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“When I use a PC today I cannot understand why a machine with 1,000 times more processing power has a worse user response than the machine I was using in the late ’80s at Acorn,’ remarks Steve Furber. ‘Well, I do know why it is, but it still seems the wrong answer.”
― Electronic Dreams: How 1980s Britain Learned to Love the Computer
― Electronic Dreams: How 1980s Britain Learned to Love the Computer
“The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.”
― Hiroshima Notes
― Hiroshima Notes
“I looked at myself in the mirror. I looked awful, but I always look awful in the mirror. I keep myself going with the firm belief that my real face is much better looking.”
― When Gravity Fails
― When Gravity Fails
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