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"He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men."
"When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself."
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"
"John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war."
"To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult."
"A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value."
"Imagine that. Terrible, terrible, the way we have all bent to the yoke; the affection we have for the harness about us."
Exlpore more Computer quotes
"Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?"
"I've heard that, but since I'm computer illiterate I don't know how it all works. But since I'm on Prodigy tonight, I'm learning a lot through my typist, Peter."
"To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge."
"Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s."
"After all, just one virus on a computer is one too many."
"I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project."
"If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available."
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