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“A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable”
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“A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind”
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“Two men were examining the output of the new computer in their department. After an hour or so of analyzing the data, one of them remarked: "Do you realize it would take 400 men at least 250 years to make a mistake this big ?”

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“Computers have enabled people to make more mistakes faster than almost any invention in history, with the possible exception of tequila and hand guns”
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“If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee - that will do them in”

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“What do people mean when they say the computer went down on them?”
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“If automobiles had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside”
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“The most overlooked advantage of owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a bit.”
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“A program is a spell cast over a computer, turning input into error messages”

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“Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.”
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“I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.”
Stephen Hawking quotes (English Physicist, b.1942)
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