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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

They’re called sock puppets. We create armies of artificial online personas – user accounts that esp...

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First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with AS...

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How does it feel to be seven thousand years old?""That depends.""On what?""On how I want to feel.

In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smooth...

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The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.

Something like missionary reductionism has happened to the internet with the rise of web 2.0. The st...

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Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.We must be willing to get rid of the life we plann...

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The computer may be incompetent in itself--that is, unable to do the work for which it was designed....

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At the beginning of that interval a type-machine was a curiosity. The person who owned one was a cur...

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Mark TwainThe $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories

It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it...

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Mark TwainThe $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.

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

I had been hobbled, perhaps even crippled by a pervasive internet society I had come to depend on an...

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What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equiva...

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Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window