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I was standing on the shoulders of other science fiction writers like William Gibson, who had written 'Neuromancer' on a typewriter before home computers even really existed, and Neal Stephenson who wrote 'Snow Crash' in the early '90s and imagined an online virtual world before the birth of the modern Internet.

~Ernest Cline

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Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.

~Erykah Badu

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I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.

~Eugene Jarvis

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Scientists have discovered that, as we age, our brains act like computers with fuller and fuller hard drives. So when we're trying to recall a fact or a word or a name, it takes us longer, because - to put it scientifically - our brains hold a lot of 'stuff.'

~Faith Salie

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The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.

~Fareed Zakaria

Topics: Computers Easier Home Makes Much Our Revolution Technological Work

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Educated women armed with computers have defeated extremists by denying them a monopoly to define cultural identity and interpret religious texts. No extremist can say that women are inferior to men without being made a laughingstock on Al Jazeera. Islam insisted on equality between everyone.

~Fatema Mernissi

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When I was a graduate student in computer science in the early 2000s, computers were barely able to detect sharp edges in photographs, let alone recognize something as loosely defined as a human face.

~Fei-Fei Li

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There are jobs, particularly database-oriented ones, for which computers are necessary, but for everyday office life, I question whether they have brought the productivity that their enormous cost, up to £10,000 per person, demands.

~Felix Dennis

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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.

~Felix Dennis

Topics: Computers Copies Documents Each Emails Endlessly Errors Few Flawless Get Hundreds Make Managers Now Once Paper People Sheet Time Until Wasteful

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I closely follow everything about user interface or human-computer interface: technology that makes computers closer to the way the human being actually functions.

~Francois-Henri Pinault

Topics: About Actually Being Closely Closer Computers Everything Follow Functions Human Human Being Interface Makes Technology User Way

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