"When we're able to resign ourselves to the wishes that will never come true, there can be enormous energies available within us for whatever we CAN do."

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A source of strength in the early days was that groups in various parts of the world were prepared to construct experimental computers without necessarily intending them to be the prototype for serial production. As a result, there became available a body of knowledge about what would work and what would not work.

— Maurice Wilkes