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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Men have become the tools of their tools.
Men have become the tools of their tools.
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Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
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So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.
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Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk?
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It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.
It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.
