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Erma Bombeck

"Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it."

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"Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it."

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"Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself."

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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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"I don't have a computer - I don't like to get into it that much 'cause it can screw with your head a little."

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"In the course of my stay there, I also showed how one could analyse the experimental kinetic curves for the reaction of haemoglobin with carbon dioxide or oxygen by simulations in the computer, and so fit the rate constants."

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"We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable."

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"There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants."

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Amber Hurdle

"Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction."

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"I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems."

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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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"I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago."

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