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Douglas Adams Writer, Humorist
Computer

"There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(...); the other was the fact that the century would end."

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Douglas Adams Writer, Humorist
Computer

"I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course--the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end."

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Douglas Adams Writer, Humorist
Computer

"Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a human being and saying "Blood...blood...blood...blood..."

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Douglas Adams Writer, Humorist
Computer

"The big corporations are suddenly taking notice of the web, and their reactions have been slow. Even the computer industry failed to see the importance of the Internet, but that's not saying much. Let's face it, the computer industry failed to see that the century would end."

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Douglas Adams Writer, Humorist
Computer

"We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books."

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Douglas Adams Writer, Humorist
Computer

"You turn the computer into the storyteller and the player into the audience, like in the old days when the storyteller would actually respond to the audience, rather than just having the audience respond to the storyteller. I had an enormous amount of fun, actually, working on that."

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Clive Thompson Journalist
Computer

"More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work."

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Bram Cohen Software Developer
Computer

"Arimaa's a better game than I thought. It follows a fairly sound approach to making the game difficult for computers."

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