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"I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge."
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"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."
"I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer."
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"After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun."
"Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!"
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"There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work."
"I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge."
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