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Major Owens

"The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired."

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"The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out."

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Donna Grant

"Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking."

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Donna Grant

"We're having the first computer-generated comic strip in the United States."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Major Owens
"Therefore, you are not training young people for the world of today and the world of tomorrow unless you are doing proven technology training. That is one of the reasons I'm so concerned."

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Major Owens
"You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power."

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Major Owens
"Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included."

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Major Owens
"We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom."

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Major Owens
"Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored."

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Major Owens
"People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation."

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Major Owens
"We can do it better, more consistently, and in the end, it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience."

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Major Owens
"There's a whole set of values, spawned by the vocal and highly visible Republicans, that appeal to the worst in people. Our society is moving in that direction."

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Major Owens
"It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two."

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Major Owens
"The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to go more and more into self-interest. Even to see other folks as competition."

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