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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
# c0 B/ @3 R* n: r4 H- Andrew S. Tannenbaum4 V" U6 W8 o& j
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
# t% r3 R4 q8 G7 W4 ^- T.S. Elliot
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! n6 v1 R6 ~, Q+ `640K ought to be enough for anybody.
$ p% z* M1 T" [ h9 @0 _6 v- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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( e Z1 Z- ?* @% W. @0 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.- T R4 {- Z! X+ h' F- w
- George Pompidou. r7 A1 O& j1 D, c) r) r o: v
3 Y; r' i* X; B$ G, @7 OTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.3 y7 b6 c$ G$ c: k/ [( C; T) d
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For 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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$ n Q) Z) ?- Q; D' 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.4 M5 J' \% X$ ^8 c8 }: m
- Andy Rooney
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.; \% e9 V+ W! M5 d/ J2 Y, q3 E) |
- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.0 S) |; b- k" E F6 Z$ J+ C$ L: r1 q
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943! y2 R6 c. [; `
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.0 w% F3 P$ @) r7 Z) i
- Scott Adams; M% L/ j2 `( Y0 l1 J: G; _2 n g
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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.$ _5 r9 V! j4 Q) ?5 W8 x
- Bradley's Bromide
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7 t% j: J+ J) q5 C8 u: T5 n% c1 _The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
3 D; s& K& w9 M- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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- y1 t% v, O: n4 }At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
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1 l% S! I8 d9 U( r/ kThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
" O3 c/ P0 m$ i/ I( }" |- Jeremy S. Anderson4 J" U4 N; ? k/ G
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.2 ?) U+ \1 i0 H, P1 s6 h
- Elbert Hubbard3 o9 j' u! h& B+ K4 f
( h& H, W$ X* W" J8 [9 uAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.% R+ n8 c ^' D1 O' I' p$ c
- David Thornburg/ M1 O: C7 a, m
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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.
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! A0 i0 R: I0 pSave early, save often.9 L- e, c- l9 ~% `2 A$ {9 N
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often.
8 \0 W+ e I$ L5 s5 L$ l- Proprietary developer adage
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$ N \$ q" ^8 f- X# GRelease early and release often.
, R/ ~. {$ h1 b. z! ]- Open source developer adage' H" G. Q p: E; j, ~! Y+ g& v
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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.
& \ c+ b6 W5 t) f- Carl Sagan, i2 G" c: H9 h1 m/ S/ 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.
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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.
; n3 o2 L v; P4 ]4 s" B6 m. o4 E- Margaret Thatcher
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: v, E( R* m' `The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.4 b( H4 ]; P7 r0 p
- Jerry Olson
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& E7 e% i% m8 \6 Q) N/ pThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little., C! M8 u4 I. G4 `2 f: }! X+ m
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3 x0 l; ?" S( _$ f' i# o7 N1 qEverything that can be invented has been invented.* @: n/ Z, f- S2 ~) A* o- g9 Q
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 18991 i3 V; Z. ~# A" S0 n& A, } q
* O- H. x; W5 ^GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
( ?, G4 u" W p! x6 K' g: g$ S- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969, M q+ y* C9 C; ^$ ?' J& u" l
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
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$ N( U* p% S1 E/ ?0 ~$ IAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
9 _4 E, l9 i- g0 d: e- Gregory Benford$ H6 d6 O' R% ^! Q
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.5 l0 d7 K$ o/ N' a1 e3 d
- Anonymous
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
: [% A' _ h: _! @- p9 \9 a- m- Alan J. Perlis+ _. G4 V# x0 [2 j- G7 @9 g
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.. E7 y& F4 n' @( I
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% K, U0 t+ `* E7 C0 M& QGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.9 u2 e3 k) d+ V/ | q
- 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; a, {; M I3 A8 d1 U$ I4 h
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
1 {. K$ ?4 m% a- Senator Bob Dole
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
4 Q& K! F$ V* ?& z; I+ E- Popular Mechanics, 19495 _7 N7 w2 _3 Z) _; P v
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it., U. U7 k. g& Y+ c1 @" Z
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy* \1 M: f) q/ r- o5 o
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Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.& N3 S9 z) U5 W# b' t: o: r
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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5 \% }/ P% g0 M4 ^1 i( ~: DAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.2 s7 A! ~4 I3 p/ N% }1 m
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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1 k- A, m6 G: X3 EHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
5 z7 t! i' \) U1 c% ]6 @- Al Gore on Y2K
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2 r+ q; e! R2 Y9 G! ]7 P5 T. I( x1 wThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.& a; x9 z( J6 J7 x0 E9 Q h
- 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.7 D6 {& q [% V% y$ V, u# W+ @
- Linus Torvalds
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\% D0 w! u5 `3 HTo 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.! Z, p+ ]5 p, [: e; N" g8 U) V, L
- Linus Torvalds7 w8 N; x) m7 N5 L8 \+ }
) Y) d) @9 O/ x8 J$ kWindows is just DOS in drag.
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" E6 [# S. p* t6 p4 i! S+ K! CThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
, N: e. P. T7 [& L) A- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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