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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.. s4 t# R& c2 c$ a( c
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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' o$ r3 f4 | G3 TWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
/ k8 `# a0 X3 @* H2 }5 v3 x" f- T.S. Elliot5 B: S H; S% r+ d' {% I7 V
# W: |5 B, v) B8 _, B$ F1 O" q& U640K ought to be enough for anybody.
m; a& y; `! ]1 x; u% u- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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( Y# d6 i. a8 a; [The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
( ~2 Q4 C( Q& \1 A& H8 q O- 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.- k7 _% I0 `0 g. v( x O$ v
- George Pompidou/ t" ?0 q2 _8 v0 j
|/ W% k% Q3 Q. |6 cTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.2 `* [/ E& E2 I; Y: }0 z' b
- Anonymous
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( L5 s3 k! z4 z+ hFor 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.. [. E. C( f3 A0 ^
- Anonymous' \: n, w: {9 M+ R( Q
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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. u0 w7 R. \& z4 L. w* U/ }" H
- Andy Rooney+ c5 \% A, e( Z# |3 X" ~
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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.
1 w( S9 n5 x9 ~$ ?) o' X& j ]# D. }- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 19439 _+ { R' [ Q& }. i/ O/ y5 S
8 k' Y3 s: ]6 F1 B9 T3 H0 L9 RIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.( C2 ^% W9 g4 U
- Scott Adams/ C( z4 C6 W% c) P/ e( N4 n9 j
! o+ t0 ~/ v6 D/ u$ uIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.8 S6 [- [7 }# }6 d5 u
- Anonymous
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.* k- l! V! m, Q# Y
- Bradley's Bromide- X/ T; I9 M( d. |4 `7 Y
0 }+ P0 p5 G. T* [The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
6 h/ g9 m1 D0 D9 D7 @- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric- j. g3 f$ T: ?1 T+ y! Q4 }! h; w! u! E
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At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.% x5 b7 G0 F* B- V+ ?
- Anonymous1 v' l* u1 s7 i5 t. {1 a
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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.2 D/ X6 _5 A0 t( I8 i
- Jeremy S. Anderson6 g7 @( N0 \1 }4 D$ w
. h: T* M8 {4 Y- N! b5 ZOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.2 d$ u% _) ^3 j4 y
- Elbert Hubbard5 z1 p0 ^4 M" l0 _: g5 z3 E! |
% s8 Y. I F6 D8 S0 T9 V" DAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
' P" \# B* e0 `- David Thornburg
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6 I1 h) `7 _( z- i) G8 G6 c- q( f1 `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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0 Q! }9 ]* k8 q S f3 {" HSave early, save often.
7 q, g7 l0 h9 O- q9 T f' d8 ?- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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* b9 i6 X0 @: e1 O& f7 Y. o: |Build early and build often., t, U) L4 z# a. [. w! A$ _
- Proprietary developer adage% A3 z3 K( f5 \& i
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Release early and release often.
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A/ I, B9 @2 ^6 x' \. H2 W3 oWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.! l" X2 `5 N. K* D: h/ f: h2 ^" W5 R
- Carl Sagan8 e& P' V7 I% S* w b% u# z+ m
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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.
b7 F: G9 ?( ~! U v6 r& k- Anonymous
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% D! Y: x. j1 `% N% @% DThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them." t. D, V; j5 q6 C$ r$ B. H
- Margaret Thatcher
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& ]8 |# D0 L3 EThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.8 \1 z* T! \4 b6 _% w" D
- Jerry Olson
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- K; }+ A2 a2 Q4 |The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little./ i; s4 b: O' k& |
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
! q) a' y. v" J- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 18992 l$ r+ K+ J) W
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
B8 j" t4 [& u2 b0 R- Fairchild Research and Development, 19691 D1 ? e+ g5 ^, D2 z
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.9 ~! ]' S4 n7 R5 z3 d
- Arthur C. Clarke
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6 V: |4 K1 @$ o# o5 M4 B! a- G0 S! z& ^Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
0 D7 T1 X9 ^. j. U- Gregory Benford
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.& N8 ~# s2 P# @
- Anonymous
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0 T/ w+ B$ {; T0 AA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.& Y# x8 H Q7 Z& @$ b
- Alan J. Perlis7 E1 r0 N6 K9 U1 U5 X: H
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.; K1 _' j. t! V
- 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.
& D: X0 l+ ]" j- u4 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
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net./ d2 z9 `: E- v/ r; ]! c" R4 u" j. P
- Senator Bob Dole% n" m8 x% k: P
. E% D, ^7 a: {4 sComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
. l4 J4 p" \8 ~+ g8 U9 N- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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) L+ D4 k+ g! @: U3 W; f From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.; B/ B: d6 L. P" k& q5 F2 ]) J
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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3 H |" j3 L( |" Z6 [* B4 ZTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
3 k( |9 n+ o* S6 M4 r+ |- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
& @# a+ ?. s0 H7 @4 {0 O* x- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos7 D4 s" X9 z4 y
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How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
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) O2 S3 V0 B! r4 i% e( uThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
" M" }# r. _* U |- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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3 S+ _+ b& I/ {2 d# u* V& |The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.( i6 I$ ]1 P0 t1 T4 ~7 v
- Linus Torvalds4 e3 \# R# y& j9 I5 }, |2 G
0 U! z9 X# w- P, vTo 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.
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Windows is just DOS in drag.
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
: D8 l/ @; n! }5 b- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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