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"Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them."
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"Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog."
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Personal Development
"I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill."
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Personal Development
"The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot."
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Personal Development
"Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software."
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Personal Development
"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted."
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Personal Development
"Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions."
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Personal Development
"Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer."
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Personal Development
"That was clearly surprising, interesting - a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article about some sort of computer related thing and they mention the word internet without explaining it."
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"Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them."
Computer
"And it was back in the mid-1980s, and as I point out in a piece, that was when we are spending about eight percent of our gross domestic product on health care. And even then, we had the impression that so much of the excessive, aggressive medical treatment that took place at the end of life was not only unnecessary but it was cruel."
Health
"At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss."
Technology
"Let's take care of mothers and infants first, and then let's see what's left over for everybody over 50. I'm over 50. If I get sick, I would rather have money spent on children before it's spent on me."
Money
"Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us."
Technology
"Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use them not only to outsmart ourselves but to bring us right up to the doorstep of Doom."
Time
"Under Medicare right now, I get paid to put a pacemaker in you, but I don't get paid to counsel you about end-of-life care."
Care
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