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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.7 _! H4 Q! d- i, s
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum/ k7 v( A7 J# Y7 l( |- {/ ~
' v2 c2 H( ?- J: x* Q' [6 Z* LWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?. S3 R+ H" t9 H
- T.S. Elliot
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9 ]2 ]% M+ Y9 x3 h5 J6 T) q7 v/ J640K ought to be enough for anybody.
! _- ?% R9 {0 c. A+ }: K- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981$ w) k' |; l0 f" k' Z9 _
/ M3 K- j1 t# ]" P$ Z% R2 n# zThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.0 `! L% k* j, _
- B. F. Skinner$ O5 Q+ Q3 q2 ^; N6 g" Q5 O
: h7 p1 [8 r+ }" T8 l% }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.
. P S! D+ B, T5 C- George Pompidou8 H! o- ^% y$ A# 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.
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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.( B+ c6 _' n! Z/ N( t; k% r
- Anonymous9 j/ `0 P6 ]& q, Y% J2 L' H
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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.4 E. f2 I+ S0 A) ~% ?$ ^
- Andy Rooney3 b+ I- Y0 r9 p$ M3 T! n5 ?0 P- v5 w
" Q0 D0 l* y9 h- ~# YIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.1 F4 k, U8 I: T. R5 y
- Richard Power
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; o( V( h4 ?3 Y s# w9 h! ^! \I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.) K, {) q' v# d) c
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 19436 p9 p8 C W+ _* [- r( C! i
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
$ N1 ~# h) D. b/ Q- Scott Adams" Y. B8 Q* W( V4 i8 U' g
! b2 n1 @% I& @& a1 ]: E9 g. J( oIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.& K! Y& z( \/ J! [$ T2 F* P$ o3 u
- Anonymous
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.9 p9 Q, W/ i, e6 s) ^
- Bradley's Bromide
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.& _. v% }5 @# O" D8 `' f v
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric2 ?& l' h: Z) `
5 x" d: W# k& W9 s/ JAt 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.
# Z: f s4 |+ i7 p" y/ L- Jeremy S. Anderson4 ~: Y* S# a4 {. }+ ?* h
, h8 I5 x- {0 X9 r$ r) AOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.8 n4 V( h+ c' t
- Elbert Hubbard
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' F' @- h+ s" N7 ?Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.. G. K5 V' E& b9 h
- David Thornburg' i: V- Q% y$ B( }. V$ f8 \' ^
$ }/ S8 w9 V% R/ A( Q9 Z4 D, nThose 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.
' }5 o: }6 Y! r6 g% v2 p% @- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word1 g$ G% w% t6 r. |* J: T+ M
8 {$ X# O Q2 E, i$ IBuild early and build often.% I: q- q- n" Q. {1 k7 _* M
- Proprietary developer adage+ ^. V& h/ O6 D( f
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Release early and release often.# N/ ~/ S$ L: X5 T j2 _9 e+ f
- Open source developer adage
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$ J) F/ Y3 W! S* y$ hWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
. F" s7 L. U0 j" I- Carl Sagan) a" S& k1 G 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.
( A9 n9 R5 A: s. d" ^- 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.1 j7 L* g# W( |4 E) p$ t
- Margaret Thatcher8 |% Z+ K5 A* \
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.1 s! H0 B' ?1 B) W# Q
- Jerry Olson+ n% x' B8 }6 A- ?$ G: |
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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.
2 p! j4 s' f7 U- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899/ m( t* Q. H! ~$ i# S; d- d/ I# P
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
. k: R' q5 i0 T- i- Fairchild Research and Development, 19698 x& `0 r3 H7 a$ p. d
. j$ F- j7 Z- ]Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
$ @, I- O( T% Z- Arthur C. Clarke7 h; K2 _/ C/ j- H$ O* [
: B$ m& H& I4 ?) t( G0 A7 C HAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
, T1 T! l' I4 P3 w' S- Gregory Benford
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8 q) k! d c+ V$ @+ D& D) p2 PNever 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.2 z# ]/ x1 W+ Z
- Alan J. Perlis
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; I7 U' t5 p2 P- m' @I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- v; k# V* N7 D0 V- y0 f* ~- Thomas Edison
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4 y) \4 o, j9 i- J- P; JGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
% r3 W5 {1 @: y$ I% j: 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
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.* n5 _( @ S6 a; V, ]
- 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.( R% D- Z: f4 N( W$ e
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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" b! Z( z y2 B. ^; \ From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
( d5 x& e! N9 v7 c7 v `; F- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.: B0 I2 m# _+ V* F
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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- ]9 o. }0 P+ U( ?6 ~7 UAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.! [. C9 m6 p' r. p# X
- 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?6 r0 v/ O& e2 F" j1 M# l
- Al Gore on Y2K
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% M' v9 ?8 q. l5 q! I% yThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.7 i! E8 y" |& ^, h" `( \# X
- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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" g* W% v( j% \1 ~' L; `: w( b6 zThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
* m; M0 B! \. R( k# C. V- Linus Torvalds- Z8 u* K+ R( G; Z( F, e1 H6 D
4 w2 i1 k" `5 H" ^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., C+ X' C T5 [+ o
- Linus Torvalds- J% C' n/ d( S
! n7 M5 c0 l% T% kWindows is just DOS in drag.. J; ?& Y) v: S+ o( L1 N' h, \
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
& F$ l- k) K$ v4 c- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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