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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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"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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"Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software."
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"Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living."
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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."
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"Clearly, if we'd had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color."
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"Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself."
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"You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing."
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"I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette."
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"There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers."
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"China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies."
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"Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things."
Management
"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
"We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information."
Certainty
"The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager."
Work
"Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't."
Time
"Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action."
Action
"The computer is a moron."
Computer
"People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year."
People
"Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs."
Employment
"The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity."
Change
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