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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
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1 s; i, {! s3 M+ {6 h7 g! u# F5 a$ X0 jWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?; y: n3 \8 ~$ G, _+ u# B
- T.S. Elliot. `2 u8 f* r' r' G) L- i* K1 E
E, X8 W3 ?7 H, i! G% v640K ought to be enough for anybody.& @* f% Z: v9 k) d- ^
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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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.
0 p" h: |, `' f9 t4 o% e0 m- George Pompidou, g, r$ ?4 u# D* e
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Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.1 t m3 O/ e( }. B, [: C$ M( X0 B
- Anonymous
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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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# s( P7 l8 s2 ^ p; sComputers 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 ]% Q3 V0 C% x$ h) R- Andy Rooney
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6 A8 B* Z# n1 p+ b2 p/ a6 xIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.! j7 H P7 q+ }" p- h# D% p+ w% \
- Richard Power$ L7 h4 p* Q+ Z) s) N
8 J2 {5 K- _& UI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
( g# |- |) }# |. @+ _- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
- P i, w: x# T( A. B( M- Scott Adams
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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.& f9 o5 g4 h; G j) b$ L
- Anonymous
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
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# T$ d4 d: U" y5 L* i6 YThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.$ v- x3 e8 ?$ z4 y/ s4 [+ `
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric$ m- M$ [' S# M9 G: [
; K, d' c" E2 a" u- }4 x9 iAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.' t/ B" ~5 S# D
- Anonymous. G3 J J' m X! Z i2 m
. \6 G5 o% N, h9 c0 z VThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence./ e3 e& |' d' U" r: y7 n- y4 |" I
- Jeremy S. Anderson1 }& s! D5 r) _- |
* K# v( Q! V2 |1 @One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
' J6 O8 K+ I1 A8 n! a) t2 \* B- Elbert Hubbard
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' g {/ n! z( f+ A" F2 \) Z" @Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.) c6 _. z$ w4 Q5 ?! h. z
- David Thornburg6 p( g6 l2 d- S/ Y& y3 r& R
' w5 @3 r9 w- r1 t- rThose 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.
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6 `. z W' u, _, n# _4 RSave early, save often.+ t) Q( H( N* b8 f/ M# f
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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) [# g* }5 H& E( J/ TBuild early and build often.
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Release early and release often.* D7 c; u, [) [" O
- 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.5 K0 x% M0 l+ j
- 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.& B* n3 K5 n) ?% g! q$ p
- Anonymous* C! u1 p5 W& Z/ p/ Q
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There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
$ I, }( s2 b! c1 E' ]- Margaret Thatcher
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% }$ _9 ]' |7 M' W# ~% cThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon." @3 v, v. L4 T( [0 C% Q
- Jerry Olson
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The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.
4 A. r8 S8 M, S0 u. R- Porterfield
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0 w8 g4 ~) a. e6 z$ l5 O: Y9 L: ZEverything that can be invented has been invented./ t# F, k+ U, N$ j0 x3 M
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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" V; t) V& r9 [7 g0 cGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT Y' n/ |% u9 i3 q w# [
- Fairchild Research and Development, 19690 c n6 G' d u3 c9 o6 ?
7 W y6 w0 D. a/ F; T/ nAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.5 u9 a$ x! P: ~2 L% T
- Arthur C. Clarke
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- Gregory Benford) y7 R* i- G0 N, W) E
4 H: ]- Q S( r$ v+ j& tNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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. \$ t' T: j, W- yA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
; v/ ]% ?7 r# A+ l- Alan J. Perlis
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.2 e, W8 T2 \0 V! b, ~
- Thomas Edison
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. V" y' f: e8 Q' y8 j2 XGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.7 q6 n! t! P0 ^" z" ?) {
- 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
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- Senator Bob Dole
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
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( ?/ r1 L8 ~8 w$ I/ d" B. A From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
! ^4 y% F! k1 o+ v d' R) m- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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# V( T" [/ A% c3 {Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.1 h8 J# \; `- m3 O9 o
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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8 @4 Z8 X2 e& D; o% Z3 @AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.# q5 I }! s6 r& g/ L! \* T5 t
- 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?4 a/ O; y# g- m4 z% d
- Al Gore on Y2K- w- Y- w+ ?( Z" f( ?3 ]4 h9 f
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- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.+ v0 Y$ m1 v, K& ^) {$ [* h
- Linus Torvalds0 M7 t2 J: a! i( @% @& S8 `
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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.8 a( F4 t. V2 R# F5 K& m/ S7 _* n: S
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Windows is just DOS in drag." G6 f& j% W# X5 ^* }: j
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5 C" y6 C' x( W9 iThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home., f+ Z( i( O+ p, A0 Y
- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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