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"Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?"
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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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"But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out."
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"Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking."
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"We're having the first computer-generated comic strip in the United States."
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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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"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."
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"Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom."
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"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."
World
"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
"The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity."
Internet
"Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s."
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"Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?"
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"Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world."
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"Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months."
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"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."
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