"Technological innovation has dramatically lowered the cost of……" — James Surowiecki
"Technological innovation has dramatically lowered the cost of computing, making it possible for large numbers of consumers to own powerful new technologies at reasonably low prices."
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150 Quotes by James Surowiecki
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Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But…
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It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the…
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Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or…
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More Computing Quotes
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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
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In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now…
— Douglas Engelbart
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The computing field is always in need of new cliches.
— Alan Perlis
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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
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I would like to emphasize strongly my belief that the era of computing chemists, when hundreds if not thousands of…
— Robert S. Mulliken
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These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice,…
— Samuel Johnson
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Access to supercomputers. The science is well ahead of our ability to implement it. It's quite clear that if we…
— Unknown Author
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The power efficiency of computing has improved by a factor of a billion from the ENIAC computer of the 1950s…
— Unknown Author
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In the 'Disruptive Broadcasting' space, TV on IP networks is now just another application in a broadband world. We have…
— Jeff Pulver
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Cultural perspective on gender diversity in computing,
— Unknown Author
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Only the heart knows the correct answer. Most people think the heart is mushy and sentimental. But it's not. The…
— Deepak Chopra
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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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