Quote by Kevin Kelly
The great advance of personal computers was not the computing powe

The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it. – Kevin Kelly

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One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time. – Kevin Kelly

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Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design. – Kevin Kelly

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I continue to meet people who have had their Web pages hijacked, their browsers corrupted, in some cases, their children exposed to inappropriate material from these dangerous programs hidden in their family computers. – Cliff Stearns

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Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft… and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. – Werner von Braun

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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. Im talking about an organic computer – about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor. – Alvin Toffler

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Silicon Valley is like a person running around in front of a steamroller. You can outrun the steamroller on any given day. But if you ever sit down you get squashed. – Bob Boschert

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In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter. – Benjamin Carson

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