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you're the product

If you're not paying for something, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold.

Re: social media, 26 Aug 2010, http://www.metafilter.com/95152/Userdriven-discontent#3256046

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.

A program is a spell cast over a computer, turning input into error messages.

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

We can walk our road together if our goals are the same.
We can run alone and free if we persue a different aim.

/*
* we mean to emit floating-point code. figure out what we want to do,
* figure out who we are, and do the right thing.
*/

The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.

Because vitually everyone was against us ... I knew we were on the right track.

We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.

ILP 1996

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