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William Gaddis

"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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"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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"The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot."

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"Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy."

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"I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them."

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"This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended."

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"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."

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"Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction."

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"I'm not computer literate. I e-mail. I know how to get on the Web, but I haven't crossed over into the internet world. I'm old-fashioned, I guess."

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"We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this."

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"I'm thinking of going to programming school. Learn how to sit down at any computer and learn to do anything on it. That's all I have left and have interest in."

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"He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work was recovered too, and it is still spoken of, when it is noted, with high regard, though seldom played."
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"We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are."
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"Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power."
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"There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work."
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"Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law."
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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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