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Vannevar Bush Quotes

American electrical engineer and science administrator (1890–1974)

Vannevar Bush (11 March 1890 – 30 June 1974) was an American engineer and science administrator known for his work on analog computing, his political role in the development of the atomic bomb as a primary organizer of the Manhattan Project, the founding of Raytheon, and the idea of the memex which later inspired the creation of hypertext and the World Wide Web.

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Alternative Names: Vanevar Bush • V. Bush

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There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.

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