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Killer applications change technological advances from curiosities into moneymaking essentials.
Bill Gates The Road Ahead · 1995

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“Many computer programs of the present day are of inordinate size—many thousands of pages of closely printed text. Mathematics has no tradition of dealing with expressions on this scale.”

Tony Hoare · The Mathematics of Programming, 1985 · Primary source

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