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What's The Point Of ... New Technology If You Can't Find Some Way To Pervert It?
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...what's the point of ... new technology if you can't find some way to
pervert it?
-- G. A. Effinger, Marid Changes His Mind, IASFM, 1/90
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Can you say "Pervert", I thought you could.
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The guy on the left has an Uzi submachine gun concealed in his attache case....
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A true story: One Bob Sjoberg, new at the MIT AI Lab, expressed some annoyance at the use of jargon....
Established technology tends to persist in the face of new technology.
-- G. Blaauw, one of the designers of System 360...
A decision is what you are finally forced to make when you can not find some dumb committee.