History of Computing Hardware Basics

Technology is:anything that wasn’t around when you were born.

ALAN KAY

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History … illuminates reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life.

CICERO

Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly found, given and transmitted from the past.

KARL MARX

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

GEORGE SANTAYANA

Starvation, desertion, typhus, and suicide would rob the French Army of more men than all the battles of the Russian invasion combined.

PETERSON, R. K. D.

The Russian campaign was the decisive turning-point of the Napoleonic Wars.

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