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

“Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.”

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Author:Russell Baker

“The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.”

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Book:Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts'

Source: Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts'

“To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.”

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Author:Robert Orben

“Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.”

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Author:Andy Rooney

“The computer is down. I hope it's something serious.”

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Author:Stanton Delaplane

“You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.”

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Author:Wim Crouwel

“A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.”

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Author:Joseph Weizenbaum

“The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating systems.”

“The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers.”

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Author:Jamais Cascio

“We can either passively continue on the road to utter domestication and destruction or turn in the direction of joyful upheaval, passionate and feral embrace of wildness and life that aims at dancing on the ruins of clocks, computers and that failure of imagination and will called work. Can we justify our lives by anything less than such a politics of rage and dreams?”

Source: Future Primitive Revisited