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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
8 [0 I) Z3 v+ K$ Y- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
8 J* `( U& u- v' s+ H$ _- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
0 e9 [3 ]( n4 o4 t4 X& r- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981* V$ p( F0 C- B
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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' {, i$ @0 t1 P: E# XThere 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.& n- M. Z+ a0 M* |1 f# S
- 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.. r4 `8 L1 H, o+ h
- 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.
8 E7 B) n& ?! U5 j' B- 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.
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
/ I8 \. y- V5 p3 K9 j! L: ~, Y- Richard Power2 G8 w: d# _$ X2 {( a( o. T
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.2 ?7 P/ A! k K- _
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 19435 q; g. j: o0 O6 Z x
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
8 z0 U- |) o5 d' _+ b: l- Scott Adams5 {9 M" J) D. n) S- H, D3 D6 u
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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., p5 b# i( w& m$ u0 D
- Anonymous; f5 R9 `9 S- U5 x( j
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.. B4 L) W( P$ q- K7 @! K
- Bradley's Bromide: T* k o- C- g& A
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
. N7 V! T |% u p% R# V) T# U$ f- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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9 H3 K# C8 i$ s! \5 FAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.& O$ s7 _! y9 R% { y5 x
- Anonymous
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6 h3 W( |5 h1 j6 e, S; A- BThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.0 _* ~, P& k5 W5 |) \
- Elbert Hubbard5 M4 Q' c. q! G) d9 l
7 t6 `9 y0 ]' R+ O7 I. m# bAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
+ M; g! N- q5 I; S7 T& p- 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.( i: x! D- e& G) z
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" B) t* d4 \6 ?6 D& ^Save early, save often.( @ a8 ^$ P d1 V0 o. G$ L
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often.$ K( F4 o' Z. y/ h/ q" y
- Proprietary developer adage% c" O' ]5 Q9 v3 }
& r" o' v+ B b+ }Release early and release often./ |$ e& | N2 b8 c4 H& D
- Open source developer adage4 J5 J o5 v* U2 z; K8 P6 m! w. _
; C7 W8 H$ S, ]- O3 w' K, S& pWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.& C' w6 A+ `' [) d% m
- Carl Sagan: Y3 d$ _1 v& k" h8 s* G! f
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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.
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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.; R) K) a% g1 B# H. r
- Margaret Thatcher
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.# n) f( F( D; L9 \6 P' b/ w
- Jerry Olson4 i6 Q& W" ]4 s5 [: v3 G7 T5 }: b
Q8 K0 C u- X: q8 rThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.
3 \5 n# H* i! J" E& `6 M- Porterfield
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- z. m) z6 i9 `4 R- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899% ]" L; @$ V6 S, p2 _$ w
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT! G( m( C! I z- g) x, G
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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- Q( N. Q( L0 I0 zAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.- ^+ w& b) W: d' Z
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
/ K' L# S; L0 G8 k3 O2 O }- Gregory Benford
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.2 R/ R6 P8 P) _' K3 m7 f
- Anonymous
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?- S; f& `7 p3 F7 @A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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# k% q+ U# P8 r' m3 Y; @I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
6 b8 S n; i/ [& H1 Q" s/ r' L. |- Thomas Edison
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' i" l5 v- `; e" zGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
+ _5 w1 Y* e& e6 C8 M6 s- K- 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' @( L# V. O. `6 T
3 G4 w V) N d* U7 R* HThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.2 @, v5 w4 H6 `9 p% n# m
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.5 u' \. Y- G. B" q! Y; u, b4 F
- Popular Mechanics, 1949$ R+ e! k+ W) E2 y0 F6 D
1 y, |3 O y( C2 E4 P' ? From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
+ u7 E9 g# j' @- X1 l- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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+ A+ r1 ?: w n0 d; G1 n( TTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
4 N7 h/ K) ]# W: W1 ?- Andrew Heller, IBM
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5 g. h8 N! n' M/ \6 D5 m, mAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.) P8 l! ?' e# P) t: G
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos8 F8 B& G" ^2 H4 P, I
2 ?6 X( ^6 S% w4 y3 S* G6 THow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?2 a& w% J. U% |& ~
- Al Gore on Y2K
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
8 j8 c/ v/ ^4 ~2 u3 k0 h/ ?* o- 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.7 \( ^* o: {' Y$ c* c0 G
- Linus Torvalds; [7 Z: N0 h, e0 @; o- N, g; o
! F5 c7 }3 E* C$ v5 U" TTo 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.- b4 e3 t R! l6 A6 X
- Linus Torvalds
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Windows is just DOS in drag.
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" m E5 U- z" P2 N# p8 TThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
3 v5 |1 L7 H9 W1 s2 S! h+ M" `5 l- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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