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• The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great… — Benjamin Peirce
• In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now… — Douglas Engelbart
• The computing field is always in need of new cliches. — Alan Perlis
• Men are noisy, narrow-band devices, but their nervous systems have very many parallel and simultaneously active channels. Relative to men,… — J. C. R. Licklider
• I would like to emphasize strongly my belief that the era of computing chemists, when hundreds if not thousands of… — Robert S. Mulliken
• These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice,… — Samuel Johnson
• Access to supercomputers. The science is well ahead of our ability to implement it. It's quite clear that if we… — Unknown Author
• The power efficiency of computing has improved by a factor of a billion from the ENIAC computer of the 1950s… — Unknown Author
• In the 'Disruptive Broadcasting' space, TV on IP networks is now just another application in a broadband world. We have… — Jeff Pulver
• Cultural perspective on gender diversity in computing, — Unknown Author
• Only the heart knows the correct answer. Most people think the heart is mushy and sentimental. But it's not. The… — Deepak Chopra
• Right up till the 1980s, SF envisioned giant mainframe computers that ran everything remotely, that ingested huge amounts of information… — Walter Jon Williams

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