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" I don't consider myself a Jewish writer. "

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" I think technical people now should learn literature, because literature teaches you a great deal about how - the depths and variety of human imagination. "

" With all the attention given to the personal computer, it's hard to remember that other companion machine in the room - the printer. "

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" I used to pass by a large computer system with the feeling that it represented the summed-up knowledge of human beings. It reassured me to think of all those programs as a kind of library in which our understanding of the world was recorded in intricate and exquisite detail. "

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