sepus

“傍聴者がゾロ〳〵出たのです。公判廷は此度は他の被告人の取調べに移つたらしい様子です。そして、私達はその傍聴人の空席を取りはづしてはなりませんでした。”
― Ōsugi Sakae, Aru onna no saiban

“The University of Michigan opened its new Computer Center in 1971, in a brand-new building on Beal Avenue in Ann Arbor, with beige-brick exterior walls and a dark-glass front. The university’s enormous mainframe computers stood in the middle of a vast white room, looking, as one faculty member remembers, “like one of the last scenes in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.” Off to the side were dozens of keypunch machines—what passed in those days for computer terminals. In 1971, this was state of the art. The University of Michigan had one of the most advanced computer science programs in the world, and over the course of the Computer Center’s life, thousands of students passed through that white room, the most famous of whom was a gawky teenager named Bill Joy.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success