“As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.”
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Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically, ' they really mean, 'not really.'
Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination.
Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources many of them have computers at home, for instance, or their friends have them.
To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.
