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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.4 y4 H @# `' c5 X; I
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum! g, c p E6 |. h. g
% N, R' g2 d/ M9 GWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?; T! r% ?3 a0 w- H; H5 B
- T.S. Elliot) _1 |; o4 I9 y8 c8 a/ h) {
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- A r4 y3 F1 U) ~- B. F. Skinner" Y5 {2 G$ s6 t+ e4 X/ r
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There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.
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5 Z& f8 ^. S) NTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
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9 R8 {/ m$ m, n; N! @For years there has been a theory that millions of monkeys typing at random on millions of typewriters would reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. The Internet has proven this theory to be untrue.
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7 {1 E. _. e1 l- B" F1 l9 bComputers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.7 g4 W. _' t: Y' K( ?3 ]* y
- Andy Rooney
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0 e# E. z# h+ Y, `( m5 o% MIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers., h6 M7 f1 `' E- j
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 19431 G3 W. Z9 f9 O; Z6 {# A
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
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In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it., D& t+ y( P8 M+ b
- Anonymous
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in. ?1 h/ h8 H# j* b& q% O7 e
- Bradley's Bromide
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B7 l( @6 Q1 `9 Q% V: s5 xThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
) e, g4 c x2 b- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
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# F; ~4 k& S7 T3 h. SThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.$ V2 o9 Z7 O6 K. T8 `
- Jeremy S. Anderson9 S. p. s0 N" S8 A `
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
0 T/ @, ~, [& o- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
+ F. x) k# l, b! s; W) d- David Thornburg
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Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.- o. ^ `5 Z9 o$ B- ?; B
- Anonymous
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Save early, save often./ A6 b x4 s% |8 v- s
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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' O0 W& i! j$ I$ G# S3 {9 XBuild early and build often.
; \# x* }8 x' e2 t. p( n- Proprietary developer adage
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* U4 M# E9 s9 kRelease early and release often.- y$ z J! \8 [& {8 |
- Open source developer adage
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.# a: H6 Q( L/ Z, J6 P7 m& ]1 Q) b
- Carl Sagan
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If you tried to read every document on the web, then for each day's effort you would be a year further behind in your goal.8 Q2 ^" O* P9 P! Y: A2 z# R7 x
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/ ?7 ~/ H0 z7 _, ^& }There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
; |* @1 a3 t. u" f) x- s5 ~- Margaret Thatcher
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.' e, g: z: r, }8 C7 D9 h& B* }
- Jerry Olson
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9 j1 ` ]- {' {1 {) Z9 p+ ~8 T; vThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.- u1 Z4 Z1 Q5 T1 n7 S) \
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
5 s& Z- Y. ^8 G; U; e5 H9 X! z- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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. W3 N$ s7 b `( J( OGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
7 K" m, d: \9 Z" J& E- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.( Z* [2 i. m5 ?
- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
. V4 N, w$ p& N# ]! w4 @* O- Gregory Benford6 I3 J0 o; r6 Y7 H! U2 D- ^3 c" `- l
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.5 X, Z6 D" G# [7 N5 k
- Anonymous
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" O7 [: C2 [4 ]; u$ zA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
4 s% k& m' G9 `- Alan J. Perlis
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7 o: @( `( \' x+ OI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.9 @3 E" K/ z* q1 j7 ?
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5 t' L3 t8 H2 rGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.( F" E* L9 s! |! \- J: s
- Joe Keenan, President of Atari, in 1976 responding to Steve Jobs' offer to sell him rights to the new personal computer he and Steve Wozniak developed# T0 u# m S4 R) w3 ]
5 H, p( P1 e1 }( mThe Internet is a great way to get on the net. ]' e. J9 E0 T3 ]7 P$ i
- Senator Bob Dole: [, e" S" h1 p
% Z6 }2 |5 d6 DComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.- }; i; K8 C# u1 ]: |
- Popular Mechanics, 19499 Z6 m+ p/ ]; Y7 s5 K
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.# d( g! d9 G p6 N! Q% X* b5 X
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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; y/ i' H; _4 ?; TTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.+ a. _: U+ G; Z; i/ y: g/ \8 R4 Z. l
- Andrew Heller, IBM* J% a* {& q0 Z e0 }+ s9 f% l
7 S) H& U3 c- yAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.) |. Z" B! L9 [* \
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?5 b! U9 {: E6 h4 t5 q5 F8 T
- Al Gore on Y2K
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
! c- O, v% C' y# `- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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% ^- }" D( {+ B0 ^/ l# nThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
, S* M) p' c" K/ W6 A9 a3 I% Y- Linus Torvalds0 Z5 r1 g% A4 R# Y( i* u
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To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.
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* p' H5 W# W( q5 VWindows is just DOS in drag.. g! l# y# p# S9 p
- Anonymous
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# O& [/ l$ H0 Y; }+ nThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
( z* m! w& [& Z* p9 X6 _6 g" n- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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