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Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.
P. J. O'Rourke
P. J. O'Rourke
P. J. O'Rourke
Born: Nov 14, 1947

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