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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.+ K. J( G! E+ e4 R5 S) r
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum D. t% s8 V) f4 R2 X" N& m; C& Y
1 e0 c8 e, P4 k5 l9 AWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?* z3 L- a( U1 z, L0 u$ A) K8 y O
- T.S. Elliot
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' ^- S; \' c6 c: F0 i X* _0 x640K ought to be enough for anybody.' w8 f# ^, _4 T% x
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 19817 U8 Z* { H/ w
$ i% \: C/ u, GThe 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.' i9 M3 ?# B/ F- i* k
- George Pompidou& O7 c' N" F4 u
) d) x4 ^ L1 \ b8 r2 Y# DTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
3 L* W L# k3 N6 [; J" x' j3 V- Anonymous/ }) y0 L1 m0 X. `- Z: D
$ c0 X/ l- v) z$ ~ xFor 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.
' j( h F( x. V- Anonymous
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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., l) R) D/ U$ a$ e. I# N1 C
- Andy Rooney3 P" }+ [5 t; G5 j
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
- H; c: d. w: b- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
$ r' E4 s1 l- `- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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: b. F% k5 @, F6 AIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
/ P$ X1 H$ U- m2 B' A) \- 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.; c J, d+ X2 F. F1 [! a0 d. B
- Anonymous8 g8 d/ u8 Y( G6 B( c
1 Z( O; \! D& ^5 @0 q( mIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
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3 |: @8 U9 H% d6 D0 EThe Internet is the Viagra of big business. i* s: y( t: ~; b
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric3 ^0 @) W$ `" m6 X0 g: f
& R" h; r. ~ w- UAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
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! E) y6 [1 x9 N. X7 e3 MThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.6 F" A2 P! g% U
- Jeremy S. Anderson3 P" [: q5 H! n1 i& F. I4 F
- P" i# r! J8 q! V+ u+ _One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
$ J8 e( }/ U5 N9 N- Elbert Hubbard( |& f- k X+ ]+ k0 Z# t3 f
3 I2 Z( I1 b% J D( a4 PAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
& R% t. h8 Y% d. o7 i, b- David Thornburg
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+ B6 O; Y* H6 p& mThose 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.! e1 m* R8 E& X
- Anonymous
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Save early, save often.2 G2 l& c: G: p$ z
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word, R+ U, c) y! T( L
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Build early and build often.
1 D h4 |) L( C1 L- Proprietary developer adage+ }. _3 |' I+ Q% E
, A- G" O1 ^: C. ^% q+ j) DRelease early and release often.
$ h" p0 A6 O; U* V2 d. N3 T- Open source developer adage% y" g# z. E. C9 }. M
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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.0 |! p& R% E8 ~( o1 Y4 \
- Carl Sagan
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( k& f6 j3 w: I! Q% `4 H6 ~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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" h1 Z( c$ U2 N; JThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.& q6 ]8 T h9 I9 H5 P
- Margaret Thatcher
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- w$ D2 J4 \$ [/ DThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
; ~. N5 g% x! J0 _1 A- Jerry Olson' g: P+ `0 L* D4 c
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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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Everything that can be invented has been invented.4 n F7 X) b, s) a2 i( O
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
6 h! t+ `8 B/ _% o4 V" |4 `- Fairchild Research and Development, 19690 N' A ^; [2 D) W! s
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
7 [# R+ j; |% p n- B, D- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.8 O0 }6 a+ w' X: @$ Y1 F" w
- Gregory Benford, c: ^( d+ \ H7 n( s% d
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- Anonymous6 D' J7 ` h6 q& c/ t
9 M4 o9 e, X H; J; j s5 |) }4 |A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
7 N5 n" [. W0 f# L0 |/ l/ C- Alan J. Perlis, w9 `& k; |) ~/ ~7 ?
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.& R- w3 ~1 U1 V) r: i* F3 ~# z
- Thomas Edison
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* }7 c1 C5 G6 q% c1 {, RGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
! U8 T9 C E3 S }' k( q- 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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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.: M9 ?( I2 G1 A) N/ R0 q: a
- Popular Mechanics, 19493 e3 Q; k5 b+ {0 f
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.5 X8 e( v' p2 V# R) N
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy5 p! d. B3 i3 f! D/ C$ `7 B
" C" x4 j# C. d0 rTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
- x$ t4 a, D5 m( u/ b$ ~- Andrew Heller, IBM
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7 N4 w& G. F( K. bAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.) V/ K. p" Z* t
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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# I L5 f7 {, @2 F" `; @& {+ `How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?8 M( q& Z7 b2 S! {* w2 o
- Al Gore on Y2K c1 F! x0 _/ j2 _; K0 E
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
; h6 C6 I8 }, Y$ u8 K3 O* J) C- Sydney Brenner in 1927: f, Z& S* ?, }
4 Y& [$ G! S. u( I# BThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.# _0 [9 m/ {: A" _" |$ r
- 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.3 Z4 W7 x* ]7 r! Y# O. x, o
- Linus Torvalds$ y4 r7 a* c {7 I
& |7 C( V- j& @) C9 uWindows is just DOS in drag./ G% o7 n3 @$ o
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% C3 _6 l2 U8 OThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.+ j% I/ g4 j0 j8 ]
- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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