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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.+ y" P, F$ X8 E) H. x1 \% } I* D! q
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?) j' m/ K9 r6 j( @7 A
- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.% j2 {3 _( B# ^, \
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981; }4 c; W1 `& y- Q$ I9 @
C' b R1 B, O/ V, b0 K! bThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
% p' }6 Q9 n% j- m- B. F. Skinner
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9 k! T- ~' l+ \5 `% zThere 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./ t d* M- r% K$ t* o
- George Pompidou
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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.' S b1 l: X3 |3 L& f
- Anonymous k4 a5 A) l3 ^7 z* O! g
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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. r4 E+ H/ P2 J! N- s) v
- Anonymous
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Computers 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.
3 ?2 O, e, a9 ^. V e- Andy Rooney6 ]1 X% ^7 D7 F3 I8 b# C2 l
% |8 t! V/ {1 u T' [: ?( m" j! SIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.% L6 u1 `( T f
- Richard Power
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/ i5 U7 l6 o. R1 Z* R+ J- uI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
u% \8 X. s% L/ D- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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8 u; A- {" [! F. _& ^/ YIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done." ?* z/ d5 Z8 i& D' Y& C
- 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.- s. e! P8 z5 ^" I
- Anonymous( S2 V3 w/ S( r O% O2 W) }1 H
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.. N' [; b9 Z" Y5 m( S2 M1 f
- Bradley's Bromide# B# O1 b0 T: y" u
7 _0 C! a# F( Q! F; k8 |2 sThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
" c) K2 m$ [* F( D- 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.1 S! e% C! b% |9 Q4 }5 [$ m: c
- Anonymous7 S9 j8 ~: \* O/ d# P2 F+ y0 @* H: G
! @8 l. h! o& o: C% K7 T3 oThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.+ D7 A+ X9 i! h1 p( _
- Jeremy S. Anderson& {' I ]/ W+ ~
. |7 S& M1 F& `* FOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
. f/ X M! e: g, d+ o- r9 o- Elbert Hubbard- l8 W6 k* H5 b+ }
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
6 H& y5 |! l8 d. K; P0 @3 j- David Thornburg
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6 y. w6 {, P. b( v- P8 k; BThose 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.4 k$ a4 s: f7 z" l, }( Z
- Anonymous
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, f& O8 d7 u1 a! PSave early, save often.2 Z' J9 ?2 r; G' W" Q2 Q# V
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word! I- _8 B5 z/ t3 S
. @7 W% K @/ I1 J! nBuild early and build often.# u: O1 b& w& n+ d1 Z" X/ E
- Proprietary developer adage
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: U5 X( n1 D; i9 sRelease early and release often., }- Y T' w; }- `. N
- 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.' ?9 |' r2 F/ T) M* j, l
- Carl Sagan% S& N" @3 l, n7 V4 t6 F0 ~
" Z0 V( n7 Z) ~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.2 Z: Y' Y' |) H$ N K
- Anonymous
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+ I& O4 d# t1 VThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.! @% L$ C6 X) m. ~
- Margaret Thatcher
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& v# w5 G. [ c/ [5 iThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
" w# Y6 ~4 c: l7 P6 v$ L V- Jerry Olson% z: C" J8 ^/ @! l/ `7 V- U
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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.* \, R+ b' L0 `
- Porterfield
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: H6 P1 w( k4 y( }9 KEverything that can be invented has been invented.
0 y) ?3 ?, j0 }1 T" o" ~- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
, l! { O3 [* h* b. g6 f- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969# L! \2 l! R8 i: S7 I' J$ ~
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic." L3 L. o6 ]9 R0 U7 ^4 o
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' E. u l [: b) ?Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced." [# I1 R+ @$ ^" n6 Q, z- b
- Gregory Benford
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& Z, D) o- h7 x# ]. I& bNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.2 a$ U. V% Z; a: B7 P* b R
- Anonymous
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1 w \, v; G) m) f+ [$ u8 gA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.( ~3 |) r- h( ?0 i1 J0 Q/ n
- Alan J. Perlis
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.: L& {6 _% l. L
- Thomas Edison" h. c" J+ S+ c" ~
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Get your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
) N+ g2 y; e' V4 ]+ i9 }& {8 b- 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* [5 o; b2 Z( v0 ]: F5 d2 V4 W% M
0 w) [. }4 @1 G- SThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
4 L E; Q$ r* a6 |4 ~8 }- 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.
7 e- T3 `2 K( e( L! Z! y- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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5 O; |" }/ S; O; m From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.8 k" B; \8 w% @
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy. E# f9 Q% |0 S
; U- X: K% D# ?: n; QTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
3 A, I/ X; q% a ^" h- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.) I8 _! j$ X9 O- y2 N
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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; l3 K) d0 m, Y5 F9 g# lHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
, ] t: c) G% t/ d: k- Al Gore on Y2K
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
0 _; _1 J2 A: p- 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.
/ K8 [7 I3 a) r% Z" z# I- Linus Torvalds
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- Linus Torvalds5 ]3 G/ A0 k" |# S; {4 _1 |
3 ?- b9 w& Z) G5 e$ ]1 H2 P' qWindows is just DOS in drag.
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
: Q' n0 ~+ b }% E1 Y5 N- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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