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A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen,

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you. – Daniel J. Boorstin

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After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun. – Eric Allin Cornell

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Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene – but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers. – William Shatner

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Man-made computers are limited in their performance by finite processing speed and memory. So, too, the cosmic computer is limited in power by its age and the finite speed of light. – Paul Davies

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