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First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to

First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we’ve realized it’s a brochure. – Douglas Adams

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He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher… or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. – Douglas Adams

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A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the Universe and move bits of it about. – Douglas Adams

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I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: “Macintosh – We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end.” – Douglas Adams

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I have… had a disturbing dream in which I break through a cave wall near Nag Hammadi and discover urns full of ancient Coptic scrolls. As I unfurl the first scroll, a subscription card to some Gnostic exercise magazine flutters out. – Colin McEnroe

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Advertising is the principal reason why the business person has come to inherit the earth. – James R. Adams

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Don’t tell my mother I work in an advertising agency — she thinks I play piano in a whorehouse. – Jacques Seguela

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Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn’t have to advertise it. – Will Rogers

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