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Quote -October 25, 2011

Postby Warmsoul/Jeanie13 » Mon Oct 24, 2011 6:57 pm

Thanks Stephen.

Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.
-- unknown, Popular Mechanics, March 1949

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
-- Bertrand Russell

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
-- Leo Tolstoy

The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block.
-- Inigo DeLeon

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