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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
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& Z& d0 S2 a' G: N) lWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
1 ` G8 {) `3 n6 w2 U7 K- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody., t4 P) g2 e- z# z
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 19818 D3 c3 |& M8 s! T3 p3 h- H
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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0 N# ] }( [+ `5 a0 }3 uThere 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.
o* u$ c4 T% l# x- 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.
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; l7 m, o' d6 p* }: F. ~- s/ JFor 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.
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
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I 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.
' K* d9 o) T0 h* d2 d8 h, d- Scott Adams
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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.9 w8 a3 k" d4 e
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* T5 {. O0 V& ?/ DIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.+ A* W4 h3 e. x0 \3 M" S, F( T
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; h& K9 [+ R# g( _The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
1 K, j( U0 @/ b+ M, x" o4 S- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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?2 H' B+ g! |7 x$ u7 ~3 l2 _% b, ^At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.0 r5 } m' S4 ~, i
- Anonymous
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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.! _3 g8 |% |9 Z" u( T, l/ M! h
- Elbert Hubbard
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8 \! c/ a" u; n) Z3 Q9 pAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be. `* y( Q$ k# V8 n% p: }4 O
- David Thornburg3 x* _' V/ a- {! ]" I
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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.
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1 `8 _' f4 V% r- \Save early, save often.
, y s$ S0 J5 Q7 _! R7 Z5 h- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often.
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/ [3 s7 h0 l% S& V5 V4 cRelease early and release often.4 d+ q& t. Z5 V# Y4 d. C) i% q
- Open source developer adage% t7 M2 D4 g+ _) H$ h" I: C4 F
+ v: p) _" r# E4 L1 N# QWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.. j5 ?9 O, ]; V# O$ M' A6 D: H
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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.
9 d8 d8 D. a/ W2 @6 @- Margaret Thatcher
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.* R% I( K8 {" ^: T8 |+ ~
- Jerry Olson3 P3 Q3 w: a5 Q: ?( n7 r6 E" L. Q
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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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7 ^+ W. \4 R, b( L7 ]2 jEverything that can be invented has been invented.
- G. C% [4 |& E, [ Y" q9 M- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
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& m( e6 F( p& M% l1 g" c+ JAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
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% v! ^/ M% e( ?3 \4 ~/ CNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.+ `0 k6 ?% r k$ N& s7 R7 S: n( q
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3 B4 E: V1 y. P6 v9 e' fA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.) `# R# {6 X3 q \
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5 R$ A3 @+ Q4 ?- ?8 e- XI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
' m9 b! k% O' C. L& B8 a- Thomas Edison. x" g# k' ?; L& |( K" ~% X
9 ]& j" Y, o- Q! [- _ n# \Get your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.; Q5 X4 D& n4 K+ Q1 L, I" }2 R
- 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# v, H* e5 d# |1 `- K% M' H
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net." _& _4 r1 x; [" _- F! p% w9 O
- Senator Bob Dole+ |- H: N' E/ _! e
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: n9 z7 ]- ]# V- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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, L6 s, p* L* n# v3 E) u" J5 u From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.+ v% f0 F8 k" h+ o
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy. M- n; _! Z( w
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Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.2 y w. B5 x2 J6 k3 f3 P" v; t, S* W( |
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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9 n4 b0 L6 c: D/ oAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.$ }4 X( C3 h8 J6 K8 }
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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1 h& s. L6 r8 e4 T6 UHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
& F- H# e6 I+ R, V5 B" w. T/ j- Al Gore on Y2K
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. i% A4 J8 Y6 c0 }The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.2 i; e( c: N9 O8 d
- Sydney Brenner in 19273 _1 Z; ?2 I( ^! f
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The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it. o, O- u5 i# l5 E$ `
- Linus Torvalds
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) I$ o8 _( ]0 x2 E) W8 U7 RTo 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.5 M6 [+ ^" }3 B: c: n
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2 b! @; t4 t/ {: \# uWindows is just DOS in drag.
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: @2 ], A7 g! E3 G: |4 ~There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.5 A/ \5 A0 i' \+ Y# Y, d* r3 r/ T" R+ W
- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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