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    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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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. - Essays, 1625.

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It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

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Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under read more

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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same read more

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