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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
9 d) e( t5 B) u9 `- Andrew S. Tannenbaum: v& a& s0 E# Q) I
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?: W2 M; \- g7 U6 W0 n& W
- T.S. Elliot
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* E: x1 M w: V ^( A640K ought to be enough for anybody.
' q$ K* W/ v- o- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 19812 T, H# z7 ]% E! ?
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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.
& U; C u* v" L+ S# G2 T- George Pompidou, {- Z/ ~ F) y& _ r
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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.+ |& i: z( ?: `! }: a( v+ I, D+ {
- Anonymous# }2 A; Y- y7 {) ^ l! @
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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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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.+ y" ~3 q; H6 ?- L8 `* X& o( q. } q
- Andy Rooney* L, h4 e, g( z& x) d8 F4 T! K
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.( _0 l# i v: |9 s5 F; k8 ~% _1 B
- Richard Power
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: r+ q+ G# y, o% uI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done./ g& Q* {5 u7 W1 A6 d) @5 A
- Scott Adams; ^9 x9 p$ f' u7 m& h4 l3 e6 G& P
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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., m: M9 S( Z$ `1 J, r
- 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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m" @$ A" z. ^7 _The Internet is the Viagra of big business.4 O8 i: n2 _0 O* ?6 J) `
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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# N% D/ o: g! T. G) h# vAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.) T6 C7 ~/ t# g0 O' ?' ]) k
- Anonymous1 a4 [8 h+ R$ F) L4 i" Z
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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.
( M( ]7 k/ e$ X/ K7 o2 x" z" ~ p- Jeremy S. Anderson& T9 l# q2 b9 R! F' G' B, Y) p: k
2 } I5 R7 j: k# K: Z( X# q8 ^One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
& n3 p) T* s" b1 ~. O$ H3 K% T- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
. O6 p, z; I5 [0 x2 c- 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.( N% Q6 H% |2 N% m* @ G+ e
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Save early, save often.8 a+ n( U8 l* H$ V, N) o$ f, u
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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- H3 g5 L! f$ R) v% W. S4 K( iBuild early and build often.' `" j- S, k2 k
- Proprietary developer adage
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2 v' \& n- p' E$ U* g1 s( `0 [Release early and release often.
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% y$ m8 T4 {/ X( YWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.' v2 A0 L( _& ]
- Carl Sagan" T1 v: X3 t: l! F+ D
+ r- [& r8 a3 d9 Q+ J: u! P" S4 G" ~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 U- B& q3 `+ [
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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.( d) b! {; E) W# B% O9 W S
- Margaret Thatcher
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' u. |+ T, z0 zThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
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" G" d( ~% I2 F! Q; A0 B$ `+ |The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little., ^+ J. E, ?) q F' n' }
- Porterfield
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; E1 g8 v- D7 s( [Everything that can be invented has been invented.; d" W! g+ A8 [1 g# m
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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2 f% l+ {5 {7 }1 P/ rGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT9 ?, _1 }; a( I; T. m( j4 l6 f
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969) f' K. a+ v( U4 b+ ^; D
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.0 ]2 k. L7 }3 s- h, A) D
- Arthur C. Clarke
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7 o _ k* a) g% L9 _0 b* PAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.& G& s& J: A# s, a% Q- W( T
- Gregory Benford
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- ?7 f* I) T" \# BNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.6 u& L t4 Z9 r& z: H6 l
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
$ `; b* M b& Y% x! c- Alan J. Perlis
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! v6 M$ ^$ ]5 _( _5 F' s& k* [I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.- s6 }# D& L5 ~
- 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.
5 F- ?& P" d6 d( K% v0 |3 W- 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/ v0 a* B. b+ j* d, T
8 x9 v! z) \! H2 l: ^' TThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.2 A3 \% C1 O: F, c& T1 m* a2 b
- 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.4 z# t" |2 f1 r- G" Q, _
- Popular Mechanics, 1949. S" u" `4 _5 Z3 O
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.1 e& m4 R" J5 N
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy0 `. N# F. }# w5 n' I. }8 F' A: K
# \; Y0 ?/ Z1 K! z; I4 bTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
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$ P5 }0 i- ?4 o& z# m7 z }AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
1 O& }3 z# Z4 j; p- 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?: R, U- Q/ B2 K% a7 y
- Al Gore on Y2K7 \7 i( V, t1 S+ ^3 X" J
' M! ^' m6 O/ |. y! A* fThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
. G0 i& ~% u" w3 }- Sydney Brenner in 1927$ X0 w; R6 W( B8 ^: G9 j
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The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
6 P) f- V8 P( u- 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.; [; M. Q2 w' z6 j" @
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Windows is just DOS in drag.0 P" q, I9 d% P* Z' e. X
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' U) }; _9 c5 O. }There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
9 J& o' e( @( R5 a1 a9 r6 t( Z6 t6 l- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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