I am totally inept with machinery and, when someone asks me if I work with any computer myself, I shudder and say, “I am a signpost, sir. I point the way. I don’t go there.” | |
— Isaac Asimov | |
From his book: “The Roving Mind“ | |
[Asimov was one of the premier futurologist of the last century who loved to poke fun at his own reputation. This book is a compilation of articles written over several years. This particular quote is from an article published in 1981, the same year the first IBM PC came out. While “home computers”, “microcomputers”, etc had been in existence for almost a decade, the release of the IBM PC is generally seen as the event that “big business” marked the acceptance of personal computers. After all, if IBM made them, they weren’t just toys anymore. | |
What Asimov might have added, had he been more serious in his statement, was: “…Yet.” — KMAB] | |
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