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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.! J! m& j( G& U0 k
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum+ G) `5 A" v Q2 H2 | v w
. d7 I3 \; [# r/ h: hWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?) U6 U( p5 u1 a4 n k5 U6 F
- T.S. Elliot
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* w3 } q, D! T9 v7 _: Z6 k640K ought to be enough for anybody.
9 h; i, Y7 }% k- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981; N% @+ W. w; {
' i) K; R( E9 }* R G) sThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
4 u9 z9 A' n$ u; q" ]7 k- B. F. Skinner
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% f7 h2 B, ^# N/ C- CThere 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.
5 |- {& H+ V% V/ x6 u; N0 q- George Pompidou
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5 X. E; L- w3 | e) j; Y+ |! qTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand./ z3 D0 g! K0 o: X$ I ~
- Anonymous9 \/ P f1 M5 w" m/ ?! W0 a# F& x% a5 C$ J
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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.4 d+ C/ E2 b2 ]; g
- 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.
* w% ^7 u; V$ h4 |1 E4 l- Andy Rooney
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& ~/ A; Y. S4 r* i. M0 U1 HIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
* i- n: Y X+ |- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
5 W7 [1 I* Y6 N: G- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943; ~( }# l' U# d$ q
/ p0 C& ~* s5 r, U, @; KIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.# H* ]7 ?. y+ c9 f
- 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.
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3 f; F+ Q1 @) T. @5 {. w7 \If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
) K t' Y3 w9 k" R$ j- Bradley's Bromide
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business." p0 t2 j/ Y2 k/ w) D
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric) @8 o W$ F/ G. C( j( g
3 R4 o! {7 Y( p, }1 e) W- s( m! eAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.( W: w) s0 u1 o" v6 p
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2 q' v/ U% h& t; E' [There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
' z" ~/ C9 D0 S+ N9 }' C- Jeremy S. Anderson7 A4 P( Y1 y' ^) R! D% F
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.0 }' W* _! P8 h, @' _2 d9 ^
- Elbert Hubbard7 K3 S$ [+ n0 d s( L& K
5 {' Q* g; G3 ^* D o1 @3 w0 bAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.; V% j5 e3 T3 i; X
- 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.
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" b. c& l7 X, V( t8 bSave early, save often.% r W8 ]8 {* x2 o
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often.
" w R2 ]8 X+ ^$ j( t, Q- Proprietary developer adage9 C8 v d% B2 A1 j, P$ l0 J; m* m
; g/ w) n5 q% `5 h( F& h4 [( RRelease early and release often.
( E5 ^! `1 G* R! O- Open source developer adage
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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.
2 c. `0 [0 {5 f9 f4 Y& t- Carl Sagan/ c. ^) ~: Y. o) Z* }5 d
' Y2 g! `* r& j7 s2 fIf 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.2 R/ E) m* R, |
- Margaret Thatcher2 |: I m; V a; K9 _: b& t
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
" B0 e7 \" q# n- Jerry Olson
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' @) B% e8 r8 d8 F% n$ n5 NThe 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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0 q, _7 ?* E3 @& Q6 B* g: q" wEverything that can be invented has been invented.
3 e, C3 A, r' r- a8 C- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 18991 w4 f6 n" ]! y. ^
1 o% w2 ]5 `6 S0 C- DGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
9 r! F( Y3 E! p+ L. b' o; o3 x- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.2 F. @, R& r( ~* X; ?" T5 ^$ v/ a
- Arthur C. Clarke
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/ p5 x0 C* K( J3 }/ U( p' QAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
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' |- v/ t- P% R% S! _Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
3 A) b. t* v" B) n% q- Alan J. Perlis3 y& _1 g! E' _+ T/ y: |3 O9 @
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.: _% C! @/ ]. \* ?1 @2 c0 x
- Thomas Edison4 ~7 d+ @3 D& t& x) C9 n( K9 V
; }; G9 k x Q0 m- X7 b4 G; mGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
. ~9 C0 ^3 e( G1 _ H9 a) ^- 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 developed4 v. N" b Q- d! L2 D& d/ n* Y
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.8 J( k1 Q; G7 k! D- I3 k
- Senator Bob Dole/ J1 z$ D- V6 t) A
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
2 w2 d, V" o: a' E8 S- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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6 ~5 x1 |/ U# e& B From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it. x; @, |! d m/ s* n4 w$ @
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy5 y1 n5 \$ e; S q2 e+ u
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Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
3 a6 O' f$ ^, Y2 D- Andrew Heller, IBM
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% N- `9 z ]3 c( v# {6 RAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
4 E6 o/ e7 k, N5 O7 ^. k# |- F- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos1 I, @& ~1 k8 h
5 ?8 R6 Z# z5 ]1 A- |How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
% R% O _ [0 M+ }- Al Gore on Y2K/ w' ?7 R! z0 j) d5 I
( n4 g' T3 Y: O) MThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.; h7 E% F5 o* I8 N. B8 Y+ B& h, E
- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
5 R3 b6 O. q* d: V6 Y7 C% T- Linus Torvalds' t' ?' U- o$ z% w
2 t7 R6 ?# P1 cTo 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.- Q, k7 f) R2 G1 k
- Linus Torvalds8 R: t' t: ~" Q5 K
/ B" y; r5 J* {' y% qWindows is just DOS in drag.# L8 I; H4 M1 V( Z9 e3 a
- Anonymous
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
/ @9 w, h3 h; X t0 D2 T5 t% l- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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