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"The computer would do anything you programmed it to do."
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"Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software."
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"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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"Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding."
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"After all, just one virus on a computer is one too many."
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"Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living."
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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."
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"I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project."
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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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"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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"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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"We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure."
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"The computer would do anything you programmed it to do."
Computer
"In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology."
Technology
"Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion."
Internet
"In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction."
Direction
"Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them."
Career
"First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense."
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"Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in the need to print film and physically distribute content."
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"There was something amazingly enticing about programming."
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"Yet in all those cases I finally steeled myself to seize the opportunity, and find a way to muddle through and eventually conclude that I had, in fact, chosen the right path, as risky as it seemed at the time."
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