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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.- w7 [! D& j- k$ B$ l5 m
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum/ P# z+ Z$ ^; D8 k( x) C, D8 j! l
6 q7 q4 U( E- d# N8 HWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
9 C0 |7 j0 p9 G/ q# t4 {% ]" ^- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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* P" n0 D6 h; p* \# ~The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.: N6 ^5 H z# u4 _. j7 O/ c- Q
- 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.
6 i& \ e( u/ _- George Pompidou, t* F. z9 \ ?) z. k4 U
* C% y0 A+ ^6 K2 M c; xTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
9 p" S: r7 }8 @) I- 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.+ _. s7 P8 d5 ~( f+ B
- Anonymous
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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.
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
1 Q# ?9 t$ D; m# v. b6 i- Richard Power4 D0 u+ o4 A# P" S4 {7 @
; _' w8 O, F' K0 e8 K" V) J8 sI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
; S2 N; [6 e) J$ r% r; r# L- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943/ t$ R8 @9 S4 T$ V* S1 k
9 o+ K/ L) Z5 I5 y3 ]+ i; AIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.# ^* m1 A1 h1 @$ H8 S
- Scott Adams# X8 ^% }% Z6 C! Z4 q1 v7 M; U
! _, ?# L4 {% {) r0 T Y& [In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.2 J0 D$ B6 G! y' N' P* i
- Anonymous
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) C/ Y! K; |5 U; o; ]/ {If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.! }& f6 `0 K4 s3 F" |1 Y# `
- Bradley's Bromide: V/ V, o. c: I$ X I
! m' Y. N8 r- `& M6 K& ~3 KThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.; O$ N7 r9 B3 S4 Q% B
- 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' j7 L6 b# ], O/ y7 a
- Anonymous" R/ x7 x; K) f( e" V: ^& n
9 M. S; U- W( j% ^6 [There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.% r0 D4 R: s" k" C) Y- b# D' s
- Jeremy S. Anderson# D8 t3 v0 y) e0 Q$ Y0 l# ^
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.9 C2 c0 a# _1 X& b- z0 Y
- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.. M& n9 h7 ^8 T1 G) b" f' p/ O
- 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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Save early, save often. N2 h |$ l% G9 n4 ~* \
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word3 Z. p$ o' o f7 }+ T
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Build early and build often.& a8 {; W* b$ V f V8 r9 \/ H
- Proprietary developer adage6 G' F! ?- V+ o0 r: ^
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Release early and release often.; u( E2 O, G1 ?- T% F
- Open source developer adage0 c4 @/ d, x' K' T c/ F+ v5 b
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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.4 @: f% G7 P" @" j2 I' t/ U8 `
- 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.
- A9 L2 r+ o" U, ^7 c6 p1 j- f- 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.. n. Q1 k0 N( E
- Margaret Thatcher5 F% N/ Q- S; J% K4 z& j) ~! Q
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon. O( K2 [ U* y* H
- Jerry Olson) ~. k; k2 z5 P" o7 q, X `
( |" R. W" ^+ C% y) j$ r2 AThe 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.
( H, h/ [2 L! |7 {- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 18999 G" {- ~( |% K' v- a" Z/ I, n+ J
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT: t: d4 A) H( I: c
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic./ r# u/ f* J# q
- Arthur C. Clarke6 m% |( _3 l0 O
; i2 b" ~& c' n- `. U kAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.! y0 E0 E2 k$ z4 j
- Gregory Benford8 r5 I/ `( Z N4 X* E
- E" M& |4 G* ?9 f" b4 BNever 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.
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
: {6 W" J- O- U- a* e- Thomas Edison4 o L+ c9 Y% ~1 h5 [" {9 ^1 L
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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.
3 U$ b0 C, g% A+ ~6 b- 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 developed2 ~3 t/ E- c3 R5 j
Z( g& ?; w5 {/ F7 d m# JThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.9 _# x4 z- X2 L
- 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.
) K6 o" T9 C: |9 U! I# s6 ^+ I- Popular Mechanics, 1949, o# d" i! @+ p- s# T9 J
" ?6 u7 x2 e8 l" z% U' K( h From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.3 H% y3 M0 q8 l% n+ e6 _8 Q) w6 z
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy1 ?, ]" A" x5 Z% E0 c
; l! |) G2 Y- G6 O$ `, _Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.% X4 U! N+ m: r+ V( V
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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; ?- C+ C2 z. K, lAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.8 m. D4 ^. D4 A+ [- W. t& z. A0 o
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos5 h3 Z5 @) J" o+ c
, v" e6 P5 w) o8 {$ O5 eHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft? J7 r g% b( T2 ?( ]9 W
- Al Gore on Y2K4 c$ o, C8 B/ m# n
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.& M) t ?& ?' _3 R( ?
- Sydney Brenner in 1927! k3 x! R7 g: ]: F* b0 M
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The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
& |# o8 e6 y. J) o+ \& @1 @3 t/ x- Linus Torvalds
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' u" b! p ~! @- F* W9 [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.! `9 v: b- F) \* J. s8 X/ i
- Linus Torvalds
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- m# N3 }4 Q2 j7 p; wWindows is just DOS in drag.
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6 C! g' U0 J0 j5 k2 P' O0 E8 ^There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
8 K- `0 F2 T8 ?1 E- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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