There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.

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D.J.Peters
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There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.

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“There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.”
Ken Olson, founder and president of DigitalEquipment Corp

“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”
Thomas J. Watson, former chairman of IBM

“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”
Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter

“640K ought to be enough for anybody.”
William (“Bill”) H. Gates

“If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens ?”
Seymour Cray, father of super computing

“The PC is the LSD of the 90’s.”
Timothy Leary, educator and psychologist

“A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.”
Paul Erdos, mathematician.
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I wanted to reply "luckily I can switch off all the computers in my home without any direct consequence. Which is different for my 10 year old car." But that is not true since I have 'smart' (electricity) meter now. And my induction cooker, oven, heating system, door bell and alarm clock for tomorrow will also fail if the computer inside stops. Now, I am going to brush my teeth the old-fashioned manual way...
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badidea wrote:I wanted to reply "luckily I can switch off all the computers in my home without any direct consequence. Which is different for my 10 year old car." But that is not true since I have 'smart' (electricity) meter now. And my induction cooker, oven, heating system, door bell and alarm clock for tomorrow will also fail if the computer inside stops. Now, I am going to brush my teeth the old-fashioned manual way...
My teeth are like stars!
They come out at night.
badidea
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I fotgot the comuter in my washing machine and weight measuring scale, but that last one seems broken anyway.
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“I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.” ― Bjarne Stroustrup
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D.J.Peters wrote:“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”
Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter

“If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens ?”
Seymour Cray, father of super computing

“The PC is the LSD of the 90’s.”
Timothy Leary, educator and psychologist

“A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.”
Paul Erdos, mathematician.
Those ones, at least, are certainly true!
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badidea wrote:I fotgot the comuter in my washing machine and weight measuring scale, but that last one seems broken anyway.
Due to overload? *grin*
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“If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens ?”
I like this one. It makes you think, because there are some cases where 1024 chickens would be preferable.

If you have a large yard covered with chicken feed that you needed to clean up, would you rather use 1024 chickens, or two strong oxen?
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counting_pine wrote:...there are some cases where 1024 chickens would be preferable.
Rice fields are usually plowed by a flock of ducks.
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grindstone wrote:
badidea wrote:I forgot the computer in my washing machine and weight measuring scale, but that last one seems broken anyway.
Due to overload? *grin*
The thing is rated for 180 kg, even if I stand on my own head and then step on the thing, I won't reach that. But it has some long term stability issues, the numbers do seem to go up slowly over time.
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Very strange. My old-fashioned analogue scale has exactly the same issue. Maybe not only the global average temperature is rising, but also the gravity...
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grindstone wrote:Very strange. My old-fashioned analogue scale
My state-of-the-art digital scale always tells me "one person only, please" ;-)
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