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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
& \ l w. R) {; h6 ~- Andrew S. Tannenbaum L3 u3 j( ]4 I
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
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2 j( l3 Y7 }. J1 RThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
) h& y% S0 q6 K8 k+ w- B. F. Skinner
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3 w% g# K& P/ G! h+ ]3 b. qThere 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.
`! j+ y# m' R q! e- 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.2 [$ x: C" s$ _2 O5 c$ V
- Anonymous- [6 _9 J( p# Y+ @7 g
- q" U4 [- Z n4 yFor 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.* n' d! @* @9 F% u- S* ^
- Andy Rooney
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers." r: f; n- p$ M5 N' u
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" p: \6 P1 a) w3 k# l4 ~+ tI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
! ^0 _8 w, @/ P6 E' H9 t- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 19435 f/ R' y8 w# m0 k k& V N
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
( c+ D5 H4 U7 j* j! |" n. ?3 C# Y- Scott Adams% @ V/ V# v5 S, V1 |* p$ m
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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.- o6 t& z" j, Z* |* ^8 W
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.6 s0 i+ F8 V2 U
- Bradley's Bromide
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$ r. l* p' ~2 K) ~( aThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
! T: v* O; Y3 k7 }- I# k E- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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2 @- V6 P; {0 D ]: v: I; JAt 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.
* q Y* C$ o! H$ }/ O- Jeremy S. Anderson4 Z- c6 _, @8 ~2 Q9 L. A
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
% c! C( ~; l; \" ?) }- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.. ] s% B) w9 q' E' x2 y2 _
- David Thornburg
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& k8 w* o5 c5 j J. JThose 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. f; x4 m. P( \
- Anonymous
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. t! J- \9 h9 }0 U/ v1 p2 _8 ^1 SSave early, save often.
- x# ~ G2 y0 W- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often.7 P7 [8 @) y9 Z: G* P* W
- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often.
% h. C9 r2 f" M* K$ H- Open source developer adage
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
: u) z3 `. z& o- Carl Sagan0 t9 E$ b( x% |7 U7 m
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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.5 I! O/ D3 G! w& i6 ^
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! y z7 l+ u' yThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
' v& b y! X; \# y- t6 n- Margaret Thatcher
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! ^9 F' q. W, b/ y' LThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
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0 p* W ~) L! ?4 ~# n6 C# fThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.
9 W) D# X: C7 T5 S% c3 O- Porterfield
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
; S. ]& \: s- F% q- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899& u* F4 @. {* q g0 s
' }& g9 w5 V7 jGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
0 `/ M7 ]( I& I" }- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
+ d* b$ g0 T8 q/ v. c( U/ T% c- Arthur C. Clarke1 J' @$ ~0 Z G3 x- j/ K9 m
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
3 q3 |; T9 ] Q7 y- Gregory Benford* Z0 \% y% K" x C1 o4 r& C6 ]
! s! I; m4 ?5 S% z# F( yNever 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.
% }+ _# `+ k. G" Z2 Q' B- Alan J. Perlis
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7 l" d8 n0 @4 X1 Z' FI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.2 y0 O, k% q/ v% w* G4 v
- Thomas Edison; V4 h7 x( o. ?* f. E
3 n: v6 w) H$ ZGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
9 l" E6 D! b" T5 W4 e! A- }9 O5 f- 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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. [: R- Q6 G8 T! J( y6 K6 DThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.+ L+ I O+ P) P/ L* e- w6 `+ v& B2 C
- Senator Bob Dole
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H8 N- g* f4 A I" b% ?Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
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' y6 i3 ]% i& Q7 k From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
" p' K: P L/ e C( v/ ]2 o3 |3 O- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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1 I0 q7 D. t9 ?' p5 E1 ITechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.4 [/ J7 b! Y9 P, N! Q0 R. B
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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4 T: K$ [( ~2 HHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?5 p3 W) u, v0 W' J6 l8 l
- Al Gore on Y2K
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+ x x& F2 G% m: UThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
# |! M! i9 b7 V% s- 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.
% l- P2 x2 j* Y U. e2 }: z. h- Linus Torvalds
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" M( y: ], g0 H' h% s; ITo 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.3 ?3 L) z8 i4 x/ w- |7 q$ K# T$ q# w
- Linus Torvalds" A _* D7 X! U' y
" @9 I' c! x+ wWindows is just DOS in drag.5 T& {/ w- \( x/ k5 B
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1 U& T8 w0 K- s, u4 FThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.7 G$ o i8 I3 N, Q" C: c; G9 u
- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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