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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Greetings SIGCIS members:</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">We recently moved offices during a building renovation, and in the process I found a lot of stuff, including a folder of quotations. I've pulled out some of the better ones, and excluded ones that I could not verify.
I hope you don't mind:</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Paul Ceruzzi</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">National Air and Space Museum</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Washington, DC</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">___________________________</p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#222222;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">“I have discovered a truly remarkable proof of this theorem, which this margin is too small to contain.”
– Pierre Fermat, 1640<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#222222;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">“…the Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves.” – Ada Augusta, 1842<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">“For about a year now I’ve been occupied with thoughts about a mechanical brain.” – Konrad Zuse, 1937<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">“First actual case of bug being found.”
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>- Grace Hopper, 1947<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">“Calculations can be performed at high speed only if instructions are supplied at high speed” – John Mauchly, 1948<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">“Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.”
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>– John von Neumann, 1949 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">“The unexpected results would then enable machine owners to say with something akin to parental pride, ‘My machine (instead of “my little boy”)
said such a funny thing this morning!’” – Alan Turing, ca 1950<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">“…the push-button age is already obsolete; the buttons now push themselves.” -- John Diebold, 1952.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">“…if it should ever turn out that the basic logics of a machine designed for the numerical solution of differential equations coincide with
the logics of a machine intended to make bills for a department store, I would regard this as the most amazing coincidence that I have ever encountered.” – Howard Aiken, 1956<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">“Open the pod bay doors please, Hal.” – “Dave” (played by actor Keir Dullea), 1968<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">“<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Go To</b> Statement Considered Harmful” – Edsger Dijkstra, 1968<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">“Give us a reading on the 1202 program alarm.” – Neil Armstrong, July 20, 1969<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">“Nothing would please me more than to hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software.” – Bill Gates, 1976<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">“…I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like GNU) for 386 (486) AT clones.” – Linus Torvalds, August
25, 1991<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;background:white">“Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home
of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.” – John Perry Barlow, 1996</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
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