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The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them t

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. – Ted Nelson

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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind. – Ted Nelson

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Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything. – Ted Nelson

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The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself. – Howard Aiken

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But they are useless. They can only give you answers. – Pablo Picasso, about computers

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