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• Computers are immensely powerful tools that will achieve even greater powers in the future.
  Incredibly powerful computers, yes....
• Even things in themselves not positively advantageous, sometimes become so, by their tendency to provoke exertion.
  Every new scene, which is opened to the busy nature of man to rouse and exert itself, is the addition of a new energy to the general stock of effort....
• It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do
  ince, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that even the most speculative minds can fully understand....
• Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.
  The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come....
• Persevering mediocrity is much more respectable, and unspeakably more useful than talented inconstancy.
  -- Dr. James Hamilto...
• IV. The time required for an object to fall twenty stories is greater than or equal to the time it takes for whoever knocked it off the ledge to spiral down twenty flights to attempt to capture it unbroken.
  Such an object is inevitably priceless, the attempt to capture it inevitably unsuccessful....
• Fried's 1st Rule: Increased automation of clerical function invariably results in increased operational costs.
• A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. -- Alexander Hamilto
• I think the first duty of society is justice. -- Alexander Hamilto