He did not have a vision before his Xerox visit, and his idea after was simply to make and market the machine he saw come together in his mind.

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The machine is a prosthetic of the human mind.

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Never mind the philosophical question of whether it is wrong to insult a machine.

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Our trouble is not the over-all absence of smartness but the intractable power of pure stupidity, and no machine, or mind, seems extended enough to cure that.

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We'll look forward to the friendlier machine assistants that result... and keep in mind the room for deception when the robots invariably plot to take over the world.

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The machine-tools industry is probably not something that crosses your mind every day.

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And supercomputer programmers, like video-game designers, do not mind learning to program an entirely new machine provided it delivers the performance they are seeking.

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Though others have tried to combine the TV and the PC-- Gateway 's (nyse: GTW - news - people ) Destination PCs come to mind--this machine doesn't seem to be aimed at replacing the TV you already have in the living room.

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"To step into something that was already a well-oiled machine, which is effectively the Broadway cast, it was very much on my mind to not be the weakest link, but once I got comfortable with everything, it was such a fun character and so over the top, " Ferrell says.

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