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Quotes from Computers Then and Now — Maurice Wilkes

1913–2010 England

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Surveying the shifts of interest among computer scientists and the ever-expanding family of those who depend on computers for their work, one cannot help being struck by the power of the computer to bind together, in a genuine community of interest, people whose motivations differ widely.

Computers Then and Now (1968)

A source of strength in the early days was that groups in various parts of the world were prepared to construct experimental computers without necessarily intending them to be the prototype for serial production. As a result, there became available a body of knowledge about what would work and what would not work.

Computers Then and Now (1968)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Maurice Wilkes (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.