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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.* Z0 c- K+ N1 k O
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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( @: b# u( P; |- o% w; t3 ~Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
# A/ w* V8 [5 ?8 X# m* ~- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.& U# F* l/ p9 g: T2 @
- B. F. Skinner
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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.8 E6 w o' Z$ z+ l5 O
- George Pompidou" D& \6 K8 [. I4 }4 K( z
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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.% j8 l$ |5 @ C/ d0 F( u% {4 k* p
- 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.8 n9 u& a+ v4 W7 ~7 p1 F; k
- Anonymous" F# t/ _7 L5 h& L" l5 _2 r& l! `
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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.
5 f R# v7 b( t5 ^ S% L* ~$ i# u- Andy Rooney
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.# S. }# N- k' e9 J5 j
- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.* Z4 ]# _5 p! r4 U. c, D0 [% V
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 19434 T* n3 W# W( H x
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
( n3 s) E5 V$ C# j) T7 t) E- Scott Adams
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" `+ K" }; q* O9 ZIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.: O) K! T( u9 W
- Anonymous
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.* ]. w$ j7 O; M% k" t* y
- Bradley's Bromide9 W1 J" Z9 M' N$ k. }
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.2 ^9 U2 w8 h. U7 c' y
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.; a) R$ i* Y, p# R& J
- Anonymous
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' V: s3 c1 H6 N4 o3 yThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
% `; ]* g9 e( F7 v- 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.
: N" W: a, E7 ^8 I3 r$ ]- Elbert Hubbard9 D; j; v2 r! Q9 i
, G: d4 `# O- }0 n0 [: nAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
v3 l/ y9 s2 F& p& z. Y$ n3 O- David Thornburg3 A8 k$ m+ i2 [
; w5 |6 m- J, N/ H$ EThose 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., z# p r% z( N: R" {0 m2 s& S
- Anonymous- M: I5 f# |8 |# l5 ^. d
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Save early, save often.- `# s$ G$ ?. P* x. H- \: g8 \
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word- E4 P) Q8 n M3 v
. s8 Z/ G+ U& v9 E" DBuild early and build often.
1 L) C: _9 k6 t6 R) ~1 q1 ]- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often.
2 c" q* p% @1 W$ I" k1 V( [- Open source developer adage3 R9 o9 x- L1 K; j
7 C' z2 [" n" a, VWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.6 A2 g' ?; i. K' Q; s" `0 P
- 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.4 v3 h* B) G" U4 H
- Anonymous
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- Margaret Thatcher
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon., m: c1 X6 O! R6 i% D
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" m* b9 f8 }1 j2 G1 uThe 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.
{6 [$ g: m; l! [4 v4 Z. G- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899" @$ o0 F1 H6 X& s& V* j& A1 X/ y
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
Y- r( g4 \- c7 V8 \- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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* _) N9 I# T/ h) kAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
( d+ Z6 Y# o$ K, W/ {8 }# t6 g- Arthur C. Clarke
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& Y+ B4 o! F7 z" X" n2 }Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
2 H8 t8 M: u( G" b& ]" x- Gregory Benford
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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: A& c" ^6 v8 X5 ?. q4 tA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
: e* `& u! U6 c D( s( H! u- Alan J. Perlis
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
5 l2 N. y2 e( c+ Y: ^6 Q) y7 G- Thomas Edison, M, [6 @1 K3 r, g
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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.
& o5 n4 H" o0 m7 J! W2 o3 ?- 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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1 T; f# q. }, p. S: h" j; ]$ uThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.7 ]7 d( [5 \; P, b* n6 p0 }$ m$ L
- Senator Bob Dole9 ?7 U: B. r5 C( {7 @0 }
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.* S+ \; R! L, I! z5 _& T
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
% l2 E: K: y! ?# s' f2 p; r- 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., u- b8 L* g% i0 b( D
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
: }7 [- V0 b4 Y: a7 L' O1 y- 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 D0 d5 }* a |1 c$ m% I
- Al Gore on Y2K
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
) l( t4 c0 I f; K- 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.
; A K& e* g6 A+ T0 P9 ]# p; P- Linus Torvalds: r3 @2 I: e7 ~, X
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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.
- J& n; S! j4 K8 R- Linus Torvalds$ b9 m& F4 @* J/ L$ ?9 I
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- Anonymous
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1 G) q: ~1 Z' R0 W3 K3 ^0 {There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
4 ^- c, U1 t# D8 O, I4 R. F. L- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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