"Men are noisy, narrow-band devices, but their nervous systems have very many parallel and simultaneously active channels. Relative to men, computing machines are very fast and very accurate, but they are constrained to perform only one or a few elementary operations at a time. Men are flexible, capable of "programming themselves contingently" on the basis of newly received information. Computing machines are single-minded, constrained by their "pre-programming.""

Source : J. C. R. Licklider, Robert W. Taylor (1990). “In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990”

J. C. R. Licklider

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“As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking on the moon and Jupiter... Given ships or sails adapted to the breezes of heaven, there will be those who will not shrink from even that vast expanse.”
“Smoking is a dying habit.”
“The first tenet is that you should report corruption regardless of loyalty to incumbent or party.”

Source : "Linda Tripp on 'Larry King Live'". www.cnn.com. February 9, 2001.
“We are not powerless. We have tremendous potential for good or ill. How we choose to use that power is up to us; but first we must choose to use it. We're told every day, You can't change the world. But the world is changing every day. Only question is who's doing it? You or somebody else?”
“Well, it looks as if the top part fell on the bottom part.”
“The advent of truth, like the dawn of day, agitates the elements, while it disperses the gloom.”

Source : Elias Lyman Magoon (1849). “Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom”, p.219
“We come from fallible parents who were kids once, who decided to have kids and who had to learn how to be parents. Faults are made and damage is done, whether it's conscious or not. Everyone's got their own 'stuff,' their own issues, and their own anger at Mom and Dad. That is what family is. Family is almost naturally dysfunctional.”
“All problems in computer graphics can be solved with a matrix inversion.”

Source : Jim Blinn (1998). “Jim Blinn's Corner: Dirty Pixels”, p.250, Morgan Kaufmann

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