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• The tools we use have a profound (and devious!) influence on our thinking habits, and, therefore, on our thinking abilities.
  -- Edsger W. Dijkstra...
• Money is a stupid measurement of achievement but unfortunately it is the only universal measurement we have.
  -- Charles P. Steinmetz...
• How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
  -- Niels Boh...
• We have finished the job, what shall we do with the tools.
• We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets. -- Karl Poppe
• Technological advance is an inherently iterative process.
  One does not simply take sand from the beach and produce a Dataprobe....
• All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.
  -- Kipling...
• Without the faculty of forgetting our past would weigh so heavily on our present that we should not have the strength to confront another moment, still less to live through it.
  -- E.M. Ciora...
• Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
  Paul Valery...