Bradley's Bromide: If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into acommittee. That will do them in.

There were in this country two very large monopolies. The larger of thetwo had the following record: the Vietnam War, Watergate, double- digitinflation, fuel and energy shortages, bankrupt airlines, and the 8-centpostcard. The second was responsible for such things as the transistor,the solar cell, lasers, synthetic crystals, high fidelity stereo recording,sound motion pictures, radio astronomy, negative feedback, magnetic tape,magnetic "bubbles", electronic switching systems, microwave radio and TVrelay systems, information theory, the first electrical digital computer,and the first communications satellite. Guess which one got to tell theother how to run the telephone business?

Any excuse will serve a tyrant. ― Aesop

It is much easier to suggest solutions when you know nothing about the problem.