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  • Timothy Murphy on computers

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    “While the recent addition of the National Guard providing a support role manning computers and cameras has allowed more Border Patrol agents to work the field, more agents are still needed.” -Timothy Murphy

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  • Harold Ford on computers

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    “I am a huge supporter for cash for caulkers – which allows people to make improvement for energy efficient in their homes. We should do the same for Americans purchasing appliances and computers and for that matter, new air-conditioner and heating units.” -Harold Ford

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  • James Fallows on computers

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    “Over the eons I’ve been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to ‘simplify’ and ‘bring order to’ my life. Very early on this led me to the beautiful-and-doomed Lotus Agenda for my DOS computers, and Actioneer for the early Palm.” -James Fallows

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  • Charles Foster Bass on computers

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    “China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.” -Charles Foster Bass

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  • Jon Postel on computers

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    “One of the things that is not so good is that a decision was made long ago about the size of an IP address – 32 bits. At the time it was a number much larger than anyone could imagine ever having that many computers but it turned out to be to small.” -Jon Postel

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  • Jack Kilby on computers

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    “Well, the big products in electronics in the ’50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.” -Jack Kilby

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  • Nicholas Negroponte on computers

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    “We’ve been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road.” -Nicholas Negroponte

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  • Julia Louis-Dreyfus on computers

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    “Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them.” -Julia Louis-Dreyfus

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  • Kirsty Gallacher on computers

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    “The idea that so many kids eat rubbish and sit on computers all day long appals me and getting them into sport is a major way of getting them off computers and leading healthier lives.” -Kirsty Gallacher

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  • Debbie Harry on computers

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    “But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out.” -Debbie Harry

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  • Hayao Miyazaki on computers

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    “It seems like everything that we see perceived in the brain before we actually use our own eyes, that everything we see is coming through computers or machines and then is being input in our brain cells. So that really worries me.” -Hayao Miyazaki

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  • Cliff Stearns on computers

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    “I continue to meet people who have had their Web pages hijacked, their browsers corrupted, in some cases, their children exposed to inappropriate material from these dangerous programs hidden in their family computers.” -Cliff Stearns

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  • Jack Vance on computers

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    “But I’m so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it’s just so slow, I’m so terribly slow using it.” -Jack Vance

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  • James Iha on computers

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    “Well, we didn’t have our original drummer on our last record. And most of that album was not played as a band in the studio. It was mostly the world of computers and overdubs. There was very few things played live or worked out as a band.” -James Iha

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  • Jon Porter on computers

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    “We have an epidemic of sexual predators following our children, whether it be on the computers, whether it be in our public parks, whether it be in the workplace, or even our schools.” -Jon Porter

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  • Herbert Simon on computers

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    “I don’t care how big and fast computers are, they’re not as big and fast as the world.” -Herbert Simon

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  • Roberta Williams on computers

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    “Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer.” -Roberta Williams

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  • Darrell Issa on computers

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    “Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people’s privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information.” -Darrell Issa

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  • Donald Knuth on computers

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    “People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.” -Donald Knuth

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  • L’Wren Scott on computers

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    “Everyone has this perception that the bloggers, they say horrible things about you and they hide behind their computers where you can’t see them.” -L’Wren Scott

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  • Warwick Davis on computers

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    “It’s interesting to see what people are saying about me. I like keep up with the latest rumors! A while back there was a rumor that I was going to do a film with Demi Moore about the takeover of Commodore computers!” -Warwick Davis

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  • Colin Greenwood on computers

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    “The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything.” -Colin Greenwood

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  • Berkeley Breathed on computers

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    “It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don’t pop into mind when one sees one.” -Berkeley Breathed

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  • Ralph Merkle on computers

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    “Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there.” -Ralph Merkle

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  • Seth Lloyd on computers

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    “What’s happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.” -Seth Lloyd

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