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If the designers of X Windows built cars, there would be no fewer
than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed
the same principles—but you’d be able to shift gears with your
car stereo. Useful feature, that.

—Marcus J. Ranum
Digital Equipment Corporation

If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer,
a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per
gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside.

—Robert Cringely, InfoWorld