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" There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers. "
Steven Levy
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" Computers are the most powerful tools that humanity has ever created. Yet, we treat them largely as a black box; as if it were an alien artifact that magically appeared on desks, in homes, and in our pockets. "
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" Facebook has never been shy about its ambitions. "
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" We resemble computers intellectually and animals emotionally. "
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" By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people. "
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" The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers. "
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" Computers make me totally blank out. "
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" So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature. "
Stephen Wolfram
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" I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses the distributed power of the Internet as its engine. "
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" One of the things that is not so good is that a decision was made long ago about the size of an IP address - 32 bits. At the time it was a number much larger than anyone could imagine ever having that many computers but it turned out to be to small. "
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" I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface. "
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" It's almost impossible to totally eliminate terrible content in a huge open network. "
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Terrible
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" I can write anywhere. But I don't use a computer, and I could never write on a laptop. I hate the sound of computers; it's too dull, like it's not doing anything for you. "
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" I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong. "
Carla Bruni
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" Steve Ballmer never used to be someone who let facts speak for themselves. In the 1990s, he was the hyper-energetic Microsoft exec yelling 'Developers! Developers! Developers!' at an all-hands meeting in Safeco field. "
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Never
Someone
" I'm trying to get through life without really knowing about computers, but I don't know if I am going to make it. "
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" When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it's a success. It's not popularity for our code but it's success for our goal. "
Richard Stallman
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" How do you show off the most anticipated product in years? That was my dilemma with the iPhone X. Since my unit was one of the first few released into the wild, it naturally drew a lot of curiosity when I pulled it out of my pocket and gave it a dewy-eyed glance to wake it from slumber. "
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" In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever. "
Niklaus Wirth
Uncommon
World
Forever
" Computers intimidate me. "
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" Starting early and getting girls on computers, tinkering and playing with technology, games and new tools, is extremely important for bridging the gender divide that exists now in computer science and in technology. "
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" I don't like computers. I still like to do my drawings by hand. "
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" My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers. "
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" If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan. "
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" I took computers in high school. I would do all my own programming, but I didn't see the future of computers for anything other than data processing. Who was going to use a computer for communications? "
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" Amazon is definitely serious about delivering its goods by an autonomous air force. "
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Air
" Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek? "
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" The early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelancers, and then transact directly with peers over networks. Digital technology would create tremendous slack, allow us to apply its asynchronous, decentralized qualities to our own work and lives. "
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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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" We're leading a fundamental shift from centralized energy to distributed energy. Energy will go in that direction, just like mainframe computers went to client servers, then to the Internet. I believe in solar, and the macro trends are just too undeniable. "
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