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Calvin Mooers Quotes

d. 1994

Calvin Northrup Mooers (October 4, 1919 – December 1, 1994) was an American computer scientist known for his work in information retrieval and for the programming language TRAC.

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The requirements of information retrieval, of finding information whose location or very existence is a priori unknown.

Calvin Mooers (1947)

People will resist information unless the price of not knowing it greatly exceeds the price of learning it.

to Mooers (1959)

An information retrieval system will tend not to be used whenever it is more painful and troublesome for a customer to have information than for him not to have it... Where an information retrieval system tends not to be used, a more capable information retrieval system may tend to be used even less.

Calvin Mooers (1959)

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