User:MattOates

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I'm a Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence student at the University of Wales Aberystwyth. Currently out on an industrial year in Plymouth with the Remote Sensing Group at the Plymouth Marine Laboratories. Soon to finish and return to mother Wales for my fourth and final year at university, where I hope to do my undergrad dissertation on something to do with Artificial Life.

I'm interested in all things quirky and all things SCIENCE! and more so for a combination of the two.

Stupid page of User Boxes

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I've been absorbing Wikipedia for a long time now, but I figured it's about time I gave something back. The following are my meagre attempts at paying for all the info and entertainment I've gained from reading the wiki!

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[edit] Wikipedia (Simple)

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." ~Albert Einstein

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[edit] Quirks Of History

  • "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication." Western Union internal memo, 1876.
  • "Everything that can be invented has been invented." Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.
  • "Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18 000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers of the future may have only 1 000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1½ tons." Popular Mechanics, March 1949.
  • "I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year." The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957.
  • "But what... is it good for ?" An engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, commenting on the microchip in 1968.
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