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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.8 H' K) v4 D' D5 [* W$ M( n; C
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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0 X; |* L. j9 _1 JWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?' I p; l0 }5 ?: ~9 B, R! D
- T.S. Elliot/ y9 T3 |' V# l& `' g; q8 h! E
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- 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.
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' o5 ~' w! O( m& _& a% @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.
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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.- u$ p5 F" _6 |: k
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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.2 g" Z% L }+ x' g# B L0 q |9 Q& n
- Richard Power9 f4 Y9 a) i- m6 C
# C, G; ]: w; T; QI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.2 q+ K0 Q" m) [/ C
- 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.
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2 N8 F [$ C4 U5 PIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.* V. U0 i( S; {6 k; F0 t
- Anonymous
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in. y, \, E: |5 p- I$ @$ S: `
- Bradley's Bromide
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
1 {; A C) t) d0 J$ a- 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.& Y f* g! ^, z% |' s
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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.
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." h8 X' I4 N* m3 m z9 `2 f0 Q$ ^9 T
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" C/ J5 q" G3 T+ U; P! p$ NAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
; \. `2 V+ v L: H6 l+ U8 g- David Thornburg6 w3 z( B' p: w
* f: W0 a) I" t1 \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. h$ R4 ?7 w( |. F7 @
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Save early, save often.
4 J1 y% |0 c0 @8 {) `5 i- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word: l( u! m" g1 X8 d) }6 \- F
* v6 w+ |; X/ V' @Build early and build often.
/ P2 Y- F6 K$ i- Proprietary developer adage
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, ` N9 S% A. H8 fRelease early and release often.
7 D J/ Q7 W& q, a" o% d- Open source developer adage
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2 `4 |; _5 e4 K' M8 B. a HWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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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.
h* G1 C* G k" L1 z6 X- Margaret Thatcher
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_3 x8 I' I( R* v% r% q) ^) }- NThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.. A7 l' w) i3 M
- 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.5 d5 F3 J3 k4 f! f+ f4 `
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.7 Z7 Z k+ n- R3 s" R9 d
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899, w! J3 N+ j/ u A# F4 `9 ^
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
! g2 l$ ~. C' r- w- Fairchild Research and Development, 19694 s- |3 ]0 N5 i- V
0 O$ u) s0 B& R4 ~Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
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7 R+ c Y" a& Y0 l hAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.' k+ n+ t$ t! k& [) }% n' M
- Gregory Benford
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2 ^4 J8 [, z1 c1 n$ ANever let a computer know you're in a hurry.5 ^& i& Z5 Y7 T! ~* N9 j. y, c& m
- Anonymous
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: O6 q6 C d) U4 ~A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.1 l6 d F2 y6 F9 G4 U# p
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% E2 _! @0 b( e& q" z& R. EI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.0 ~1 _$ x( c( C7 [$ p
- Thomas Edison
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4 d! k9 F$ C1 ?5 Y+ HGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.& ?+ e5 c2 q. }# d& K% 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
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
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0 y/ v* u G( Q) `7 UComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.' @0 B% ^$ i; Z' a( L8 L
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.# t, ]& u8 x3 S( k# f
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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3 c, H4 F e V6 j: X& Z& ^& KTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.& B9 U7 S/ S1 z F {, B
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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9 k' g( \4 [: {. UAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive./ o, {" \/ }- Y% e0 x: Z5 m, W
- 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?
1 J2 r* ~5 ~0 |$ ^- Al Gore on Y2K" T- S0 h! {, ^" Z
; t- v# _% M5 v, N8 J7 f. s9 YThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
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The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
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6 {/ Y+ W+ j7 HTo 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.
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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.
; C- T' x/ n7 S9 Q* D+ {! \, e$ V- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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