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"If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it."
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"Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself."
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"I actually use a computer a lot. I have three computers that I use on a regular basis - one is on my desk top in my Washington office, another is at home, and I have my laptop that I use when I'm travelling."
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"There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers."
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"The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash."
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"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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"When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment."
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"The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans."
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"Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking."
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"Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them."
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"I don't have a computer - I don't like to get into it that much 'cause it can screw with your head a little."
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"British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target."
Politics
"If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it."
Computer
"It is a weird thing, because most people tend to get more conservative as they get older, but I find myself going the opposite way. I am sure that by the end I will be selling Marxist pamphlets on the Holloway Road."
People
"I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It's a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage."
Home
"Or the Department of Education and another ministry were worried about duplication of effort, so what did they do? They set up two committees to look into duplication and neither knew what the other was up to. It really is a world beyond parody."
Education
"We are rather in the position that used to exist at the BBC, where you feel that you can pick up the phone to people who are experts in their field and they will be very favourably disposed to you and share their knowledge."
People
"People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift."
People
"Politics now is rather like going into Starbucks for a coffee."
Politics
"But let's be clear. We're talking about a country where there's no opposition. As leader he can ignore Parliament and - sorry that's Tony Blair isn't it? Um, so he doesn't even have to ask the country before he goes to war - sorry that's still Tony Blair."
War
"Now I'm instantly nervous about the demands of doing a weekly column."
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