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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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A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history – with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. – Mitch Ratcliffe

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Im not afraid of computers taking over the world. – Thom Yorke

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They went back there, looked at all the computers, asked me to come in and tell them what all the computers were for specifically so they knew how to dismantle the network I had been running. – Sherman Austin

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