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![“I tried to look at where did the kind of learning we do in schools, where did it come from? . . . It came from . . . the last and the biggest of the empires on this planet, [the British Empire]. What they did was amazing. They created a global computer made up of people. It’s still with us today…” quote by Erik Brynjolfsson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/747/erik-brynjolfsson-9007_british-empire_i-tried-to-look-at-where-did-the-kind-of_2038347.jpg)
![“Database Management System [Origin: Data + Latin basus "low, mean, vile, menial, degrading, ounterfeit."] A complex set of interrelational data structures allowing data to be lost in many convenient sequences while retaining a complete record of the logical relations between the missing items…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae6/stan-kelly-bootle-2-182441_computer_database-management-system-origin-data-l_248843.jpg)
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