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"The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor."
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"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."

"If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object."
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"The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn."

"Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time."

"One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition."

"Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock."

"Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate."

"You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction."

"You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment."
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