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The computer is just an instrument for doing faster what we already know how to do slower. All pretension to computer intelligence and paradise-tomorrow promises should be toned down before the public turns away in disgust. And if that should happen, our civilization might not survive.
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Kac, M., Rota, GC., Schwartz, J.T. (1986). More Discrete Thoughts. In: Discrete Thoughts. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6667-4_26
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