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• But what ... is it good for?" --Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.
• What is a robot you ask? Well, the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy holds the definition.
  The Encyclopedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man....
• IBM Advanced Systems Group -- a bunch of mindless jerks, who'll be first against the wall when the revolution comes.
  .. -- with regrets to D. Adam...
• There was a mad scientist (a mad... social... scientist) who kidnapped three colleague
  an engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician, and locked each of them in seperate cells with plenty of canned food and water but no can opener....
• There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why.
  .. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?...
• The Encyclopaedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man.
  The marketing division of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot as 'Your Plastic Pal Who's Fun To Be With'....
• Scott: "A good crew." LaForge: "Yeah, they are." Sco
  And a fine ship. A credit to her name. But I've found that a ship is only as good as the engineer who takes care of her....
• mainframe n. Term originally referring to the cabinet containing the central processor unit or `main frame' of a room-filling Stone Age batch machine.
  After the emergence of smaller `minicomputer' designs in the early 1970s, the traditional big iron machines were described as `mainframe computers' and eventually just as mainframes....