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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
5 s4 T1 C# \) u# e& ?, O+ Q) _0 a- Andrew S. Tannenbaum6 U) l; @ p/ j+ b
; W/ ^9 I" h) a5 N b3 l% B, zWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?: N: m) Q9 c- m7 a: m# C
- T.S. Elliot6 M8 |) U+ r, `: s$ t0 A
6 T [( [) r" L/ V1 m6 t9 u640K ought to be enough for anybody.
* G, A; }+ W" Z2 s- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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1 Z: |4 Z+ [. O7 Q/ v% GThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do., Z0 K4 u2 U5 K+ O% e- [
- B. F. Skinner- I' k$ @9 I- d5 ]( |8 H" M
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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.
1 Y9 T* G) k2 c0 f- George Pompidou3 j9 r; C* g: r* N7 G
7 {- A! ]: D7 n( w- v/ \' h2 YTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.* @" R: j5 p! q: s, O, V" s
- Anonymous
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: C! y" O" S- v# L$ pFor 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., V4 `: D# X2 l! N" V7 @ x6 |& X
- Anonymous, ]. t2 T- ]; f$ q
% S- x( r* n) f$ O* W( AComputers 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.
, [# V: K8 V4 h9 u. J- Andy Rooney' E( s2 a, T2 t% S- B
) `$ A- R9 A& {8 r4 JIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.4 A7 I4 _9 c& f0 |
- Richard Power
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' r9 {% _ U7 e0 f9 [- N2 JI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.8 o. |4 A1 }0 ?3 n! [
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 19437 w8 Y* R/ s# D' z+ @" C2 T, w
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
; ^9 a( d& u2 S) q) Q- Scott Adams
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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./ V. {1 Y! l/ n' Z4 V7 _: W7 P
- Anonymous
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.9 ]+ @5 ^/ F M( ~/ l
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
) x0 R ^7 c/ F' J1 E- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric2 [8 r( @3 n; ~0 p8 p6 M5 N1 L6 z0 e
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At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
3 i9 f( k- y0 P% g- Anonymous
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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.+ f3 z: P. Q' t+ K
- Jeremy S. Anderson
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1 q" h( W: m7 b, E! O4 y( u! KOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.2 h" n" h& y" |, G+ o
- Elbert Hubbard
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' H( N c; \' h- q% C# x2 r( @6 \Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
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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.% }3 J2 Y6 o7 x& c& K d
- Anonymous
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2 r6 t! M7 f( a u( x/ r6 K1 b( ZSave early, save often.+ P1 p) N2 A0 V/ O' b% k: B
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word, u) }& F- _/ ~/ k6 n/ M( t. @
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Build early and build often.. z. k! H0 q1 |7 C% A Y0 p5 _
- Proprietary developer adage6 |/ k1 c- C" C, U5 k) M
" p c9 `/ ~5 j# ?6 kRelease early and release often.4 E: P& p2 _* h ?6 t" \
- Open source developer adage
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# e4 l7 }$ C5 p3 PWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology./ U# [4 Z( }* }' j7 T0 x; B
- 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 e5 Z a9 H5 `( l" F- Anonymous
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, I) g J! _8 C: |- c6 vThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
* T) j( p0 F' r7 T" Q" r- Margaret Thatcher
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% U# g& O9 ^- {4 C N0 K3 [0 dThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
' R/ |8 i% G2 f0 i. ^8 _- Jerry Olson8 V) M7 O- \, \! V$ Z) |, Q7 x
: z( {( C9 k& X# b gThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.( V% i d: H/ C- _
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! ~5 @; c* k# I. ]9 @7 WEverything that can be invented has been invented.7 j' O$ f; ?" C; s+ A
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899& n8 L5 v* J, C4 z% z. \
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT1 {2 j- ~7 Z2 i' ?
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969: @! D, v( G. c* I8 W- l
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
) S0 C" A+ x* j- Arthur C. Clarke+ X2 D! l! d+ t: {7 A5 s
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
7 a6 o; i! _. z( w+ i; x- Z! d: c+ X- Gregory Benford
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3 q) m" \" u; z* _! V1 a/ CNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.
7 M: K7 j$ D) U) F; h& ?- Anonymous
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.+ v. B* G+ `' O. J, c6 q6 x8 b5 k
- Alan J. Perlis
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
. C4 E$ x& F, t0 \- Thomas Edison0 q, x. j S1 b2 [
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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.
, a0 h* U7 a8 I" h2 R/ U( r- 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.
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
3 \/ K$ D6 {/ }. C- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.# b3 B( O( S5 S8 H. p
- 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.
; e, a6 s: D0 D& p9 @- Andrew Heller, IBM
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7 R% ?; C; [9 j3 l: {6 QAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.+ `' ~' _3 ~3 ~. L9 `, t( R
- 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?! |' I2 p: I- K7 C
- Al Gore on Y2K
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent." ^" u; ?; `# e5 R. `6 J9 m% U9 h
- Sydney Brenner in 19270 D% M; G; @4 { {$ h! K
( `& ]' [. o. v! d2 q" Y9 yThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
0 V" z; e3 X9 L$ @, C6 Z- Linus Torvalds: f- O, r8 R% C
; C& c1 z9 f' g0 i3 |/ 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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4 W/ C- n+ \2 Y+ P" qWindows is just DOS in drag.
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
, Z J( h* K4 x$ ~" O- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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