By 1985, Machines Will Be Capable Of

A Complex Decision Is Like A Great River, Drawing From Its Many Tributaries The Innumerable Premises Of Which It Is Constituted.

The World Is Vast, Beautiful, And Fascinating, Even Awe-inspiring - But Impersonal. It Demands Nothing Of Me, And Allows Me To Demand Nothing Of It.

By 1985, Machines Will Be Capable Of Doing Any Work Man Can Do.

Because He Treats The World As Rather Empty And Ignores The Interrelatedness Of All Things (so Stupefying To Thought And Action), Administrative Man Can Make Decisions With Relatively Simple Rules Of Thumb That Do Not Make Impossible Demands Upon His Capacity For Thought.

In The Computer Field, The Moment Of Truth Is A Running Program; All Else Is Prophecy.