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Norman Ralph Augustine

"One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'"

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"Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in."

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"The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market."

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"Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead."

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"Honestly, I'm more into the computer, the Internet, and checking out scores or the news."

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"The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it."

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

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

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"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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"Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?"

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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."

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"The optimum committee has no members."
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"Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank."
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"A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist."
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"The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity."
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"Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases."
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"If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance."
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"The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money."
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"If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice."
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"Motivation will almost always beat mere talent."
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