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"Anything that can be automatically done for you can be automatically done to you." – Wyland's Law of Automation
"We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles." – Thomas Edison, during the first public demonstration of his incandescent on 31 December 1879.
"Oh! nature's noblest gift—my gray-goose quill! Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from thy parent-bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men!" – Lord Byron, 'English Bards and Scotch Reviewers' (1809).
"The question of whether a computer is playing chess, or doing long division, or translating Chinese, is like the question of whether robots can murder or airplanes can fly -- or people…
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