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"I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented."
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"They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind."
"Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that."
"The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do."
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