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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
Computer

"Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't get from many other things."

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Seth Lloyd Computer Scientist
Computer

"The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer."

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Douglas Adams Writer, Humorist
Computer

"I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand."

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
Computer

"I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time."

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Steve Jobs Entrepreneur
Computer

"The biggest effect of the personal computer revolution has been to allow millions and millions of people to experience computers themselves decades before they ever would have in the old paradigm."

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Steve Jobs Entrepreneur
Computer

"The Macintosh was supposed to be the computer for people that just wanted to use a computer without having to learn how to use one."

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Seth Lloyd Computer Scientist
Computer

"What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process."

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