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Before we work on artificial intelligence why don't we do something about natural stupidity?
Author: Steve Polyak
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Since the invention of the microprocessor, the cost of moving a byte of information around has fallen on the order of 10-million-fold. Never before in the human history has any product or service gotten 10 million times cheaper-much less in the course of a couple decades. That's as if a 747 plane, once at $150 million a piece, could now be bought for about the price of a large pizza.
Author: Michael Rothschild
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I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.
Author: Bruce Sterling
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Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
Author: Larry Wall
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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. It is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is. . -C.G. Jung.
Author: C.g. Jung
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Science is simply common sense at its best--that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Author: Thomas Huxley
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As nuclear and other technological achievements continue to mount, the normal life span will continue to climb. The hourly productivity of the worker will increase.
Author: Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
Author: Eric Hoffer
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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
Author: Charles Francis Kettering
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The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
Author: Celia Green
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It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.
Author: Penelope Fitzgerald
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As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.
Author: Francis Bacon
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So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.
Author: Russell (wayne) Baker
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If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
Author: Anonymous
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Guide to understanding a net.addict's day: Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet. Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet. Bad day: barely squeezed in three hours of usenet.
Author: Anonymous
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Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.
Author: Anonymous
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The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life. - Inaugural Address.
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.
Author: Henri-frederic
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What we know is not much; what we do not know is immense.
Author: Pierre
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A mask of gold hides all deformities.
Author: Thomas Dekker
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Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
Author: Howard Aiken
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The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.
Author: Milton Avery
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There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than "politicians" think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.
Author: Michel Foucault
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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Author: St. Basil
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Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.
Author: J. G. Ballard
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Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
Author: Andrew Brown
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It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
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When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
Author: Lawrence J. Peter
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Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
Author: Steve Wozniak
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Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
Author: Niels Bohr
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Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Author: Rene Descartes
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We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
Author: Alfred Hitchcock
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Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Author: Pablo Picasso
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Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
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The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.
Author: Dennis Gabor
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The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
Author: William Gibson
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I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
Author: John F. Kennedy
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
Author: E. F. Schumacker
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!), but 'That's funny...' -Isaac Asimov.
Author: Isaac Asimov
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When the lay public rallies round to an idea that is denounced by distinguished by elderly scientists and supports the idea with great fervour and emotion, the distinguished but elderly scientests are then, after all, right. -Isaac Asimov.
Author: Isaac Asimov
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A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history--with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
Author: Mitch Ratliffe
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It is not always possible to know what one has learned, or when the dawning will arrive. You will continue to shift, sift, to shake out and to double back. The synthesis that finally occurs can be in the most unexpected place and the most unexpected time. My charge ... is to be alert to the dawnings.
Author: Virginia B. Smith
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You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.
Author: Ray D. Everson
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Author: Walter Bagehot
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
Author: Guy Almes
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If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
Author: Rory Bremner
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Theory provides the maps that turn an uncoordinated set of experiments or computer simulations into a cumulative exploration.
Author: David Goldberg
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Author: Margaret Mead
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