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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.9 W4 _# `. |; u2 P
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum( T; _! w! g m
, c$ y" K+ k. ~! h/ GWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?) j- ~9 h+ J" ]# ?, f
- T.S. Elliot
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% s* W+ I2 k z0 C; Z$ S640K ought to be enough for anybody.
i5 ?7 D, w: E7 ~- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 19813 J! I* h3 w4 D% P
7 E! E& }# Z) S- ~- BThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.0 }$ w1 Q, [( H) R
- B. F. Skinner
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- K3 r7 g$ u# s9 L, bThere 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 H: b. ^' \" e0 ^# \4 f
- George Pompidou
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, [" }! U; Y3 c7 B8 c1 a# c! iTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.9 I" M* r7 [+ j t
- Anonymous9 h) S! x- o# ^5 w7 I6 o
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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: @- ?" O- 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.
! A# t* J2 X6 g, _% b+ ^2 \5 C- Andy Rooney
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
5 l* ]2 W! q1 K( y7 S1 c- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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! O: ~) c% [& ~7 e8 vIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
2 j# \; ~" w' q! r- Scott Adams
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" X7 z+ c( x9 ?6 Q& VIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.' i, _- Y% s4 Y2 y, _& o* ?
- Anonymous
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4 M1 {* B$ B5 e" r: S7 S6 tIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
$ d5 X3 }% S( E6 |' |- Bradley's Bromide
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+ i) `( S( V0 ?) q F2 @ ~The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
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At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.6 J: n" I& w1 S7 N" s1 o
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* X, {. X( G' MThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
0 C( z. T6 G5 x ~, o- Jeremy S. Anderson, ]0 @! C% \+ I- W( l8 `1 ~
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.+ m; S9 M4 f. H \! ~
- Elbert Hubbard. }7 O: W8 X$ d! h" k1 G0 ?
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
- [1 |) {. Z3 g; G) @- David Thornburg, K0 j/ C, _7 u {; d% F
9 S9 M5 x0 X g+ E4 V; HThose 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.
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- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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! @# k6 y F8 z& j0 U; hBuild early and build often.
" g! {7 G8 L2 W) k0 t- Proprietary developer adage
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1 p5 z* E1 a9 u$ S1 u2 b$ a, qRelease early and release often.
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$ ^% L; q6 h! S9 xWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.% ^; h) B6 ~6 @
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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.
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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.
! f9 L; m' ]( C" [4 `1 U- Margaret Thatcher
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; ?4 c4 D+ q) J+ w$ i8 i2 Q( BThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.6 J+ P9 O3 Q7 s8 K1 g( k
- Jerry Olson0 o2 ?/ d& t* L2 C+ g" G7 r
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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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! U/ U% l: g; ?8 q! `Everything that can be invented has been invented.6 y% ? B" l+ i1 p8 D: y/ C
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.6 I% ^# J1 r- O" R! T2 s. d; @' G; S
- Arthur C. Clarke
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% l- ^ F- c: G4 d9 ~Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.$ z" q: i7 s! B1 F* Z
- Gregory Benford9 U r# H5 B: h. I
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.: B3 _$ o& D1 I. u' Z, D& R2 O
- Anonymous
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
/ }1 B" `" O6 I8 i% a* x+ t* e+ o- Alan J. Perlis6 z: h4 }$ B8 q( s
5 T% S4 Y$ ?* m7 S7 U8 e7 ]I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.) u0 M) Z$ g& s8 _8 k$ Z
- Thomas Edison
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' A2 O6 o8 { g1 A& oGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
: o" t: ^6 P( b/ L* K- 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.# t$ A" z5 X7 u# D6 G' ?1 I- b6 p4 S1 {
- Senator Bob Dole
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- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it., G E9 r3 l8 T" \( J# `+ K4 q
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.+ s) Z$ D, |9 K" q7 w
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
9 K! Y" I4 h( ?( i( l- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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+ u: G2 ?5 c) L) tHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
& B4 x% [# W3 {7 j/ Z. X- Sydney Brenner in 1927- F: h# `- I5 ^; }2 x# ?6 L
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The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
3 p% i0 ?3 v* L" A; v) m; M- Linus Torvalds
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- J5 P3 D: L; i- J6 dTo 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.- e2 \( D' X8 E3 y# P2 t' W
- Linus Torvalds8 E. [9 p& d/ D( |
$ w9 G8 z) ~" }Windows is just DOS in drag.% }- q" f G% ^5 W
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" S/ f/ [9 {& _There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.# {* }# M4 m" W
- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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