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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?2 R( R* T- |& v9 J
- T.S. Elliot
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& L' w |/ L: Y* \1 W640K ought to be enough for anybody.5 p, I6 @; e' O1 z
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 19814 \ ^: t) T P- V6 n
- c" j: }" p; W; C0 m7 P( I0 ~The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.3 K- c. y0 L3 q. [2 w @! q- D/ l: e: |
- B. F. Skinner. C( W# U' ?( D* I9 G3 C* I- w& T4 V
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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.# x2 M) O6 }. q( v0 L
- George Pompidou* i: Y0 P F6 R# 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.& \) Q% G$ z) O2 F5 M
- Anonymous. y& k( k( g; H$ {: o
+ b9 S, o) I4 b! NFor 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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4 r* t# O( P5 G: X) a6 C# YComputers 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.8 `+ r% q$ t& L4 B' P1 [% D
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% v& a- ~: w1 E" rIn 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.
. _ G! E2 _! G8 N$ K- 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.
- P7 q3 b: G+ e* o- 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.$ k' z4 W3 X& S: h
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& t6 z5 j( o5 \+ a% vIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.3 o2 j: v$ x7 I5 n; x& T; `. l
- Bradley's Bromide3 f( Q, r `0 e% g0 x3 d
- G1 Q" k; _ x; y2 ^The Internet is the Viagra of big business.8 ?! R5 D6 o) K y5 R
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric, u' f$ s$ j: M9 G, p: I+ D
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At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
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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.# Q0 g2 C6 V/ B5 U
- Jeremy S. Anderson
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0 o) e0 J9 Y( C- B% x$ eOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.8 z9 A O, c. R# Y* G s
- Elbert Hubbard
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3 [: R/ b( K, k2 W1 p: h' n2 m, TAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.6 i5 \, ?: m* K+ I& J# j
- David Thornburg6 ~' J+ L% y- x) k8 L
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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.0 O8 L$ q/ f: `, r3 `! j/ v! a: ]
- Anonymous
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4 U5 T" K- k5 V# W' M5 d6 l2 [, ySave early, save often.
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- N+ T/ g1 W' o1 `. [5 v& FBuild early and build often.' v: g1 W. B, b6 N" I$ r
- Proprietary developer adage
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1 A& P u+ u9 r' dRelease early and release often.. L* Z: X2 Y; r9 ^7 O/ G f
- 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.5 ~! N/ G8 a4 w+ q
- Carl Sagan) j1 ~2 b4 R' a( x
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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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7 i3 O) [. c6 t3 b( KThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them., v% w( ^# b) [; T U
- Margaret Thatcher( Q; I$ I& S$ G3 K& p
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.4 J8 K3 k. O+ }& o/ T
- Jerry Olson
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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.$ {" O" d6 t0 a4 [2 q1 N7 }; ~& K
- Porterfield
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
8 U, _+ _$ e9 L0 ^- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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8 D% D$ L6 f, Q8 p9 O- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
5 d3 {" o/ j* U7 V0 S, X9 u- Arthur C. Clarke6 ? S* E6 n/ O
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
5 J* L; Z( i7 F$ n) w9 x- Gregory Benford
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0 @4 h$ f& }6 u9 `+ E) ENever let a computer know you're in a hurry./ @6 B* N" |* V
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
; q; ^, G* s& {0 L/ X- Alan J. Perlis
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
: {- e4 S* d, I( c0 y: V- 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.
" @- z6 E2 P3 w3 H! }; y f; e, s- 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 developed6 k8 d; V9 G/ B
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
5 Q: S+ L! d m5 e7 e- Senator Bob Dole
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1 A5 q) K* j+ n: r8 ~+ }Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
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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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% u! q* [ B9 H; {, L1 WTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
4 s1 S, ], L$ p3 D& r4 N5 X- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
" |+ ^8 y, l! P# }) ^- 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?; X; b# B: c/ p/ r
- Al Gore on Y2K2 F6 H+ `" D: g" z+ K$ A0 t
" H* @4 | _) s1 Q: iThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.- i L8 K# p* d! A2 m! M
- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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! ?/ e2 e. t$ DThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
& t( Q7 i, l. l( }- Linus Torvalds
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, M y; x* s9 J1 k! `1 k( \7 UTo 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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4 C- E# n6 x& a1 WWindows is just DOS in drag.; j4 {2 u' u( W; K
- Anonymous
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1 J C4 b) A( G, bThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
. f" [; A+ ^. N3 C7 M W! Y7 e/ H- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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