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It's a well known fact that computing devices such as the abacus were invented thousands of years ago. But it's not well known that the first use of a common computer protocol occured in the Old Testament. This, of course, was when Moses aborted the Egyptians' process with a control-sea...": Tom Galloway
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.: Andy Rooney (1919 - )
If the automobile had followed the same development cyclee as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.": Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld
Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies: Bill Bulko
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.: Unknown
An apprentice carpenter may want only a hammer and saw, but a master craftsman employs many precision tools. Computer programming likewise requires sophisticated tools to cope with the complexity of real applications, and only practice with these tools will build skill in their use.: Robert L. Kruse, Data Structures and Program Design
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing viability of Fortran.: Alan Perlis
It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self-critical?: Alan Perlis
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18,000 vaccuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 1 2 tons.: Popular Mechanics, March 1949
In pioneer days they used oxen for heavy pulling, and when one ox couldn't budge a log, they didn't try to grow a larger ox. We shouldn't be trying for bigger computers, but for more systems of computers.: G. Hopper

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