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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - July 20, 2026
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.
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unknown, Popular Mechanics, March 1949  
I shot an arrow into the air, and it stuck.
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Graffito, in Los Angeles  
Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.
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Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)  
[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
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Al Capp (1909 - 1979)  
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