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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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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

"Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking."

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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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Norman Ralph Augustine
"Motivation will almost always beat mere talent."

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Norman Ralph Augustine
"By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers."

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Norman Ralph Augustine
"People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again."

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Norman Ralph Augustine
"Hardware works best when it matters the least."

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Norman Ralph Augustine
"Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated."

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Norman Ralph Augustine
"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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Norman Ralph Augustine
"All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'"

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Norman Ralph Augustine
"Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off."

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Norman Ralph Augustine
"Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank."

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Norman Ralph Augustine
"There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two."

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