DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS IN THE WORLD - ROMANIA was the eighth country in the world to design and build an electronic computer with electronic tubes (1957) - the CIFA 1 computer in Bucharest and the 11th country in world, which built an electronic computer with transistors and electronic tubes (1963) - the computer DACICC-1 (Automatic Computing Device of the Cluj Computing Institute) at the Computing Institute - Romanian Academy (Cluj-Napoca branch), today called the Computing Institute of “Tiberiu Popoviciu”(ICTP).

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Nature hates calculators.

quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.

quote by Edward Shepherd Mead
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Pocket Calculator

I'm the operator with my pocket calculator
I'm the operator with my pocket calculator
I am adding and subtracting
I'm controlling and composing
I'm the operator with my pocket calculator
I'm the operator with my pocket calculator
I am adding and subtracting
I'm controlling and composing
By pressing down a special key, it plays a little melody
By pressing down a special key, it plays a little melody
I'm the operator with my pocket calculator
I'm the operator with my pocket calculator

song performed by Kraftwerk
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Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

classic quote by Edsgar Dijkstra
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Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

quote by Nicholas Negroponte
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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

classic quote by Isaac Asimov
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People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.

quote by Bruce Scheneier
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

classic quote by Pablo Picasso
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Computer: The new time machine.

Costel Zăgan in Heretical definitions (2014), translated by Dan Costinaş
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Computer Age

Cars and trucks
Fly by me on the corner
But Im all right
Standin proud before the signal
When I see the light
I know Im more than just a number.
And I stand before you
Or else we just dont see the other
Computer age computer age
Computer age.
Bikes and vans
Fly by me on the desert
But Im all right
Standing out here in the hot sun
When I see the light
I feel like more than just a number
And I stand before you
Or else we just dont see the other
Computer age computer age
Computer age.

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song performed by Neil Young
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FUNDAMENTALS OF MODELS FOR COMPUTING AND DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTING - During 1953-1954, ROMANIA ranked third in the world, after the USA and the USSR, in the research activity on "Theory of switching circuits" - after no. of articles (Gr. C. Moisil, CCUB Activity, AMC magazine, Technical Publishing House, no. 13-14, 1970). For these results acad. Gigore C. Moisl received - in 1996, Computer Pioneer Award (IEEE - Computer Society). Programs followed for the national computer and management system, regarding the endowment with computer technology in the period 1971-1980 (1967, 1971, 1972).

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A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.

quote by Paul Valery
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The utility model of computing - computing resources delivered over the network in much the same way that electricity or telephone service reaches our homes and offices today - makes more sense than ever.

quote by Scott McNealy
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My Computer

"what?" they say, "you got a
computer?"

it's like I have sold out to
the enemy.

I had no idea so many
people were prejudiced
against
computers.

even two editors have
written me letters about
the computer.

one disparaged the
computer in a mild and
superior way.
the other seemed
genuinely

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poem by Charles Bukowski
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God is Computing the Time

god is busy computing
in you to make sure each
your cell works, your heart
pumps, and your ears hear
god is too busy computing
and installing the right time
and manner your physique
would give up on itself

poem by John Tiong Chunghoo
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The computing field is always in need of new cliches.

quote by Alan Perlis
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

quote by Alan Perlis
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I'm always crunching numbers, so my calculator watch is a must.

quote by David Neeleman
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The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.

quote by Jack Kilby
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