Political Quotes

“they set forth the problem in this letter. Among other things, this letter says: . . .the current provision in law would understandably be aimed at protecting the highest performing computers from being exported to countries of particular foreign policy concern. Yet just last year, a late threshold adjustment coupled with the 6-month waiting period, led to American companies, Apple and IBM, being effectively denied the ability to sell single-processor personal computers in some markets because technology has advanced so rapidly that yesterday's supercomputers had literally become today's personal computers. It wasn't many years ago that I went to the fifth floor of the Clark County Courthouse in Las Vegas. I took a tour of the fifth floor. On the entire fifth floor of this big building was a big computer that handled all of the processing for Clark County. The temperature had to be perfectly controlled. That floor is now gone. It is used for other things. That same processing of information can now be accomplished with a computer the size of a personal computer. I was able, fortunately, to work with Congress and obtain a supercomputer for the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. We had a big celebration. At that time, the computer was very large. It was probably the size of two of these Senate desks. That supercomputer is now 10 years old. A supercomputer today is not a big piece of equipment. We are living in the Dark Ages. We have to change the law.”