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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan. -

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan. – Alan Perlis

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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical. – Alan Perlis

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Education
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word frustration. – Alan Perlis

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Computers
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People are on their computers more than watching TV, because you can only watch voyeur TV, which is basically what reality shows are, for so long. – Stephen Root

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My whole life had been designing computers I could never build. – Steve Wozniak

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With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense. – Niklas Zennstrom

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There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers. – Steven Levy

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