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    It is not always possible to know what one has learned, or when the dawning will arrive. You will continue to shift, sift, to shake out and to double back. The synthesis that finally occurs can be in the most unexpected place and the most unexpected time. My charge ... is to be alert to the dawnings.

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The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the read more

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Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to read more

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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.

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