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"Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'"
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"The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games."
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"Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself."
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Personal Development
"I actually use a computer a lot. I have three computers that I use on a regular basis - one is on my desk top in my Washington office, another is at home, and I have my laptop that I use when I'm travelling."
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"There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers."
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"The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash."
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"I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer."
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"When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment."
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"The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans."
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"Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking."
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"Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them."
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"The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager."
Work
"Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed."
Time
"Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level."
Decision-Making
"Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money."
Money
"So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work."
Work
"Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility."
Power
"Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window."
Nation
"Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans."
Commitment
"Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth."
Wealth
"Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes."
Knowledge
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