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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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"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."
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"The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network."
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"What I try to do is factor in how people use computers, what people's problems are, and how these technologies can get applied to those problems. Then I try to direct the various product groups to act on this information."
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"One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal computers. There weren't that many people to sell to, and it was hard to identify them."
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"One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible."
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"The great growling engine of change - technology."
Change
"You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment."
Intelligence
"Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock."
Change
"Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate."
Technology
"Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it."
Writing
"Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur."
Parenting
"It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution."
Risk
"Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats."
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"The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets."
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"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."
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