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    The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Provide you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking. The speed with which printing presses and their operators fanned out across Europe is extraordinary. From the single Mainz press of 1457, it took only twenty-three years to establish presses in 110 towns: 50 in Ita!0 in Germany, 9 in France, 8 in Spain, 8 in Holland, 4 in England, and so on.

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The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

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A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. read more

A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The next day he sent me a huge package of lobsters on ice. How low can you stoop?

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Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.

Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.

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Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back read more

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

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Since the invention of the microprocessor, the cost of moving a byte of information around has fallen on the order read more

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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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.

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Everything that can be invented, has been invented. - 1899.

Everything that can be invented, has been invented. - 1899.

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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. -Carl Sagan.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. -Carl Sagan.

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