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"In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking."
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"The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot."
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"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."
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"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."
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"Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?"
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"But I said wait a minute, I'm going to get a computer, I can do this as well as anybody else. So I did some studying so I knew what kind of boards to get to put a PC together. But there was a guy sitting there with Apple. I said, 'what's that?' and he goes, 'Apple with 128k, it's all built into the box,' and I bought it. That was my first computer."
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"Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding."
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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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"When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment."
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"Guess what - I am one of the ONLY senators in the whole United States Senate that is computer literate!"
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"That was clearly surprising, interesting - a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article about some sort of computer related thing and they mention the word internet without explaining it."
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"They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind."
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"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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"So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go."
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"In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking."
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"What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes."
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"So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened."
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"Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything."
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"So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms."
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"But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted in - make the ones that are less relevant to your central topic, further away or allow the central topic to move as the reader proceeded."
Computer
"So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided."
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