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"The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer 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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"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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"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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"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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"Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software."
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"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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"We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work."
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"Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment."
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"When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at."
Environment
"The organization and the environment are in concert."
Environment
"An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time."
Time
"Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other."
Work
"But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths."
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"Managing bottom-up change is its own art."
Art
"In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself."
Environment
"A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness."
Society
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