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Thomas Friedman

"Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, down through coastal China, over to Taiwan, and down to Malaysia."

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"Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, down through coastal China, over to Taiwan, and down to Malaysia."

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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

"But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out."

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Donna Grant

"We're having the first computer-generated comic strip in the United States."

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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

"I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it."

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Donna Grant

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

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Thomas Friedman
"Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells."

Behavior

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Thomas Friedman
"The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain."

War

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Thomas Friedman
"Two things are going on at the same time with the flattening of the world: The relentless quest for efficiency is squeezing some of the fat out of life."

Life

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Thomas Friedman
"We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets."

Technology

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Thomas Friedman
"I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat."

World

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Thomas Friedman
"We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that."

Energy

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Thomas Friedman
"There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research."

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Thomas Friedman
"It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world."

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Thomas Friedman
"I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or Google, will explain to their parents running the country just how the world is being flattened."

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Thomas Friedman
"If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you."

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