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• If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get…
• A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student…
• People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself…
• Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.
• If you hear an expert talking about the Internet and saying it [does] this, or it will do that, you should treat…
• Technology is everything that doesn’t work yet.
• Last century, when the beams needed replacing, carpenters used oak trees that had been planted in 1386 when the dining hall was…
• I want to build a clock that ticks once a year. The century hand advances once every one hundred years, and the…
• The computers are in control. We just live in their world.
• An attitude of only taking what you need was built into the protocols of the Internet itself.
• What we need is a plan B ... independent of the Internet. [It] doesn't necessarily have to have the performance of the…
• [Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in…

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