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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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“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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“A computer makes it possible to do, in half an hour, tasks which were completely unnecessary to do before”

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“The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.”
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“Software is like sex: it's better when it's free.”
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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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“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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“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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“A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.”
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“What do people mean when they say the computer went down on them?”
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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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