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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Always the more beautiful answer who asks the more beautiful question.
Always the more beautiful answer who asks the more beautiful question.
Since the invention of the microprocessor, the cost of moving a byte of information around has fallen on the order read more
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.
Why shouldn't a PC work like a refrigerator or a toaster?
Why shouldn't a PC work like a refrigerator or a toaster?
The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus read more
The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.
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.
Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique added to the armamentarium read more
Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares, assess randomization, statistical significance, and standard deviations is less than illiterate; he is preconscious.
