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In a cover article in April, 1984, TIME magazine quoted the editor of a software magazine as saying:
“Put the right kind of software into a computer and it will do whatever you want it to. There may be limits on what you can do with the machines themselves, but there are no limits on what you can do with the software.”
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Harel, D. (1993). Computers are not omnipotent. In: Sommerville, I., Paul, M. (eds) Software Engineering — ESEC '93. ESEC 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 717. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57209-0_2
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