Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

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About Jef Raskin

Portrait of Jef Raskin

Jef Raskin (born Jeff Raskin; March 9, 1943 – February 26, 2005) was an American human–computer interface expert who conceived and began leading the Macintosh project at Apple in the late 1970s.

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A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

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Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

—H. Mumford Jones

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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.

In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

History

19 Apr 2014 Added