If cars were like computers
Posted April 17, 2008 in Living Sustainably
"If the automobile had followed the same development cycle 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 X. Cringely
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(Passed along to me by a computer-geek friend. According to Wikipedia, "Robert X. Cringely is the pen name of both technology journalist Mark Stephens and a string of writers for a column in InfoWorld, the one-time weekly computer trade newspaper published by IDG, which is now entirely electronic.")
