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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from./ I( v9 h' R8 C; a7 w
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum! R* \, g! b. h% M" Q' i' n
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.. h6 p4 A! ` ~/ G7 p* b8 ?
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981& \1 e7 s3 O5 C+ |, H3 U& d
1 Y8 O/ O4 C {7 M3 gThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.& H" d k& ^% t# y
- B. F. Skinner: z. {5 W9 ]7 ]' B& y
6 m; k8 _$ j( }# A2 [0 S3 }8 L4 wThere 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.
4 C, `. d+ c4 E( n- 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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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.
9 i. s8 m6 V& ?0 S4 j7 o- Anonymous
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1 T8 p/ i% z/ VComputers 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.% t' ^- t0 J2 C4 K6 S' A
- Andy Rooney# m. [- A. @! y2 @9 v( V6 C$ V. O
' y& F- U8 X0 n* G% |In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.* Z- m9 ]" [+ r/ j- @
- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.' e3 X% _; m: D) {- Y
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943+ M- K1 U/ G A' O; B
0 x( ~& n( n. {# C$ _0 ~If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
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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.
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9 v b( c! A- a5 dIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
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/ J8 |6 C! X8 O: t; k* `) x+ |The Internet is the Viagra of big business.9 \& }. y( `5 t i6 m% }1 R
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric4 I" _" | H- e0 i8 m; D
j+ d a& f5 MAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.4 @- A6 Q) Z8 R" v" M x
- Anonymous2 Z1 q9 a C0 O/ N2 P
) |1 P& n7 w) k r" {% J5 Y0 @There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.! \& Z7 C, Z* A7 C
- Jeremy S. Anderson
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4 g* ~( J1 o5 T WOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
5 D, f( k _2 a S# N7 [2 P$ b- Elbert Hubbard5 { X% c8 q0 e0 J
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.+ r2 Z9 [% h& |7 x9 @4 K
- 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.% S) V2 B' s) C
- Anonymous
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Save early, save often.! U5 r( z( q1 t/ X2 W! l7 e
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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^, C8 J) b- D# l/ J# mBuild early and build often.4 T- Z2 G: P. l& J, b1 f
- Proprietary developer adage
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6 S* |4 C% p/ p# [$ m1 ^3 r* o! {4 gRelease early and release often.- @! u0 ^7 D+ H" i8 V G
- Open source developer adage
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# `! w d* F4 o; l" w' ]8 QWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
$ F0 R- w7 _9 [- Carl Sagan
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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.! v7 S& t* @" P; v
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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.
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; k! N3 D% o. d/ |* dThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.& R* o) Z O1 u e/ k
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( S: z. \ s+ e5 X, W5 a/ gThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.
- ~( p4 I/ k. c; |7 d- Porterfield
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
( O0 c: k, @1 M: C* A6 L- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT8 H: k2 {7 A( F$ s
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.4 A- x. @; T0 S- ~: {
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
4 Y# i$ D4 z' p, \- Gregory Benford
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.0 O4 Q7 y; B" p& G- @3 k
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.4 u' e" ]$ m3 \ v
- Alan J. Perlis) H. R! g( f' n. p) D" V4 B$ R
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.6 F4 R, n4 w- f9 w
- Thomas Edison
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S1 s2 [6 v& @, f* W" [ \4 BGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
6 G0 \* h& B- {- o- X4 ?- 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: x- S) i6 V; U) ^
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.0 N; {! e& r, g
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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( F2 B' H: B' A1 J. x From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
- m3 X, U* R+ F+ k+ w. @' }1 R, h- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy/ J* s9 M5 @* W3 S: } X: |% } n
0 V- ~* y) @1 H; I. Y1 ]; ^Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
9 B3 I8 C9 X j. t0 l- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
# r) r6 r; c7 @' ~- 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?
+ B+ U2 v8 R; Y+ u# i# J- Al Gore on Y2K/ l" d1 g% ~- W6 Y+ [/ p
* b+ W+ W% S+ Z2 }: qThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
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) ~) \: f- v, ?) RThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.3 }! p0 ^0 w0 g
- Linus Torvalds
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% Y( \6 N1 {3 e5 J& E! _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.* i* x. n4 N" h7 C5 g b6 y
- Linus Torvalds
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3 X, u; d2 s7 K$ k7 J: fWindows is just DOS in drag.
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! ^! {! ]. z, J2 W5 V; sThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.8 e% `$ W+ ]$ p
- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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