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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.4 r, q$ q. w1 f1 s1 f$ K
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum" L- H" G) C) h
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?4 I# }: T6 o6 q8 ~& p/ x
- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
7 y1 z0 q: A0 i- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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The 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.
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/ b P) [7 f' ]! J8 S( VTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.* d1 S7 j! \. a5 o# z# J
- Anonymous. U3 q4 {. Q, E& \
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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.0 R' o2 \* L |+ R) U; H
- Anonymous
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- ?* {( ?# U* K6 ` OComputers 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.
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.) h" @5 _" b. D, D) I5 d( b
- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers./ O+ u7 m* `- A$ n2 L/ [8 b) E
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943! O& m; Q% ?' \0 B8 s
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
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3 q4 @% a, B9 s) n; vIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.3 y* f/ s% |8 |9 E3 Z) S2 t
- Anonymous6 C( Y) F; K, h) }5 Z6 d8 a/ e0 b5 U$ i
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.& [3 K7 Z7 k6 M5 T9 ^/ g- T
- Bradley's Bromide
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; D2 L: A8 v. o! |! n$ fThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.7 ]% v# G# ?, b6 e7 S
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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1 j, b' c/ r' P8 D7 A- w4 g5 G+ ]1 XAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.& d6 D$ a6 s3 b$ P
- Anonymous
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There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
) `9 }6 o) g, j7 B. ~- 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.- M& I# x; t6 c9 S- a( t
- Elbert Hubbard5 N E5 r4 K! l" r) t( j, _
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.: [( y, j# V' L+ T4 |7 G# I0 e
- 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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' q- D* x) z' h PSave early, save often.- V" x* a! V( F
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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6 V# W* b% e: ZBuild early and build often.0 m- L: H! ?- j* A2 Y
- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often.5 g" X. M' a9 H* I/ e+ Y' H$ c
- Open source developer adage( L7 H" m- ~, e7 s. `0 H1 [- ?
5 R' @- V4 k4 R- g- s. fWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.9 U3 M q9 Z9 l
- 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.
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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.
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
' L6 u) ]1 Q' \- p0 s- Jerry Olson" i& Q& q) C! g, p- [
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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.2 T. k0 ]3 T6 @# Z
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' E3 C8 C# u3 t( H: T# c2 _ sEverything that can be invented has been invented., v6 E' i# ]4 ~8 {
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 18993 P9 ^) A: Y- }- E) t% |( G+ `
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT Q: ~6 \3 ]6 C# y( B
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969! J, c1 y) o9 Z: @2 Q
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
! {7 x% T/ {0 j3 k* g- Arthur C. Clarke
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6 P* Y5 x `% F/ G5 }( m8 |2 YAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
( e8 o7 e3 X/ X9 V- Gregory Benford
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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.0 j0 [- {0 D5 P+ b1 V0 e
- Alan J. Perlis0 _* O) p! b7 {* S# _6 h
: F- a3 w* G1 J# b! ^I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
! c# | m9 g$ h o- 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.1 n z! D. a, Z1 D) p
- 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+ e# H! |8 y, z% ]: Z
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.& n: S, e) V, _
- Senator Bob Dole" e) G3 N2 W; m1 y% s+ {! ~
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
- W$ y! {. E: F7 L0 [4 d' J- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
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Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
, H+ g% @5 V) L6 W- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
* }8 b/ c9 ~0 b0 j; M; q- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos }/ P& K! g0 @2 J; i
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How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?* o3 R/ P" G8 f3 m' i
- Al Gore on Y2K. Z5 H) ~5 q( C$ S
6 s. `; O: w O) O( Z4 Y* iThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.8 g6 u& ~( j! X: Y. ?3 ~* i
- 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.
! l6 U2 _( k8 n5 `" _, p7 ~- Linus Torvalds
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/ }2 U& e7 ?3 H3 P; A9 U' S( HTo 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.
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8 G3 _5 f+ `( w, WWindows is just DOS in drag.0 y9 B) i4 s" h
- Anonymous
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home., T% W1 J- f) g, C
- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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