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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
. T1 p! R: {# m. e- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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# N1 {7 ~$ w+ i* j n1 |& XWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
c1 h! m: r9 H% X0 f3 I+ T- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.- @4 y. [8 i: \& M V
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981 V. W* u E: G1 D. ?5 V0 r3 m& b% v
3 W# c4 V" \7 r& GThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.; { _1 ]9 A& d3 V6 l b, n
- B. F. Skinner
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9 Z( U3 C$ b BThere 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" i5 j: [7 N7 `; ~+ P, S5 F
- George Pompidou
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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.
8 w6 C7 u; r! ?- Anonymous
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) E1 f0 `3 {9 V% s7 l, K. QFor 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. K0 _+ Y& _8 G# G3 q9 \6 y
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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.+ x& `8 v. k6 d+ O; i* G
- Andy Rooney9 |1 Y- {# o0 n8 H+ H3 W
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
: `# N& [! ^1 ?" @+ e5 Q Y) c p- Richard Power0 N0 F4 q! G Y6 Q
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- V+ |7 y8 }: t& P9 k+ I- 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.; [( C9 L, P- F& H' M$ v
- Scott Adams& m+ ~8 B2 l3 `: Z" ?2 @+ a( G* s
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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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) o2 f$ p* x( r$ f4 LIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.3 l5 k% e! W: l7 f# p' P
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
, O( @8 Z( s, Q$ q4 W4 c0 `7 D- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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' H t& n y* J8 M" {) S$ qAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.$ u0 a# O5 G; |8 N2 Q/ X
- Anonymous" X" ^0 a3 C; O+ a0 C' P
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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.6 A4 r1 a/ a$ @
- Jeremy S. Anderson) A# u5 t* y+ D) I' w/ s! N
6 W# a: S4 A; D2 x# F4 k0 cOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.( U$ A( y3 b+ y4 @0 m* }
- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.) x3 a7 Y/ S& `( U Q- E+ c+ S
- David Thornburg" d* k" {# s3 B7 V3 f
8 I6 h. W9 r2 i3 |# N8 cThose 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.. t; W B' F. b% t( B
- Anonymous
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+ O4 \ O% ~2 s4 ySave early, save often.
7 R) v; Z0 E. ~- u3 Q- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word% [4 e! ]* S' ~& l. R" i8 j
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Build early and build often.
; S N) V/ i* I5 f- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often.% n: U( }0 r. M8 q- {/ A
- Open source developer adage3 F6 H) I2 p; \
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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./ K% b4 |) S% ?! m( O, i
- Carl Sagan
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7 X# W. P4 V# j* TIf 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.
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+ Z, v# J. W. H- H u# OThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.* @2 v9 I1 C2 _! G. S+ B0 D. H
- Margaret Thatcher
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Y* a. k2 ^9 I% U' i; PThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
0 F5 _, f+ y# q1 A0 |# J+ T3 Y- @- 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.
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$ n0 _6 H4 ~- HEverything that can be invented has been invented.
/ \( q: j4 d% t% x- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 18993 X; i! K9 q3 ^7 J: @& v/ K0 J
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5 Z- O5 L% L) U0 I! `7 o- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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" f0 j. U. L1 c; }. VAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
) J m. q( ?6 d' l% c( {5 v8 t- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
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. k3 q, u2 H0 e& MNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.
) D/ g. A9 F9 t- Anonymous
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.1 G% S( c- K0 D6 h- Z
- Alan J. Perlis
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" b4 T y, {( a$ Q: g y: d$ v. g9 iI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
9 c$ h+ t4 @1 z! p" q/ L- 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.
; n w" Q& }& [ U/ G$ 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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7 d: Z2 g4 G. O& P0 Q& xThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
: P4 B1 D2 G6 d- Senator Bob Dole$ U; [! [' I, I# G( ?+ a
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
9 r$ z! f1 t4 e) Q" r8 A: r- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.5 P: s2 u9 e( @( v1 ^% O- @
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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9 I* w8 }" p# mTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
: Y" [4 S( u# E0 w- Andrew Heller, IBM4 `) Y7 D+ H0 n
( C) T8 r% X. T& V0 Z- l9 vAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
* G+ ]. Y) L5 Y- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos0 C1 {9 H4 Q7 j' x: i K* n' p
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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.& }0 \0 {8 l9 _( Z/ o* e5 u, {) F
- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
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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." m! ~ ?. r) \
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Windows is just DOS in drag.8 O) U# L L: F! F1 ?% H, i9 C) T
- Anonymous
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. i& b2 M* U2 _7 E* B p- @There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
, c0 m) W4 @5 {% i7 ]( K5 m- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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