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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.
When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research.
To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out read more
It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.
An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.
An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.
We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.
We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.
For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If read more
For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork. - When Things Start to Think, 1999.
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.
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come read more
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten read more
I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.
