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To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer.

Dan Rather
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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

Isaac Asimov
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Computers can now keep a man's every transgression recorded in a permanent memory bank, duplicating with complex programming and intricate wiring a feat his wife handles quite well without fuss or fanfare. -Lane Olinghouse
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