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"If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan."
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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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"You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing."
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