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Frank Press

"When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment."

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Donna Grant

"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."

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Donna Grant

"The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot."

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Donna Grant

"I just recently did a film with Disney, and they put the drawings straight on the computer. And it's all painted on the computer now and not by hand anymore."

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Donna Grant

"I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time."

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Donna Grant

"I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now."

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Donna Grant

"So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature."

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Donna Grant

"The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network."

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Donna Grant

"What I try to do is factor in how people use computers, what people's problems are, and how these technologies can get applied to those problems. Then I try to direct the various product groups to act on this information."

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Donna Grant

"One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible."

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Donna Grant

"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."

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Frank Press
"You travel across the country, you visit departments, you give talks, you talk about the work at your laboratory - what's going on, what the opportunities are there - you talk about your own research."

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Frank Press
"My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them."

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Frank Press
"For my own personal growth I had to set out on my own."

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Frank Press
"Gutenberg and Richter were very great men."

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Frank Press
"It's a difficult question of relations between people."

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"When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment."

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