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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
) P" B1 j# ?& K) E. l$ u0 O- Andrew S. Tannenbaum" p' p/ G% [0 ]7 F; y
, F4 B( m0 U, L/ c# CWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
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, X( a; C/ d5 E0 r$ P) \% Z: S640K ought to be enough for anybody.
7 t% O% _; u7 q, V6 Z- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
; I4 D) }1 r" ~6 @; @" ]4 N5 o- B. F. Skinner
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7 Y* F3 c- g* I2 _; pThere 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 L$ ?$ G% F
- George Pompidou
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( f! o6 A5 x- s( [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.
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. G2 m/ C' v, G SFor 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.4 N7 e: @0 r1 {) a0 Y2 n2 ?6 i5 X
- Anonymous
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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.( |' Y; a, }9 R: \8 e( b* B" p6 l% @
- Andy Rooney
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.; i2 J9 @# ~5 ?
- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
: r( u5 H$ ^. m9 B; E$ M! C- Scott Adams7 f% w5 i7 Z% d, N9 | ?) z
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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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0 U" g3 ]2 w% n" uIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
; e1 U3 K) t( i" z1 C( G& K- Bradley's Bromide
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" I$ y. H) F/ x9 CThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
: F) Y& s m9 z& p- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric& I9 o. o1 |2 k3 y. r
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At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
. [4 N; F5 O. b$ h0 I, q6 {7 s( Z2 Q- 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./ j F* D& k& Z" Z" _2 K5 z
- 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.
; s" ~- w$ O' `6 W3 s- `- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
3 X) T, z5 F& n0 c* }: `- David Thornburg( G0 c* ^1 t, V
6 f3 j% ^5 d( F8 |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.- {& Y. G$ r4 P K3 C) v
- Anonymous
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+ G% P, C+ ?# @: W/ X3 D e6 oSave early, save often.
/ Q6 T4 `* H9 [4 i, u6 ]. E- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word5 Z+ j6 s& `" w) g; y
0 q7 j) D' v7 |# o+ Y; rBuild early and build often.
. Q8 q2 J4 W# E- Proprietary developer adage8 s$ D! Q' o" M# c1 ~1 F
2 j( p! Y6 o1 @1 \# c' N. G/ b3 ~Release early and release often.% v" Z2 v+ \) k; H! L
- Open source developer adage; t" v( u! o! T
( C7 m$ w* `& h- [3 x5 } e4 }We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.7 ]8 M3 e7 ~. @
- 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.4 n$ |5 @0 I: @4 C( C
- 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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2 m, u3 J- L6 O7 y" C+ J! H$ {) SThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon., ^# i# F1 D1 f/ l+ p1 ~' g7 k6 D5 i
- Jerry Olson
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1 E* @: v, ~! P$ x/ n$ |# f1 fThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.4 I" @: n' G1 a- o( S% r L& y
- Porterfield
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8 J! n2 T1 s; |# m; h% DEverything that can be invented has been invented.
7 e3 |! T. u1 q1 e% {' {$ Q5 ~$ u9 n1 ^5 T- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT# J0 g2 K: s& G& B5 V
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969# i" ~0 r2 E- B% Y/ V
2 t# y' u- q/ W$ U% e3 iAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic./ C* s) H0 u' { s. J5 h
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( i- C( A. {! l1 u- e' f3 }" NAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
+ |7 ~% J& S4 E: R5 _- Gregory Benford) u* q; J7 J( T) T
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.) B5 b( Z" [4 q2 R7 c2 z# a
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9 c: a; i) V Y$ P! OA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. R+ @' v4 W1 {. ?+ i( E2 v) _0 C
- Alan J. Perlis
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; x7 D/ b/ o. g4 A, d) iI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
% R$ N9 Y; d! o5 p: s( _- Thomas Edison
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' O/ r* Q% c r, k; E5 x. @Get your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.) H* _/ [" x# t- O/ p+ Y
- 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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$ ?) j" X- N# k& N+ c, GThe Internet is a great way to get on the net." s4 \1 Z. v1 F1 A- s
- Senator Bob Dole# [3 h6 u" O ^/ F* U, V
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
/ S# g; L/ W6 \9 K0 @- Popular Mechanics, 19499 B& o- ~; j1 D K1 h1 \
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.- A) T% X. P2 e9 z( r! a
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy8 h' C9 l4 i9 x- Y) C
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Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
9 }5 I3 X% w8 o0 R6 ]- Andrew Heller, IBM
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- _) q! }% I, x( Y5 |. l3 l5 j/ qAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
' \% G3 `& E5 j& l3 q. ?% h- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos' }' X* u: h. c* ~$ f& ?9 L1 X
# {: f! ? E+ xHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?6 p! s, ]6 z1 R, e7 i# m8 _
- Al Gore on Y2K
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.$ {. h9 @6 I, X* K, q
- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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. F% N8 e3 D, ^( j) h; BThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
2 q9 O0 Q! v: h$ G/ p- Linus Torvalds
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! B+ {1 O+ A( `& TTo 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.0 K! G" b4 v. D$ N6 q; C0 F
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; G/ z% g. @9 _9 |+ \+ D$ }There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
1 B# P/ `! i' Y6 T" g- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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