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"To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge."

Adlai E. Stevenson, American Politician

Computer, Computers, Fact, Man

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

Dave Barry, American Journalist

Computer, Word

"I just recently did a film with Disney, and they put the drawings straight on the computer. And it's all painted on the computer now and not by hand anymore."

Gerald Scarfe, British Artist

Computer, Disney, Film, Now

"I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time."

Vinton Cerf, American Inventor

Computer, Computers, Time, December, End

"But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out."

Debbie Harry, American Musician

Computer, Computers, Will, World

"Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking."

Milton Glaser, American Designer

Computer, Computers, Design, Cooking

"We're having the first computer-generated comic strip in the United States."

Majel Barrett, American Actress

Computer, First, states, United

"I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now."

Jhumpa Lahiri, American Author

Computer, Computers, Life, People, Internet

"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, English Scientist

Computer, Computers, Nature, Possibility, Now

"I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it."

Josh Holloway, American Actor

Computer, Computers, Mother, Brothers

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"Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom."

Wisdom, Knowledge, Information, Understanding

"Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community."

Friendship, Time, Family, Life, People

"The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity."

Internet,

"Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s."

Computer, Computers

"Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months."

Security, Months

"Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?"

Computer,

"While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a different language."

People, Feeling, Language, World

"Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world."

Power, World

"If you don't have an E-mail address, you're in the Netherworld. If you don't have your own World Wide Web page, you're a nobody."

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