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Re:IBM Punched Card Typography by sverige on Monday January 30, 2017 @10:55PM (#13527433)
From this reference: "Solipsistic and dazzled by its own swirling universe of technical possibilities, IBM was self-gripped by a special amoral corporate mantra: if it can be done, it should be done. To the blind technocrat, the means were more important than the ends."

How much this sounds like Silicon Valley today.

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Re:IBM Punched Card Typography by Retra on Monday January 30, 2017 @11:41PM (#13527686)
If it can be done someone will eventually do it. Make sure you do it first, or your enemies/competitors will do it first.

It's really just a rational survival principle.

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Re:IBM Punched Card Typography by orbat on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @04:44AM (#13529133)
The point was that you should be be asking whether you should be doing something in the first place
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