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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.6 ~5 ~ d" j* X0 C0 Y) v: U- b
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum/ e4 R3 G/ m7 w2 Q3 x- `& n& T
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
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/ z, C( _* z1 M$ @6 {8 |640K ought to be enough for anybody.
m% e* i) P: z: H- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 19813 C& C1 ]- @; F$ g
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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% f2 [" b1 K" ~$ aThere 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.
0 ?% t6 d& G; D- George Pompidou
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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.
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% b& k- |7 ^0 W K+ k. g. G& }5 S3 HFor 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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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. k( n; m$ U: T- v3 V
- Andy Rooney
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.; W; Y/ h" p1 O- |4 E. X- ]
- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.+ w% |; T. f2 u) ~" Z
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 19433 J. _% N: o# R
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.! f: n0 S. F; W1 S4 X4 {
- Scott Adams* ?8 L" F0 }' p2 Y" C6 g
. B W. d9 h- I$ G0 q; @9 n, AIn 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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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
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^% U8 {: ?0 n# _) s& KThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.0 N8 ] S6 G0 E0 l$ s% p8 K4 H
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric6 X* H' W( o/ J" V. q
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At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
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/ x% Y1 I# s. }6 m8 K" KThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.; X0 s+ Y' {% O( w: E
- 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.
, |2 Y: G# f0 Z% @) i t N- Elbert Hubbard
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, E/ N. c1 n8 E% A& S [2 o HAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
" W g* w7 n7 ?* \: K- David Thornburg
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) L( ?6 ~% c0 [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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# Z* i# I2 ^. |( sSave early, save often.6 k" N+ S- `: |( `
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word, B; o! | R2 L& z+ ?8 n: Q
( ~& f* ^( \1 K4 G. k- i% T! PBuild early and build often.
: W) ?1 B& }7 i# [: ^$ b- Proprietary developer adage
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1 d5 M5 s# Y) M5 URelease early and release often.
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, N9 A! d3 D% H) Z5 W0 i* T) X9 I+ Z' vWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.6 m! Z8 z Z3 Y7 D5 O/ k
- Carl Sagan# e3 v% _! e8 F( F) R1 b9 h# D
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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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, m. n+ D @& T; O+ t) _0 N4 AThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon. l. `3 \* d. q3 m( n2 C
- Jerry Olson. g9 t9 i6 s1 N: f' {4 d' H
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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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Everything that can be invented has been invented.9 U. O% Y) p5 b& b
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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. m3 W/ e5 f$ T; mGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
A `! Q2 m3 H: V3 M# P) I; }' [. S- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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) M: @5 _$ J5 i6 `7 c4 c$ k7 V; `6 `/ h0 FAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
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- Gregory Benford0 T' D3 v: C4 m. w) @" M
0 K) K5 M8 R8 d+ GNever 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.
' J% z n- n! w9 Q" ^" H+ R- Alan J. Perlis
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* C2 l n8 H. |I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
4 b( J3 K2 s/ H9 [# r- Thomas Edison
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" R) e3 T1 X, s& W: f9 H8 aGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
3 Z3 y6 t1 a- Y$ h- 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) t. u# j) R5 P& P
& [; e/ z9 r9 A+ {8 S/ O( @& bThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.# S( i, Z. g8 o2 Y7 f' Z$ {) q
- Senator Bob Dole
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- Popular Mechanics, 19494 y- {) r$ D$ N2 _& E8 B
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.2 j9 z: o* N$ e0 q0 X5 p
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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0 Z$ ~$ u9 H: Y8 N& m# XTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes." x7 d" g& t k \- {
- Andrew Heller, IBM& |4 l* F' N$ M% b% J; S
6 Z# ^/ e2 C) a2 s& z% hAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
; Y! \* H) j. J& F9 ~( F- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos8 {* b1 G- o# D+ j
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How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?& c' @) O/ }+ j+ n- p- X4 U
- Al Gore on Y2K1 ?( ]' J- {8 T
1 S7 `) h/ A- t( D/ p1 K" |The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
6 \9 d& y. ]/ ]7 b4 A( X9 `- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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" Q* C; m1 g' x; [0 dThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.4 z: t( Q8 }- y: F1 D
- Linus Torvalds6 u( w1 T. x1 U6 ]; K! {8 b
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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.
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* N# i; F/ |- _9 gWindows is just DOS in drag.' {' @6 |. e2 E) g2 o; }. E, _
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.& I, t# |5 I: [( x7 \' m
- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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