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- Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.
- G. Hopper
- If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in.
- Bradley's Bromide
- I have a cat named Trash. In the current political climate it would seem that if I were trying to sell him (at least to a Computer Scientist), I would not stress that he is gentle to humans and is self-sufficient, living mostly on field mice. Rather, I would argue that he is object-oriented.
- Roger King
- Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up.
- James Magary
- Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
- Jeff Raskin, interviewed in Doctor Dobb's Journal
- The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little.
- Porterfield
- pixel, n.: A mischievous, magical spirit associated with screen displays. The computer industry has frequently borrowed from mythology: Witness the sprites in computer graphics, the demons in artificial intelligence, and the trolls in the marketing department.
- Jeff Meyer
- If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.
- Dwight David Eisenhower, address at Guildhall, London, 7/12/45
- Setting loose on the battlefield weapons that are able to learn may be one of the biggest mistakes mankind has ever made. It could also be one of the last.
- Richard Forsyth - Machine Learning for Expert Systems
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