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• One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  A Thousand and One Epigrams (1911)

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• First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.

  Douglas Adams

  Technology, Typewriters, Discovery

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• In theory, there is nothing the computer can do that the human mind can not do. The computer merely takes a finite amount of data and performs a finite number of operations upon them. The human mind can duplicate the process

  Isaac Asimov

  Finite Number, Data, Numbers

  Isaac Asimov (1990). “The Complete Stories”, Broadway Books

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• In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

  Yogi Berra

  Leadership, Funny Inspirational, Reality

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Why is it that drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?

  Clifford Stoll

  Addiction, Drug, Users

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• The computer saves man a lot of guesswork, but so does the bikini.

  Evan Esar

  Men, Doe, Bikinis

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• No one will need more than 637Kb of memory for a personal computer

  Bill Gates

  Funny, Memories, Dumb

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• Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.

  Larry Wall

  Language, Easy, Computer Language

  Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall, Jon Orwant (2012). “Programming Perl: Unmatched Power for Text Processing and Scripting”, p.23, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.

  Dave Barry

  Literature, Internet, Transforming Yourself

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry in Cyberspace”, p.8, Ballantine Books

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• Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment.

  Kent Beck

  Technology, Optimism, Hazards

  Kent Beck (2000). “Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change”, p.31, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.

  Robert McNamara

  Inspiring, Writing, Computer Literacy

  Robert S. McNamara (1968). “The Essence of Security: Reflections in Office”, New York : Harper & Row

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• For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.

  Bill Bryson

  Stupid, Smart, Technology

  "Notes from a Big Country" / "I'm a Stranger Here Myself", Book by Bill Bryson, 1998.

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• In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program.

  Jon Postel

  Writing, Jigsaw Puzzles, Class

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• If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and no-one dares criticize it.

  Pierre Marie Gallois

  Funny, Humor, Machines

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• Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.

  Kristen Wilson

  Funny, Running, Humor

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• On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Doe, Machines, Steps

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• Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!

  Rory Bremner

  Reading, Radio, Multimedia

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• Men, forever tempted to lift the veil of the future-with the aid of computers or horoscopes or the intestines of sacrificial animals-have a worse record to show in these sciences than in almost any scientific endeavor.

  Hannah Arendt

  Animal, Men, Astrology

  Hannah Arendt (1978). “Willing”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• I love black dresses. I think everyone should own a lot, but black dresses don't sell online because on the computer they don't read like anything.

  Tom Ford

  Thinking, Black, Dresses

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• I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in my office and torture the keys. My one saving grace as a writer is that, if I'm having trouble with the novel I'm writing, I write something else, a poem or a short story. I try to avoid writer's block by always writing something.

  Jess Walter

  Block, Coffee, Writing

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• We're having the first computer-generated comic strip in the United States.

  Majel Barrett

  America, United States, Firsts

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• Long ago, when Harry had been left alone while the Dursley's went out to enjoy themselves, the hours of solitude had been a rare treat: Pausing only to sneak something tasty from the fridge, he had rushed upstairs to play on Dudley's computer, or put on the television and flicked through the channels to his heart's content. It gave him an odd empty feeling to remember those times; it was like remembering a younger brother whom he had lost.

  J. K. Rowling

  Brother, Life Lesson, Heart

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• If you can afford...a computer, you can afford to pay $16 for my...CD.

  Eminem

  Cds, Pay, Internet

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• With my wife Camille's help, I took to social networking. I'm working with the computers.

  Bill Cosby

  Wife, Networking, Helping

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• I am aware that a computer can’t create a poem, but neither can a typewriter.

  Charles Bukowski

  Typewriters

  Charles Bukowski (2002). “Il grande”, p.144, Feltrinelli Editore

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