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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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"He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men."
Men
"When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself."
Society
"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."
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"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"
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"John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war."
War
"It is not only the living who are killed in war."
War
"To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult."
Nature
"Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world."
Time
"A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value."
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"Imagine that. Terrible, terrible, the way we have all bent to the yoke; the affection we have for the harness about us."
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"I've heard that, but since I'm computer illiterate I don't know how it all works. But since I'm on Prodigy tonight, I'm learning a lot through my typist, Peter."
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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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"While the recent addition of the National Guard providing a support role manning computers and cameras has allowed more Border Patrol agents to work the field, more agents are still needed."
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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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"After all, just one virus on a computer is one too many."
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"I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project."
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"If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available."
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"Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020."
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"Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and looked up specific things about rocketry and so on, really suck."
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"I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette."
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