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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.6 z9 k1 G- V6 ~0 Y/ Z z9 ?
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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2 J+ l5 L; X x; EWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
* |. E2 q8 A) ~& H. I- T.S. Elliot, a$ V H2 B; O
* a: ?3 R9 ~0 ?7 P1 {: M8 Q7 I640K ought to be enough for anybody.
4 c. P: E8 Z- {8 g3 J b- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.- X4 X- a5 T: Z4 p
- 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.
) U: S, p/ @) Q- George Pompidou* F6 w3 b" x0 K/ J8 n+ Y
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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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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.
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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.
2 L, S8 E9 t/ t0 ?" c- Andy Rooney
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
3 b% h: \: N5 A8 M- |% \- Richard Power
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! ]+ A! [! x: y# }+ g# wI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.) K# ^6 H8 j, w! I6 t& L q
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 19431 _& Y- q3 x; n$ @( }( p
6 W, {. c, m" s5 u5 h* J; ^If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.0 W- e. S* K' b0 [ \
- Scott Adams4 ^4 _* x0 G, _* G& i) y
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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., \( u. u9 m, Z8 F
- Anonymous1 g/ c1 i) X& A) \. ?
- H) X( k/ z B7 _( G; e4 u# lIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.+ p8 J5 x8 v: i3 D& S2 H9 V
- Bradley's Bromide
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+ X1 i" D' |' ?8 W; f$ OThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.; l$ Y4 Z8 H2 O8 n8 l, G! P7 {
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric; J [3 V5 Z# E3 {" G) Z
( X4 g$ }. J- V# BAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
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. X# b! ?4 ?' X2 Q2 qThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
8 L" Y, i* X! z7 O& c( I2 f- Jeremy S. Anderson9 G0 c! G" d. E+ q `
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
. G1 _3 Y. }' N- A& v9 @- Elbert Hubbard5 T. f% }! y3 j' @8 D* ^
1 O" Q1 M6 x. rAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
& I9 a" p/ ?# D! p- David Thornburg, x0 j+ V M0 s$ t& F4 e }3 p G& ^
3 M6 `4 ~" E! y1 \4 I' QThose 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.2 i8 h7 x* c6 M& u* ]1 v; d$ U
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! h; Y$ S% e4 ]2 K4 A/ U9 a+ R. xSave early, save often.: }" r/ j% l0 I8 @- M
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often.
4 \1 m- p3 a4 Z6 y# |- Proprietary developer adage
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3 a w5 ?0 `5 p: m/ b6 {/ iRelease early and release often.2 Q9 f& J; j; Y. o 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.
& Y7 C0 Y' k! f5 b# E5 E0 N- Carl Sagan4 i6 s- p1 H. J7 A, L
- i* @& [6 Z9 f6 Z9 m3 jIf 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.% r2 R/ O% B& K2 i% J
- Anonymous
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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.' w% C0 Y5 ?5 x: @8 v. N8 ~. Z. \* k
- Margaret Thatcher
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7 o+ J: J$ m) w; Q N6 j7 {The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
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8 R- C) L% Q( ^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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! d$ r- {$ P3 b+ S; nEverything that can be invented has been invented.$ M6 R- ?0 `/ f/ a% f$ m4 y5 _/ }6 s
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899& `0 d, A: J* V
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
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) ^5 h5 b' y9 K9 bAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.( ^4 l, r3 f3 ?) |* z
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: c( z$ M5 N) j8 ?6 S3 B1 SAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced., c# q$ t6 H6 Z8 ^
- Gregory Benford
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.: A# j# x1 w& ~2 E: v8 l
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0 t0 _% B: |2 R' u5 f' FA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.+ a3 e, \5 l1 H9 ]8 l) p
- Alan J. Perlis; A8 }6 c- M( f
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.3 |* M* h& X \$ \+ A% m+ d
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U6 p6 V; k VGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
. o7 F8 |6 c- R# R }! g7 i0 C2 Q/ ^- 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+ e2 m* S7 B" h* ]' ]5 ~
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
: Y: Z) `3 y w: b: Q- Senator Bob Dole
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.+ k, T ?1 G3 p$ d
- Popular Mechanics, 19497 h7 [0 w# f( Y) m
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.2 `) `0 A) i# z# ?* Q* n8 e( e7 V
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy6 M! n$ J) y, y" j6 d: v, M) e0 \$ X
" `# u+ G2 f8 a; QTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
7 V4 g$ e0 J$ s1 n- Andrew Heller, IBM. Q; y# W9 h/ B2 L7 S
, G; u7 @- U4 @4 U. r4 ?" nAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
" u y1 j9 Q/ I" O5 \' H) c- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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5 f3 c0 f) i- k* }$ a# m! \4 H8 xHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?' V; Q+ ]7 R( l
- Al Gore on Y2K) C2 ?1 Z3 e# }/ q* p/ m9 |
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.2 u, f9 z7 x% |2 G8 ?+ F# t4 j3 ~
- Sydney Brenner in 19270 e$ D' s# }) x3 [: T( r" V0 h. M
$ h5 J9 P' c3 g, }/ Z, j& [) [The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.' t3 ~& J q$ J/ x
- Linus Torvalds
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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.1 ^$ [; E2 i$ Z! D, J7 }
- Linus Torvalds3 m$ A% l! [/ z8 }4 M/ E" b
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Windows is just DOS in drag.. e: [ \; @+ }
- Anonymous
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
4 j' ^/ N) N8 b) ]& b- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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