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I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, 'There was AC/DC, and here's Journey,' because computers can do that.

~Eddie Trunk

Topics: Because Believe Bring Computers Content Here Journey More Radio Saying Survive Table Than To Survive Truly You

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Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

~Edsger Dijkstra

Topics: About Astronomy Computer Computer Science Computers More Science Than

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Charlestoning is hard. People were fit in the '20s to be able to do that. I guess they didn't sit in front of their computers all day.

~Elizabeth Debicki

Topics: Able All Day Computers Day Fit Front Guess Hard People Sit Were

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For about half an hour in mid-1992, I knew as much as any layperson about the pleasures of remote access of other people's computers.

~Elizabeth Mccracken

Topics: About Access Any Computers Half Hour Knew Much Other People Pleasures Remote

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For short term relaxation, I take a hot tub. It's my best way to unblock writers' block, too. For a bit longer relaxation, I enjoy camping. Just being in the wilderness, with no phones or computers or anything I have to do really refreshes my spirit.

~Ellen Hopkins

Topics: Anything Being Best Best Way Bit Block Camping Computers Enjoy Hot Just Longer Phones Really Relaxation Short Short Term Spirit Take Term Too Tub Way Wilderness Writers

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People talk about computer programmers as if computers are our whole lives. That's simply not true.

~Ellen Ullman

Topics: About Computer Computers Lives Our People Programmers Simply Talk True Whole

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Closed environments dominated the computing world of the 1970s and early '80s. An operating system written for a Hewlett-Packard computer ran only on H.P. computers; I.B.M. controlled its software from chips up to the user interfaces.

~Ellen Ullman

Topics: Chips Closed Computer Computers Computing Controlled Dominated Early Environments Only Operating Operating System Ran Software System Up User World Written 1970S

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Introduced in the 1960s, multitasking is an engineering strategy for making computers more efficient. Human beings are the slowest elements in a system.

~Ellen Ullman

Topics: Beings Computers Efficient Elements Engineering Human Human Beings Introduced Making More Strategy System 1960S

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I don't know where anyone ever got the idea that technology, in and of itself, was a savior. Like all human-created 'progress,' computers are problematic, giving and taking away.

~Ellen Ullman

Topics: Anyone Away Computers Ever Giving Got Idea Itself Know Like Problematic Progress Savior Taking Technology Where

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A computer is a general-purpose machine with which we engage to do some of our deepest thinking and analyzing. This tool brings with it assumptions about structuredness, about defined interfaces being better. Computers abhor error.

~Ellen Ullman

Topics: Abhor About Analyzing Assumptions Being Better Brings Computer Computers Deepest Defined Engage Error Machine Our Some Thinking Tool Which

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