Paul Baran

Quotes

• “The desire to tell the truth is only one condition for being an intellectual. The other is courage, readiness to carry on rational inquiry to wherever it may lead … to withstand … comfortable and lucrative conformity.”
• “The process of writing is a process of learning; and much has become clearer to me in the attempt to transform my original rough notes into what I hope is an intelligible presentation.”
• “One would think that the record of already existing regulatory agencies is sufficiently eloquent in showing that it is Big Business that does the regulating rather than vice versa.”
• “But when reason and the study of history began revealing the irrationality, the limitations, and the merely transitory nature of the capitalist order, bourgeois ideology as a whole and with it bourgeois economics began abandoning both reason and history.”
• “Much if not all we know about the complex mechanism responsible for the development (and stagnation) of productive forces, and for the rise and decay of social organizations, is the result of the analytical work undertaken by Marx and by those whom he inspired.”
• “If society has a technical need, that helps science forward more than ten universities.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1926-04-29 ) April 29, 1926, Grodno , Poland , (now Belarus )

Died

March 26, 2011 (2011-03-26) (aged 84), Palo Alto, California , U.S.

Citizenship

Poland , United States

Alma mater

Drexel University ( BS ), University of California, Los Angeles ( MS )

Known for

Packet switching

Spouse

Evelyn Murphy Baran ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1955 ) ​

Awards

IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal (1990) , Computer History Museum Fellow (2005) , Marconi Prize (1991) , National Medal of Technology and Innovation (2007) , National Inventors Hall of Fame

Institutions

RAND Corporation

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