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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.' @: w3 b8 S$ ^, Y8 T$ q
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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1 n/ Z* N9 d9 ]& N$ p; ]Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
+ Q, p6 ]! L( `& T" e7 {/ c- T.S. Elliot; Q, K% ~! \4 t, P" `' s
( |0 i/ y2 n. O: ^6 B4 ^640K ought to be enough for anybody.
, W9 O. K. `' w* H. m( D- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.! a6 r* ~, V# I
- B. F. Skinner
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! Q: o! i" d7 T% \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.! Z" V2 Y {, r f g$ Z6 H- r. w7 g/ z
- George Pompidou
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9 O8 U5 [: F2 m. Q+ H3 ~( aTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
& j& q9 y+ n Z. ]' k, _- 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.
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2 \% B2 s6 \9 O, ]1 ~' y/ A. cComputers 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: X6 c" d/ U' f5 b- Andy Rooney! q. ^+ f+ M# n- Z! U7 T) _
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
1 M" |: K f! z a, A- Richard Power( t/ I1 \) z4 j1 W) x
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.8 T3 X: T3 L7 D! b" ~ v
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943- F# x, w* ]8 K9 M% X
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
+ F: p% v: U% u$ `5 o- Scott Adams. b5 L' a. N8 c$ }
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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.; Y. U2 @: I p& l
- Anonymous
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
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_/ K, z4 E$ bThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.; r" }/ t) N5 Q7 d0 b1 z
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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6 w# n# _; U" ]; h6 o# U/ ^At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.( R F, z. [' S4 A/ x1 v" d" ~3 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.
! w+ a# u3 x- D, I- K. O; S$ g& N- Jeremy S. Anderson
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- [% ?6 m' H3 i6 `9 w' ^- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.# C) h) B- p& ^: ^8 ~3 l; F6 [
- David Thornburg( M. z1 C# g5 W1 V) X4 s: Z
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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.
3 e9 }! c1 @! }8 ~: ?, Y- Anonymous
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Save early, save often.
' f% h4 M0 ]4 U% W6 U4 I- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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/ ]6 p% l9 A$ DBuild early and build often.
) R) l6 @, w- F) X% N3 T5 L- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often.
$ D7 k# T: J2 {, N6 L4 h/ T- Open source developer adage
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: j/ k7 q- ?4 V+ A# `- @We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
7 k, o& F5 ?+ e$ m- 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.
+ X2 n& u6 {; o2 Y1 V# k. D- l- Anonymous
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4 ]4 f) B, [& S, b+ b8 jThere 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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/ m5 v3 y& D* D6 ?; a4 m: f2 Y9 L/ pThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.. R/ y% H5 q" s1 S W1 H
- Jerry Olson9 V0 d W* {4 C# k# B3 f- T4 |: T8 x
; L" U5 C$ Z; x5 ]3 Q' f, w5 B3 mThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.( _ y C/ z9 q% Y$ l* e
- Porterfield
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0 o9 ^& Q' Y0 r$ NEverything that can be invented has been invented." }- m, f$ }$ u$ _
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT" {4 F1 s& |3 }* K8 [; h
- Fairchild Research and Development, 19694 a. m- W7 J0 w, f S
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic." x, V$ ~0 y1 m" m P" h9 h
- Arthur C. Clarke' q# @& h; i. ]" \
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
: I' @8 N, x: s+ V( f* P) K- Gregory Benford
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.) K3 d* Y0 ~* m& h1 t* |. L& m' S
- Anonymous
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.! d8 ~, n9 g* q! y8 c
- Alan J. Perlis/ X* I( B3 E" b
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- Thomas Edison
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Get your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
+ U/ A, X* n+ G- 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 developed6 L6 a: z) ^' e1 t
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
1 U3 O7 e3 o# d5 ~& K* v- Senator Bob Dole: N( r8 _4 Z* B
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.# R F! d/ `8 k" b- d
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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9 i" f$ ~# v. [: @% q, W From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.+ s( J8 N, ?8 L! q
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy* f* u% y" j/ y) K0 y
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Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
$ J/ {8 c3 m9 o+ ^9 M: [5 W+ s- Andrew Heller, IBM6 r5 e( n) o/ s5 x" N, j* Q
$ g5 k% @4 e8 KAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
( ]1 u* S; W: A( F- 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?! m4 n; C/ E* f1 g: q& c6 r
- Al Gore on Y2K0 [0 |8 h6 _4 W* {4 w+ p+ X
+ y$ S1 J$ `" C" s( MThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.3 [8 |4 \# y7 Y
- Sydney Brenner in 1927; w- O6 w5 g( B# _; R. y6 b2 a; b$ k
. u* @& M6 A3 T, M+ Z$ L; `The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.! N2 p, H. g* f4 B) X
- Linus Torvalds
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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.
. |: P2 A# w5 a( o; h8 H+ R: f- Linus Torvalds; i. R' m4 w% |. S' i: [8 t5 K
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- Anonymous
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
) Z5 R1 N' N) k" O W, a- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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