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Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.

People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.

Computing technology started out as number-crunching.

The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.

The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

The value of having numbers - data - is that they aren't subject to someone else's interpretation. They are just the numbers. You can decide what they mean for you.

Something else has happened with computers.

Some traders still think that a computer could not trade as well as they can.