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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Plato
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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Plato, The Republic
 1005    
The most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as the passage from labor to leisure. Leisure contains the future, it is the new horizon. The prospect then is one of unremitting labor to bequeath to future generations a chance of founding a society of leisure that will overcome the demands and compulsions of productive labor so that time may be devoted to creative activities or simply to pleasure and happiness.
Henri Lefebvre
 1005    
Computer programmers do it byte by byte
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You go to your TV to turn your brain off. You go to the computer when you want to turn your brain on.
Steve Jobs
 1004    
But I don't have an "any key" on my computer!
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To bemoan the messiness of politics is not just a folly it betrays a dangerous impatience with basic realities. It is like becoming disturbed that people do not fall in love sensibly -- and so deciding to computerize the problem.
Theodore Roszak
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A computer, to print out a fact, Will divide, multiply, and subtract. But this output can be No more than debris, If the input was short of exact.
Gigo
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Micro Credo: Never trust a computer bigger than you can lift.
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What is the velocity your computer?;"Alex Naula, GC Physics major
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I'm all for computer dating, but I wouldn't want one to marry my sister.
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Think of your family tonight. Try to crawl home after the computer crashes.
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Command, n.: Statement presented by a human and accepted by a computer in such a manner as to make the human feel as if he is in control.
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This is the excellent foppery of the world: that when we are sick in fortune -- often the surfeits of our own behavior -- we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars, as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star!
William Shakespeare
 1004    
A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
Alexander Cockburn
 1004    
Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
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Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
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I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.
James Thurber - US Writer, Humorist, and Cartoonist
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One good reason why computers can do more work than people is that they never have to stop and answer the phone.
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Bolub's Fourth Law of Computerdom: Project teams detest weekly progress reporting because it so vividly manifests their lack of progress.
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A Law of Computer Programming: Make it possible for programmers to write in English and you will find the programmers cannot write in English.
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Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.
Albert Einstein
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The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much.
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You know you've been spending too much time on the computer when your friend misdates a check, and you suggest adding a "++" to fix it.
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It seems to me the book has not just aesthetic values-- the charming little clothy box of the thing, the smell of the glue, even the print, which has its own beauty. But there's something about the sensation of ink on paper that is in some sense a thing, a phenomenon rather than an epiphenomenon. I can't break the association of electric trash with the computer screen. Words on the screen give the sense of being just another passing electronic wriggle.
John Updike
 1004    
ADA, n.: Something you need only know the name of to be an Expert in Computing. Useful in sentences like, "We had better develop an ADA awareness.
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Hey, did you know they have the internet for computers now?;"Homer
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Turnaucka's Law: The attention span of a computer is only as long as its electrical cord.
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Information Center, n.: A room staffed by professional computer people whose job it is to tell you why you cannot have the information you require.
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Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon.
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Hardware, n.: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked.
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husband and wife were trying to set up a new password for their computer. Her husband put 'mypenis' and the wife fell on the ground laughing cause it said, 'Error. Not long enough.'
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What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton on its peak.
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You must realize that the computer has it in for you. The irrefutable proof of this is that the computer always does what you tell it to do.
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If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and none dare criticize it.
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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.
Louis B. Lundborg
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The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.
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Laura: It's so nice you trust me with the mouse! Alana: Um, actually, do you want to trade places? (on Alana's computer after Laura clicks someplace random...) Alana: Well, then I get the keyboard!
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I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.
Bill Gates
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What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them?;"Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All
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Computer Science is merely the post-Turing decline in formal systems theory.
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On-line, adj.: The idea that a human being should always be accessible to a computer.
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Office Automation, n.: The use of computers to improve efficiency by removing anyone you would want to talk with over coffee.
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At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer you will find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer.
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There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as 'nutty methods.' Or you can put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as a complete waste of time.
Scott Adams
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The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer.
Dr. Albert Ellis
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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
Bette Davis
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Let each one do just as he has purposed in his heart; not grudgingly or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver. [2 Corinthians 9:7]
Bible
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Its not compulsory to tell the truth.........its just advisable to.
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Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
Joseph Campbell
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