Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.
quote by Ted Nelson
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The Gnostics were rapidly driven out of business by the hierarchical orthodox Christians.
quote by Robert Shea
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Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers-- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
quote by Edward Abbey
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American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.
quote by Martin Fleischmann
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Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.
quote by Friedrich August von Hayek
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Pillow Words
Roman alphabetical lucubrations,
left brained hierarchical,
appear awkward concatenations
long-winded, farsical
compared to pillow word pictogram self referential
synthesis
(8 June 2008)
poem by Jonathan Robin
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.
quote by George Orwell
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In general, human societies are not innovative. They are hierarchical and ritualistic. Suggestions for change are greeted with suspicion; they imply an unpleasant future variation in ritual and hierarchy; an exchange of one set of rituals for another, or perhaps for a less structured society with fewer rituals. And yet there are times when societies must change.
Carl Sagan in Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
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I use computers for email, staying current with my own website as well as finding important information through other websites. I also use it for creating MP3 files of new music I'm working on.
quote by Clint Black
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That's the new way - with computers, computers, computers. That's the way we can have the cell survive and get some new information in high resolution. We started about five years ago and, today, I think we have reached the target.
quote by Lennart Nilsson
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Heaven Above, Heaven Below
Night opens wide the burning Macrocosm,-
And heaven's hierarchies come into view
Lo, the spirit sings, and the elements dance
Interwoven with snaky locks of starlight.
And the Microcosm grows distinct in the deep night:
We hear the roar of elements spinning inside us,-
And behold our own hierarchical assemblage
From close stars to dim-eyed spots of light.
There is a milky way in the soul as in the heavens;
There is a multitude in both of these creations:
The same word is stamped in both of these books -
And twin scales measure the same weight.
There is a He in the flames of depths revealed;
There is an I in the deepest miracles.
poem by Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov
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Neutralize
In cluttered heads where worries lie
amid the harmless reveries,
A myriad of troubles vie
with varying degrees of pleas.
The winning ones reclassify
the rest as trivialities,
But lest such dreads intensify
cool heads employ penned strategies.
Self medicate with lullaby,
indulge poetic fantasies,
Let rhyme and rhythm overfly
or sample free verse subtleties;
A friend had a great idea for a game. He said-
'Well, you give everyone a suit of armour and a hockey stick',
'And what are the rules'? I asked,
'What rules'? he replied,
'I see', I said.
In lines of warp and weft I'll ply
a blanket of absurdities,
And thereby try to stifle my
hierarchical anxieties.
poem by Diane Hine
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Man is not a machine... Although man most certainly processes information, he does not necessarily process it in the way computers do. Computers and men are not species of the same genus... However much intelligence computers may attain, now or in the furture, theirs must always be an intelligence alien to genuine human problems and concerns.
quote by Joseph Weizenbaum
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Papyrus
Let me go first in the cave
to see the hollow-eyed, bird-face,
my ancestor, relic of reclusive
committment, eaten by hierarchical
grass, inch by inch.
Calories burn to free the bones
from the green pond, beached, skinned
and fished alive for a weird ritual
offering rice, flowers, tamarind and wheat.
Bald, hungry eyes were looking at approvingly.
I was searching unself papyrus,
to print the tale of agonising
travel of a small colossus, from
night to night to track a dragging sun
in mud and water.
O, groaning seed, you are the paradox.
Neither tree, nor root, only a promise
to destroy the fear. I will wait till the next
sun-eclipse, when you turn
outside into inside!
poem by Satish Verma
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People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.
quote by Bruce Scheneier
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The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.
quote by Adam Osborne
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Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.
quote by Philip Emeagwali
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The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.
quote by Adam Osborne
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It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers.
quote by Bill Budge
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We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.
quote by Lenny Kravitz
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They went back there, looked at all the computers, asked me to come in and tell them what all the computers were for specifically so they knew how to dismantle the network I had been running.
quote by Sherman Austin
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