"Every time I fire a linguist, the performance of our speech recognition system goes up."
— Fred Jelinek

January 1, 1970

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Roger K. Moore gave the wording as "Every time we fire a phonetician/linguist, the performance of our system goes up" and dated it to an IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding workshop held in 1985.