The Osborne Computer Corporation was a pioneering maker of portable computers.
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“I never thought as it was any harm to say a young man was handsome. But I shall never think of him any more now. For handsome is as handsome does.”
—John Osborne (1929–1994)
“What, then, is the basic difference between today’s computer and an intelligent being? It is that the computer can be made to see but not to perceive. What matters here is not that the computer is without consciousness but that thus far it is incapable of the spontaneous grasp of pattern—a capacity essential to perception and intelligence.”
—Rudolf Arnheim (b. 1904)
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—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)