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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from., N. h" [/ ]7 C H9 G
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum- I- C- f) ~: ^* D5 {6 u
+ ?! Z' n/ i1 B7 g9 C* a6 s1 `Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?9 K( d- \: W% }
- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
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- _# r ?$ b' P+ GThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.4 ^/ V. H" [ b7 M; m4 [# G* h
- B. F. Skinner
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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.
9 }$ M( {" N" F- George Pompidou
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1 h( h c7 y; \! r' Z2 i3 M" iTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.- N7 g6 q' O$ w+ W
- 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.
' G7 M0 v3 s/ R- 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 m p" t# V" ]: @( p
- Andy Rooney
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! b2 x) u" T/ U; }4 p% K5 BIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.) \8 V) B6 X, b
- Richard Power* W; V0 b9 D- m' W
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
' `$ {& i* i! b( g% r" V' o- 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.9 y- W7 H9 d( N: x' U
- Scott Adams8 ] q1 ~- u: a6 Q
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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.
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.5 W4 S* d& l& a: Q
- Bradley's Bromide
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" V5 ^1 y( G( UThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
* q6 F4 m( t6 [7 t2 g0 E- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric, o& p8 o) p+ b+ `: V- N; T
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At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
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There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
6 W+ y; B6 w/ b( D2 c1 E- Jeremy S. Anderson9 W; a7 f% E0 | e4 `' t
2 a [6 N% H6 K$ M0 I6 p% z1 B( {One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
7 `; Y1 R3 [8 M. r- Elbert Hubbard5 j4 G, `; N& ]' @1 k6 }
% P. u* l- G: V; ^% qAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
, O) R$ ^1 y" s" {5 r- David Thornburg
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, D$ _; N8 V* [- D% U9 [) TThose 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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Save early, save often.+ N/ I" [) A/ Q
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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% r7 g' @& J& ?1 i$ cBuild early and build often.) x& n. ?# u7 k! ~8 u- A
- Proprietary developer adage; \3 M! M& e9 @7 X
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Release early and release often.
. b2 J3 \' Q* ?$ E- Open source developer adage
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; T6 X, e2 R2 Y' f3 v+ U9 ZWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
( e4 [1 d9 r8 I E) y4 |" m- Carl Sagan, Y s9 a) r1 _) F) w
+ ?# Z8 Q6 t0 }7 g5 l6 _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.
6 E: D" h" ?3 f6 V1 W" h" E* c- Anonymous
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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.1 u* B, d* i/ B8 O6 h
- Margaret Thatcher
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x# A6 n& J/ ]3 P% n3 H) e+ Z RThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
7 R$ L- Z' Y+ J. o9 g1 S6 x- Jerry Olson G. O: W" l: t4 w2 {* ~
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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.
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A: w# ?& w8 {' f+ V y; o' sEverything that can be invented has been invented.
+ [$ W8 I( S' z) j. V- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT0 b0 P+ I; k' X% W1 A
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969% C# g7 \6 u- Y
' a$ k. E" K; B- h* lAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
% n B. P4 N9 }6 j$ }& }: ?- Arthur C. Clarke. ~% W& ?% s6 ^% d- \+ I
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.! Y) x2 r1 T$ B3 {$ l
- Gregory Benford
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.# \& |0 R8 W* V
- Anonymous. L3 d( c! j$ F) p
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
5 J/ P# H4 J# e% I6 M- Alan J. Perlis" T: F8 w% ]( V) Z* ?6 b& @( M3 i! T
7 D1 S/ Y9 a. cI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- k! E2 ~1 L% y4 Q; l2 n+ I- Thomas Edison
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6 W, L/ F# d/ m* ^4 s. n% ?5 G" QGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
! l! D( {7 v$ C0 \& B' p$ o( n- 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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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.1 B0 e7 I3 e7 x" F* \
- Senator Bob Dole
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) u' J: l( p' w8 cComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.2 [# T* ~, D6 n# V" ?
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.7 w) G4 X! t3 r4 ?- b. \; b* G' i
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy2 l) c! S' k M7 W
" [/ x+ M0 e1 T- ^3 `Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
A# h. l2 p$ W2 f' B9 T. S- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
9 V f( k% W5 A& E% ?3 M3 N0 |- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos9 D2 m* [! t& O8 `7 f# b
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How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?0 u0 d8 E% U$ {3 M; i1 P. {
- Al Gore on Y2K0 N) s, a# g% V* u9 ~
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
# q/ Z; i3 q3 L- Sydney Brenner in 19277 m1 W L8 E4 T6 e7 E7 N7 C
: U; X/ ]* `4 H3 Z; @% oThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
8 D( q* E5 {+ ~' C- Linus Torvalds
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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.4 X6 A A1 L" x9 n
- Linus Torvalds
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0 A7 [6 B0 C! f3 c0 r: g/ K3 bWindows is just DOS in drag.( f, @5 o1 _" i
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
& w2 @" i4 v& H/ J- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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