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“You go to your TV to turn your brain off. You go to the computer when you want to turn your brain on.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“I rarely saw people sitting at computers producing real code wearing ties.”

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Author:Philippe Kahn

“There is something sexy about a computer nerd.”

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Author:Sandra Bullock

“Children are not being assaulted by images that appear on a computer screen. Any Internet user knows it is quite difficult to stumble across pornography.”

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Author:Russ Feingold

“Fertilizer played a greater role in this case than computers.”

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Author:Mike Godwin

“Taxpayers have spent more than $200 billion in the last decade on computer systems that are antiquated, incompatible, and not doing the job.”

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Author:William Cohen

“Frankly, the people probably most interested in having computer lists on disk are junk mail vendors and solicitors.”

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Author:Karen Hughes

“It seems to me the book has not just aesthetic values - the charming little clothy box of the thing, the smell of the glue, even the print, which has its own beauty. But there's something about the sensation of ink on paper that is in some sense a thing, a phenomenon rather than an epiphenomenon. I can't break the association of electric trash with the computer screen. Words on the screen give the sense of being just another passing electronic wriggle.”

“While we bemoan the decline of literacy, computers discount words in favor of pictures and pictures in favor of video. While we fret about the decreasing cogency of public debate, computers dismiss linear argument and promote fast, shallow romps across the information landscape. While we worry about basic skills, we allow into the classroom software that will do a student's arithmetic or correct his spelling.”

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Author:David Gelernter

“I've been asked to explain why I don't worry much about the topics of privacy threat...One reason is that these scenarios seem to assume that there will be large, monolithic bureaucracies...that are capable of harnessing computers for one-way surveillance of an unsuspecting populace. I've come to feel that computation just doesn't work that way. Being afraid of monolithic organizations especially when they have computers, is like being afraid of really big gorillas especially when they are on fire.”

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

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Book:The Essence of Security: Reflections in Office

Source: The Essence of Security: Reflections in Office

“The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.”

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Author:Frank Zappa

“There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.”