Douglas K. Smith
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“David, I feel like the fucking Road Runner. Your corporate staff is like a pack of coyotes. They spend all their time setting traps, trying to get me.” Massaro’s Office Products Division adopted the Road Runner cartoon character as their mascot.”
― Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer
― Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer
“wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready-made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there amplified. The lawyer has at his touch the associated opinions and decisions of his whole experience…. The physician, puzzled by a patient’s reactions, strikes the trail established in studying an earlier similar case, and runs rapidly through analogous case histories, with side references to the classics for the pertinent anatomy and histology. The chemist, struggling with the synthesis of an organic compound, has all the chemical literature before him.”
― Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer
― Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer
“We hired people with fire in their eyes,” said one lab member, while another noted, “The people here all have track records and are used to dealing with lightning in both hands.”
― Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer
― Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer
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