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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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"The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot."
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"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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"Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers."
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"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."
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"The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash."
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"No computer, no gadget, no trickery. I am an animal, it is a plant. I will beat the weed!"
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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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"To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer."
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"I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world."
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"95% on content and the computer language remains the same."
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"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."
Computer
"In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself."
Environment
"Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment."
Change
"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."
Computer
"And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs."
Decision-Making
"The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system."
Nature
"It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially."
Change
"This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here."
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"Managing bottom-up change is its own art."
Art
"An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment."
Change
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