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We're flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge. We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.

— Grace Hopper The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper (1987)

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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.

I've always been more interested in the future than in the past.

We must state relationships, not procedures.

Management and the Computer of the Future (1962)

In total desperation, I called over to the engineering building, and I said, "Please cut off a nanosecond and send it over to me."

I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, "What are you?"

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