"The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do."
"I have long been alarmed by people's sheeplike acceptance of the term 'computer technology' - it sounds so objective and inexorable - when most computer technology is really a bunch of ideas turned into conventions and packages."
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Source: In Venting, a Computer Visionary Educates by John Markoff, www.nytimes.com. January 10, 2009.
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