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- All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- I bet the human brain is a kludge.
- Marvin Minsky
- I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
- Robert Orben
- Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
- Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
- The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
- Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980), In Simon Rose, Classic Film Guide (1995)
- Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
- R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
- To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.
- Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)
- The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
- Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
- People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), "Of Human Bondage", 1915
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