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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.; I, v) h* |) O3 H- k* A
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum" z) z1 i1 s2 [# q% J6 p: {
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?! P' Z/ N/ u" b z! a, ?
- T.S. Elliot
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4 ~& c8 p% n* c0 B' n7 \$ u1 Q640K ought to be enough for anybody.
! x) p: h* y8 h9 n7 h+ g- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981, Q+ { N7 V9 Y' G6 v! f; S
2 C {* V+ a8 c! f7 {' zThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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D$ _: E! t. T, { i0 X# a& @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.
- p. H& q0 @8 T. h' ^' q- 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.
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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.# ?- V" ^2 p& u) o" t4 w& M
- Andy Rooney
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
* r2 y- A# ~. d2 P0 j- Richard Power5 P9 z! K! e( E* C6 H5 N
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.; J! L, `. a) V' T) O9 V" o+ q
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
1 `' D- ~4 s2 {& e9 `1 B2 V+ T% k- 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.' x0 z6 v c: j- e) d, Y
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! o7 ]' b' D9 W' ?If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.1 i J# B$ ?( t- `6 T- {
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric' y7 |3 @8 q, {, }* O
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At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.' ]/ B& E% H1 [
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; E% t; Q! ^3 m6 w5 XThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.) d: g0 Z2 ]- B( y9 m
- 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.
; T% b5 Y: _# Y% g9 T- Elbert Hubbard4 b' M, E* i4 L/ Y8 k& C9 q
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
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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.5 z: B, C. a: w7 N3 p9 V1 z8 b
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4 _8 b" o. M" Y3 F8 @ fSave early, save often.
6 M6 d6 Q2 Y+ x$ i$ @5 q- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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/ @& z' o& `& {0 `; |1 JBuild early and build often.
) E, y9 {5 {" }- Proprietary developer adage
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% ?/ P5 C; s9 g, t0 [/ KRelease early and release often.6 K" I2 i3 c) \# C$ O9 R
- Open source developer adage
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% q+ v+ P- `+ B; y6 W9 N" j4 B6 TWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
! j2 ^8 A6 _! ?7 `6 ?- Carl Sagan* x; |/ i9 f) S
% Q/ c! f0 `+ t6 g- W# iIf 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 H8 k% x3 Y. Z" L3 H( G
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' q/ ]* X8 b6 F3 JThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them. y: z$ c. ?+ S# V" m6 Q# Z
- Margaret Thatcher
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
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3 @4 x; m: W. R; K+ OThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.; V8 s7 M( Q- S- f) k, J; C
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.+ z, s( l9 F$ z) K: _
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 T7 D7 K |/ C# T
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- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969. d( M$ K" l, U( D2 t
" T0 b) x C* p: ~! TAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.2 z; r; r1 f8 _3 f& y( `
- Arthur C. Clarke
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5 V* N( B# _; }5 `" U# G- bAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
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, M; l& U5 _3 a( JNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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1 w4 j- }; x, s8 {A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.- ~$ I8 z. W! \' z U! L& l. B
- Alan J. Perlis
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
* J V) X- L; P- 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.( j' s5 d% 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 _* U& ~' h" m% I" q: _5 E! c( g
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
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* L( K* M" [% _% M5 w8 j9 W/ ~, YComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons." \* v) b% e- R8 c$ T$ V9 y+ k5 x
- Popular Mechanics, 19496 l# D7 H% Y; d
8 [3 F* u2 n& B% K/ [. s6 _1 P5 J3 A From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
- ], d# `+ `9 q& ~- w) R) {- S- Z- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy: D9 I( \+ _& S l5 x2 O
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Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes. ~4 G$ ?7 H0 k7 X% i& k
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive." N% L' I; n, ~4 G6 O2 {
- 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?6 ]4 m% y" r# ]$ q- U( `9 i5 d7 Z! d
- Al Gore on Y2K
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/ ]+ B) q7 z, U/ U' A1 `( J6 L) dThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.4 [5 o- r0 c) C3 T# n3 Q
- Sydney Brenner in 19271 X- p$ w. v( y7 y% k9 n' S( e) i
7 F" r! y) T$ \- z- y% s" m( KThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.! e6 F5 }' x8 m8 z5 r
- Linus Torvalds( \) b4 ]6 C& l
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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./ W S3 I: p: A5 ~
- Linus Torvalds' S" S+ C: F' `! J" P
0 P$ o I* m7 ]* lWindows is just DOS in drag.
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) p2 R9 `9 g q6 g8 X2 g3 GThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.: k! m8 _, \' @! S8 V
- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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