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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.* Q* C7 }9 L6 ~8 ?9 t/ Z% a
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?3 |" B! A* X' P# ^1 {" Z" ^) \
- T.S. Elliot& k; O! s% [+ V
, a1 R. ^0 q( U0 P% x640K ought to be enough for anybody.
* g9 t! Y- A' V( M; h! b# o- 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.
' Z' |' {) _- f7 x: u' X/ p2 C- George Pompidou1 U+ Z7 |% q( e7 ^% q
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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.$ g8 P6 j% V9 X* U
- Anonymous
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+ S" n6 g9 m- Y! vFor 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.+ o, \8 a. c9 c _, B9 c6 Q, Z
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# U3 S C: E/ N8 ~4 PComputers 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.
9 }8 @' ]9 n+ l# y2 S- Andy Rooney4 F3 M* g$ E1 r7 Y% Y1 O5 J2 g
* J- o4 }9 o$ ]9 X/ EIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
6 x5 R- Z( ^" ?- Richard Power8 k6 ] J Y- R; ^
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
5 p t, x: P3 x3 x- l- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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- @# x3 m: Z% I3 y4 iIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.1 A* v% ], ~% z- q0 z5 \
- Scott Adams& V9 U8 l3 \8 L+ o% P, g) p
6 K5 X8 m7 ~7 i& }' KIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.0 Y+ p; h% y0 x1 A5 A
- Anonymous
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1 L+ Q. d! u3 {* [6 _If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.) @$ Y" t |1 J
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric( D; I h1 l# O. t# G
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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./ [1 Y! d5 f! l! F, T, ^: w
- Jeremy S. Anderson
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
) V c5 J& z% ]( X4 T- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
1 d2 n4 _; r" P- David Thornburg
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& B9 R9 W1 v! e2 n9 ^: {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.
$ J+ D5 J/ { |% ]- Anonymous
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% U7 Y7 n/ [6 _# vSave early, save often.
, u$ h5 F3 D. J/ ^: n+ v [( k' k, ~- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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) k, \' l5 }% S% H7 v" s+ @Build early and build often.
$ S) R. ~ U2 ?' n- Proprietary developer adage
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. @& y8 G; \- D g& F; {% p2 n( J3 g2 ZRelease early and release often.2 h5 \, n/ J) t6 H. B( t/ S/ k
- Open source developer adage: l! ^$ Z+ m+ A; K7 S
/ t. c+ H2 Y- J( t/ zWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
, M) f3 v( }" O/ h* D, ~- Carl Sagan, m" u, l: f _& Z T6 m* z
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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.& I5 m7 f) I6 p* M$ c
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3 q" N: ^4 S6 s# w4 {There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.* g" ~) ^% f2 o4 g2 t
- Margaret Thatcher
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p" {; [; g4 H$ B4 G' jThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
# ~/ _1 q _3 H1 Y2 ` C- 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.
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
" C3 _, l2 a0 s5 e8 w* Z- k- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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) ^2 x# T$ B& vGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT- _) ?5 @/ P( N$ b* d2 i- ^" d
- Fairchild Research and Development, 19694 |, i' u$ d( [5 }/ V6 n. M
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.) F( y& r( j3 g9 N2 v
- Arthur C. Clarke- t) O5 O6 i' O2 M3 [% c
/ K9 R0 k6 A. j( G: kAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.% x2 {: l6 L+ g
- Gregory Benford5 ^8 T8 _( |! V% k5 b
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.& R+ @0 v4 [7 s q' F) h/ L. T
- Alan J. Perlis
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.8 ]% P! o( j) H+ u3 O' F' [( Q
- Thomas Edison
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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.
]7 f$ I9 m8 v6 O7 f0 q- 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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8 K! ]8 s; A* z, j0 T! gThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.- J$ l. B9 l- M) m8 q; u
- Senator Bob Dole
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: K( e) N% v, K% h' m" N( iComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
- C4 k5 P, B, W1 i9 C! J- y- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
/ U# |- r6 G4 ~' a: f2 V0 ~- E8 y- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy0 B# J3 m3 p2 @- B2 h) _ ]
# f* \" K* `* |8 B, nTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.& {6 d2 {. I1 s
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
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* d) J* Y& Q" d6 ]0 jHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?, f5 c( D/ t8 v( h3 Z8 C
- Al Gore on Y2K
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.$ ]' ^* S+ G% _8 W3 M7 a
- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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r( z( ~7 z! z" h8 ^- c; ^2 p% mThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
6 u' H2 S0 Y/ ]# p& k- 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.) g1 C1 c+ y0 Z3 @# g
- Linus Torvalds
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Windows is just DOS in drag.
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
1 d2 Q/ y3 v: _) b* W V- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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