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== Flight == | == Flight == | ||
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The brothers were somber when they left Kitty Hawk on 22 August 1901. Wilbur told Orville on the train ride back to Dayton, "Not within a thousand years would man ever fly."<br/> | The brothers were somber when they left Kitty Hawk on 22 August 1901. Wilbur told Orville on the train ride back to Dayton, "Not within a thousand years would man ever fly."<br/> | ||
- [http://www.wright-brothers.org/History_Wing/Wright_Story/Inventing_the_Airplane/Not_Within_A_Thousand_Years/Not_Within_A_Thousand_Years.htm Not Within A Thousand Years] | - [http://www.wright-brothers.org/History_Wing/Wright_Story/Inventing_the_Airplane/Not_Within_A_Thousand_Years/Not_Within_A_Thousand_Years.htm Not Within A Thousand Years] | ||
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Latest revision as of 14:44, 2 April 2019
Within these castle walls be forged Mavens of Computer Science ...
— Merlin, The Coder
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"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers" - Attributed to Thomas Watson, former CEO of IBM, in 1943. Note that there is some dispute if he ever made this statement, but it is widely attributed to him.
