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"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."

Isaac Asimov, American Scientist

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"You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize."

Gary Coleman, American Actor

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"The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games."

Eugene Jarvis, American Scientist

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"Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something."

Mark Rylance, English Actor

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"Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions."

Philip Emeagwali, Nigerian Scientist

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"Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them."

Julia Louis Dreyfus, American Actress

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"A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage."

Robert McNamara, American Public Servant

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"I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project."

Mitch Kapor, American Businessman

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"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."

Mitch Kapor, American Businessman

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"Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself."

Alain Robert, French Athlete

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"The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product."

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"Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'"

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"Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement."

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"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."

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