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The most
likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts
agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're
computer professionals. We cause accidents.
-- Nathanie Borenstein
Author
Silicon Valley
is like a person running around in front of a steamroller.
You can outrun the steamroller on any given day. But if you
ever sit down you get squashed.
-- Bob Boschert
There is never
finality in the display terminal's screen, but an
irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and
paragraphs are negated at the touch of a key. The
significance of the past, as expressed in the manuscript by
a deleted word or an inserted correction, is annulled in
idle gusts of electronic massacre.
-- Alexander Cockburn
1941-, Anglo-Irish Journalist
It is hardly
surprising that children should enthusiastically start their
education at an early age with the Absolute Knowledge of
computer science; while they are unable to read, for reading
demands making judgments at every line. Conversation is
almost dead, and soon so too will be those who knew how to
speak.
-- Guy Debord
1931-, French Philosopher
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