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  • Milton Glaser on computers

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    “Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.” -Milton Glaser

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  • Steven Levy on computers

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    “There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.” -Steven Levy

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  • Frank Press on computers

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    “When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment.” -Frank Press

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  • Dave Winer on computers

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    “There were no PCs when I started programming on computers.” -Dave Winer

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  • Stephen Wolfram on computers

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    “So the thing I realized rather gradually – I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things – there’s a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature.” -Stephen Wolfram

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  • Mitch Kapor on computers

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    “Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school – this was in the 1960s.” -Mitch

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  • Wolfgang Petersen on computers

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    “Theaters are always going to be around, and doing fine. With computers and technology, we’re becoming more and more secluded from each other. And the movie theater is one of the last places where we can still gather and experience something together. I don’t think the desire for that magic will ever go away.” -Wolfgang

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  • Richard Dooling on computers

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    “Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, ‘toxic’ financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them.” -Richard Dooling

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  • George Nethercutt on computers

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    “From computers to information technology to airplanes, it has been America’s unique blend of republican government and free-market capitalism that has allowed us to surpass all other nations in history.” -George Nethercutt

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  • Jo Ann Davis on computers

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    “Equipped with cell phones, beepers, and handheld computers, the ‘conspicuously industrious’ blur the line between home and office by working anytime, anywhere.” -Jo Ann Davis

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  • Eric Avery on computers

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    “I started getting into Internet technologies and computers. I wasn’t especially interested in being a musician, but I wound up finding my way back to being interested in music through computers.” -Eric Avery

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  • Clint Black on computers

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    “I use computers for email, staying current with my own website as well as finding important information through other websites. I also use it for creating MP3 files of new music I’m working on.” -Clint Black

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  • Ben Fountain on computers

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    “I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time – the American South in the 1960s and ’70s – when the machine hadn’t completely taken over life. The natural world was still the world, and machines – TV, telephone, cars – were still more or less ancillary, and computers were

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  • Perry Farrell on computers

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    “I’m looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration, with technical savvy, using cell phones and computers.” -Perry Farrell

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  • Lennart Nilsson on computers

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    “That’s the new way – with computers, computers, computers. That’s the way we can have the cell survive and get some new information in high resolution. We started about five years ago and, today, I think we have reached the target.” -Lennart Nilsson

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  • Bill Laswell on computers

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    “Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It’s exactly the same.” -Bill Laswell

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  • Dixie Carter on computers

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    “Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think.” -Dixie Carter

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  • William Landay on computers

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    “I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.” -William Landay

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  • Sherman Austin on computers

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    “When they were done downloading all the information off each hard drive, they took all the computers, all the literature, and loaded everything into a big white truck and left.” -Sherman Austin

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  • Sam Wyly on computers

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    “Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we’re marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn’t have to drive to the computer center. We didn’t have $1,000 computers.” -Sam Wyly

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  • Charles Keating on computers

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    “Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me.” -Charles Keating

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  • Charles C. Mann on computers

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    “A smartphone links patients’ bodies and doctors’ computers, which in turn are connected to the Internet, which in turn is connected to any smartphone anywhere. The new devices could put the management of an individual’s internal organs in the hands of every hacker, online scammer, and digital vandal on Earth.” -Charles C. Mann

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  • Soulja Boy on computers

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    “When I was in Japan on tour in 2010, I felt like I was 30 years into the future. I love technology and they are so advanced with their phones, computers, everything. I think they had the iPhone way before we did in the U.S. I love gadgets, games, social media and I try to

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  • Claude Vorilhon on computers

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    “Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don’t have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison.” -Claude Vorilhon

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  • Greg Egan on computers

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    “Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.” -Greg Egan

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