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It has been said that the computer was invented by the Devil to confuse man and confound God. Fortunately the computer is only a tool devised by man and is no more good or evil than most of man’s other tools, which, when the need arises, can become weapons.
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© 1981 Trevor J. Bentley
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Bentley, T.J. (1981). The Place of the Computer. In: Making Information Systems Work. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03955-5_13
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