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"Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?"
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"And then you start getting into the technical side of it and the aesthetic side and with those areas you can come up with new ways to visualise things, new ways to render and use the computer to make things look different and new and stuff like that."

"Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog."

"We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone."

"To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer."

"China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies."

"On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds."

"The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market."

"Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s."
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"Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom."

"Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months."

"Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world."

"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."

"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."

"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."
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