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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
# x- }: o; d/ P$ S3 [, I- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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( A! b9 V) ?* K& ?6 H7 C+ DWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
! c" [) P9 o! S5 [- T.S. Elliot
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B% _/ y$ P5 }640K ought to be enough for anybody." j' N! C- _/ W" k
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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7 D* k3 e" o2 B* K9 U/ y1 oThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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: n) b2 l7 `# u0 _4 ?% s( yThere 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.4 n. {9 a: R' g" z3 S" Z
- George Pompidou1 T; d! j6 P n" G3 h6 V
, K9 M1 f1 n2 g6 t3 Q" A. P" `4 JTechnology 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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+ Q% q% c* I( \5 \. vComputers 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.
# |( L7 s* ]; V& f5 T" t' ^- Andy Rooney2 J1 \; Q# W4 T
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In 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.
9 w7 j j; I% s: \2 A- 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.
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) ^ N R! K, u+ X& EIn 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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& l6 ?$ {+ f2 w/ N8 |5 w; w1 hIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
" u' h* \# K; Q5 \2 n- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric: C/ K) G t( D! U
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At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
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, l4 o2 ~5 E' j' m. M fThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
3 a! _+ s" h3 x2 h# a" U- u) b- Jeremy S. Anderson
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; U% S( E; P- t. H4 d9 LOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.% N- F8 H2 ?1 T8 I% C/ E* g
- Elbert Hubbard- O9 w( H: ^" \0 N) o! s
# @% w# s% P3 AAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
7 L4 J* U( ^( L E; N- 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.% Q+ Y0 U, L3 o- m
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: J" N: m3 w$ B# I' Q8 J3 `Save early, save often.
" U5 W. i2 Z1 n+ _ r- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often.
: _+ \, I* V! J- i- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often.
+ `0 a6 h& X4 `2 N3 S/ \* _" p- Open source developer adage2 D' L" J0 _, H' R& z c. Y
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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., x: ^& G2 @8 u4 e; h9 o
- 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./ c0 @0 `" Y( b7 _' S7 t" z6 q
- 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.* U+ d) B0 f9 x- P! o7 @* t V
- Margaret Thatcher
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.: |! ~- e# ^+ u/ Q4 o; N, F
- Jerry Olson( A2 R& ]) P! p% k: X/ P
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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.6 z% z* c" q- a/ t! `
- Porterfield
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1 W2 v" }) c3 zEverything that can be invented has been invented.
9 k* `. f# ^3 E, B5 B# U: h+ D& g/ e- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT# m$ V) l p) h5 R! q. B
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
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' V7 j9 C; V5 F% B$ F2 Y& e4 sAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
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. G' X, f0 ^+ r1 aA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God." Z* u8 W% r& Z/ p/ Y
- Alan J. Perlis
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% \; s9 w; Z" S" H! q. gI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
5 \9 z4 s& F8 A5 L: I0 K$ d W- 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.
" y/ w& u) a' Y/ t' P- 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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! ?! g+ ?1 Y1 W& B) k' yThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
: M& y8 t" G& k8 z- A& a" v; d& O8 w- 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.8 c) Q* P5 A k4 q; o0 Z0 V
- Popular Mechanics, 1949; o3 f) h6 K2 A8 x( C4 _
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.0 ?1 o) x- u* F( d
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy& r+ u! X% I# n
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Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.# f. l: ^* u6 q4 V' z' k2 v! W) U
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
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3 R5 }5 p% `% V% M" A" }How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
4 k5 b0 ` i' C6 Z' [, ^; q; I- Al Gore on Y2K/ g/ x5 n; p I0 E; @3 G
% H# w: ~% }7 v% uThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
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; ~9 K; f, T6 _5 ?0 u1 oThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.2 L6 f8 B) {- i
- Linus Torvalds
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3 k2 `6 j* t- d9 g5 |" ^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.: ^+ q' E5 s; S5 q
- Linus Torvalds
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Windows is just DOS in drag.0 o" N a0 b# @! z
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( U0 ?/ v9 A4 ]) s( j; P& C8 VThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.6 ~* Q8 {# J. L4 X" ^
- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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