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"After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun."
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"Honestly, I'm more into the computer, the Internet, and checking out scores or the news."

"The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it."

"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."

"But I said wait a minute, I'm going to get a computer, I can do this as well as anybody else. So I did some studying so I knew what kind of boards to get to put a PC together. But there was a guy sitting there with Apple. I said, 'what's that?' and he goes, 'Apple with 128k, it's all built into the box,' and I bought it. That was my first computer."

"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers."
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