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"Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software."
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Personal Development
"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."
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Personal Development
"There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them."
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Personal Development
"Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy."
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Personal Development
"Loads of computer graphics equals a terrible video in my book."
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Personal Development
"After all, just one virus on a computer is one too many."
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Personal Development
"The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot."
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Personal Development
"Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me."
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Personal Development
"The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans."
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Personal Development
"Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society."
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"I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world."
Computer
"One finds limits by pushing them."
Limit
"The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function."
Goal
"The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it."
Nothing
"There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes."
Technology
"The proper study of mankind is the science of design."
Design
"One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it."
Science
"Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves."
Time
"Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature."
Nature
"What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it."
Wealth
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