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“Both instruments are processors of information. Both appeared when nothing quite like them had existed before, and both began to make their effects felt immediately (a situation that isn't invariable with new technology). Both devices were less the result of a single breakthrough than of an evolving set of technologies. Like the computer, the printing press had no one certain inventor; it was a technology whose time had come.”

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Book:The Universal Machine: Confessions of a Technological Optimist

Source: The Universal Machine: Confessions of a Technological Optimist

“It would be just like programmers to shorten 'the year 2000 problem' to 'Y2K'- exactly the kind of thinking that created this situation in the first place.”

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Author:Stephen C. Meyer

“The IT people who have made such an effort to know and understand computer technology. They are frustrated that you cannot use Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in China. They are the first to recognize that the situation is terrible.”

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Author:Ai Weiwei

“It's nice the know the computer understands the situation, but I would like to understand it too.”

Knows Situation Nice Computer

Author:Eugene Wigner

“I've also learned from [Dalai Lama] that we make the world by how we choose to look at it. In any situation you can make it constructive or dismaying, depending on that powerful computer we call the mind.”

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Author:Pico Iyer

“What a woman should know -When to just let him zone out on video games, his computer, or phone. -When to let him control the day or situation. -When to just shut up and kiss him.”

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Author:Jennifer Love Hewitt

“Perhaps the central problem we face in all of computer science is how we are to get to the situation where we build on top of the work of others rather than redoing so much of it in a trivially different way.”

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Author:Richard Hamming