Since the invention of the microprocessor, the cost of moving a byte of information around has fallen on the order of 10-million-fold. Never before in the human history has any product or service gotten 10 million times cheaper-much less in the course of a couple decades. That's as if a 747 plane, once at $150 million a piece, could now be bought for about the price of a large pizza.
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Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. It is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is. . -C.G. Jung.
An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.
An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.
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If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get one million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
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When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research.
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
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Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. -Max Frisch.
Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. -Max Frisch.
Ideas are fatal to caste.
Ideas are fatal to caste.
