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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
4 F7 Z; V6 J3 c k7 i9 l- Andrew S. Tannenbaum" C6 D8 h5 I8 T
/ O. X$ L( y' Y7 |$ @* QWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
2 X1 n( x/ O. o; M- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody./ N: |, \1 n& h$ V# U* i; d
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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% d3 G; ]8 u3 G xThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do., O. I* a* I1 {) k/ Q {$ x+ J4 j
- 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.
) S! r: t- L8 M% q- George Pompidou7 I5 C/ l2 T7 f6 O& G
6 Y7 o8 k0 P% R, m! G1 \; rTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.% k |( ~( @: i% P- ^& t. ]# C
- Anonymous2 R4 B* @; Z) C G8 r% ?
0 k2 S7 T9 p4 m' b6 K8 `( Q( y3 aFor 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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/ C$ a1 c4 P) [; e9 E: c+ F- jComputers 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.) l# n a& F* k; m1 d
- Andy Rooney
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.9 `+ o5 C& X; L
- Richard Power# i7 Q" e6 m1 ~: U. k
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.8 F" l7 J# w9 b5 C2 s
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 19433 v! o. H( s& A$ U2 \/ ?( C6 R
# l! a$ D( n- n0 {- SIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.( g0 Y- \" c0 u9 B% z
- Scott Adams5 v0 B2 n- P! i8 D, {
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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.
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.* e' N n% h/ t2 `
- Bradley's Bromide
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.: y0 B) j( |( ?6 n5 y
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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+ R- k, ?, T+ E) @0 U9 RAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
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5 \& b1 |0 t/ H( W! PThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
: ?$ V7 s# Z% Z7 Q: w' U8 y: J- 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.
5 l3 X% D" |. n! l$ |- Elbert Hubbard
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: Y- u+ c" B9 n2 [/ M" S' O! Q9 r1 zAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be., r5 h, Q) N' W# X- a* R* y
- 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.% m) Y1 m, x- [/ `# D& N
- Anonymous
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$ w' g; Y& V' a" S% }! o+ ?Save early, save often.
) Y; m) P9 {2 }+ X$ h6 O- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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! `+ G5 `3 N2 v; y' nBuild early and build often.
8 |# R/ X0 H1 v- a' l! [- Proprietary developer adage6 n' x" X5 S- D' A. }1 t
4 F" T" |+ T, l7 V, xRelease early and release often.6 r ?9 P1 n9 A5 p5 q
- Open source developer adage, V6 {# y7 f! G3 U" @+ ^! g& F
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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.
( G- k, Y2 O9 x8 \- 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.
" H! I D3 P. H' Q& O8 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.
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
* L6 Y- p5 k: c! |' k7 x" F0 L$ b- Jerry Olson
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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.
$ B5 N6 _ w1 u ?( [9 F/ s; J- Porterfield
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.# t+ a/ K0 X4 n8 u" r: f
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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( N) V7 |5 E) X0 K0 X, K& oGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT8 U; p+ j( F( a7 Q& T7 Y! |, x
- Fairchild Research and Development, 19699 b+ T, y) L! ]5 S0 b0 M% i
) j; n6 K" c5 G, Y% R( jAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.1 K+ d, e) b1 d) w/ y% L o
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1 Z6 d3 Z) t, M$ l6 p+ N9 {Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
$ |2 M q; B4 p! _/ J/ @- y- Gregory Benford
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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" A5 |1 A: m1 K6 p& P- s+ CA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.8 q e0 W. z4 d. i6 ~
- Alan J. Perlis
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+ f. H4 Q, B! G& s6 e& ~I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.: q+ Z5 a' S, m' M, T8 `
- Thomas Edison8 r. s4 m) A" w( @. s/ x9 ?
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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.
4 h8 m: r1 E8 w, }- U1 ?. j8 s5 C- 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" j& I: B# [% G6 w5 S3 T1 n
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.& s* C C) \0 `
- Senator Bob Dole
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- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
! Z1 B g2 E, A2 I9 v5 J9 E- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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2 w) W* V3 v* i! G+ E uTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.: F# Y- W4 b! L/ h6 o
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.6 e* m" q: N% Q Q
- 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?
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
" N5 C' e, Y2 f9 y- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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p6 E! t- r# } G4 DThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
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7 V# }2 q4 L# S$ v, w, QTo 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.0 _$ j0 M5 d3 P5 i& |4 w
- Linus Torvalds
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5 w, s6 z) e. a( p1 ~, \$ v& ~3 w( {Windows is just DOS in drag.
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- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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