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    Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.

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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

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Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. read more

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or read more

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

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Form follows function. - "Lippincott's Magazine", March, 1896.

Form follows function. - "Lippincott's Magazine", March, 1896.

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When the lay public rallies round to an idea that is denounced by distinguished by elderly scientists and supports the read more

When the lay public rallies round to an idea that is denounced by distinguished by elderly scientists and supports the idea with great fervour and emotion, the distinguished but elderly scientests are then, after all, right. -Isaac Asimov.

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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. - The Quest for Certainty.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. - The Quest for Certainty.

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As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.

As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.

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Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

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The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think read more

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

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