"The term, information at your fingertips, is..." - Quote by Bill Gates
The term, information at your fingertips, is to remind people what a broad role the personal computer will be playing. It's not a computation device, it's not a word processing or a spreadsheet device. It's a window onto the world of information.
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“The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.”
“The close relationships we form between researchers and product groups have already shown we can move the great ideas as they come along, without a schedule, into the products.”
“I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.”
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“You can go overboard in how quickly you might expect new technologies to transform people's lives. But I very much believe the way software is used, the way information gets distributed, will be dramatically different within 10 years. There is fire to go with all this smoke.”
“[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human estate.”
“The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.”
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“The newspapers, I perceive, devote some of their columns specially to politics or government without charge; and this, one would say, is all that saves it; but as I love literature and to some extent the truth also, I never read those columns at any rate. I do not wish to blunt my sense of right so much.”
“The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking.”
“I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway.”