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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.& R8 q( ~$ @/ d' t
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?, k, t$ P( R O" u. w6 X0 b9 R
- T.S. Elliot2 E& I- Z% Q5 r5 D+ e
+ ^& u# w0 S y2 M( B640K ought to be enough for anybody.
( n5 R- q3 O# M+ G, i- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981; s9 v( {* t1 ?1 Z" @9 \
# d" K% c3 z& o. i% t0 w" z; yThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.$ l! c1 F8 G7 u1 L& J) B
- 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.+ u, [. t5 n. m k! k
- George Pompidou$ b# l8 @5 G' B( @, ]0 O; b
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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.
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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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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.
4 N" q, Y% v T/ c7 X- Andy Rooney, r7 E& D0 u# i% [& D
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
: e( u( c4 J, y" R- Richard Power
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0 O2 F( d- j) ]1 f2 h, [9 y0 C6 F `I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
; s, y3 B) @8 ~6 H. ?- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 19437 c4 y3 T% ]& a
9 q' z$ \" r2 @If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
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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.+ ^: B& B: x) }" z: T3 x2 G4 u/ n, E
- Anonymous1 N! H2 l& E6 F4 ]3 k+ ~
7 l; ^/ {. f: k. b; {( I# HIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
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7 { t/ H8 B% l2 M+ i) y, ^* KThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
3 e! Y+ s- m. M8 _- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric& f' v. m+ u- o2 g3 }/ R7 P/ ?, |
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At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
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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.
7 j; |2 ?9 i6 g& f4 [# ]- Jeremy S. Anderson
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3 z* S( [& a M3 o Y) QOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.7 G" q% _ d5 e4 c9 {+ U& T) B
- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.3 F- F; H" |% {5 F) R ?! F
- David Thornburg
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4 U( t2 F* m. j: |; o0 u. wThose 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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Save early, save often.' U6 Z. u: @9 H. h2 j
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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4 c# P3 V0 F, S# {( [8 Q2 y, T8 aBuild early and build often.' W$ @( N- K$ P+ Z
- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often.) J9 Q/ [( {" a0 i! n& A3 C$ M1 @
- Open source developer adage
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* a2 g* X* N; ?1 `' n# i; T' T& w# dWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.- k, C8 T- y7 N) @% |* `3 ?
- Carl Sagan6 N: T% [* h1 d' O |
0 ~" q+ I8 {3 Q! s; g1 r/ F1 ~4 ?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.8 R' I! _; j, }5 E
- 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.2 V- N3 V3 H' M; q- t
- Margaret Thatcher1 t- R/ t% @4 C0 p8 H
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.! Y: U& t2 |, u
- 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.( @) F( X! g. T2 K
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
+ n( m+ u" M" i# y9 F ?. O- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
M! \$ H/ p0 H9 ]' {( r- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969* x9 n1 V p1 @( m; j+ F. q9 i
8 [" C# F6 @; K1 m, X* a. fAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
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- Gregory Benford
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry., s1 ^. f, ~) o V+ G' @* a+ k1 m
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/ z1 h2 A) r0 `+ c6 z+ M) U& XA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- W# @$ V+ f: k6 O1 @4 A7 x- Thomas Edison
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: X2 ~& e& Y) u2 y: EGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.4 P5 m; U2 P" P% X: j4 m, I. N
- 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 developed5 M D. n. |5 P+ |9 f0 N( v0 ]; L- ?
( q) y& k+ T! L Q; eThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
4 `% S5 O3 u2 m* z* j( z- 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.: i6 `; \; l3 I, M
- Popular Mechanics, 1949( C7 M6 x* h/ \, ]) r* f
4 e# X" w7 o6 x# n' H( l, u' H From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
5 _- \& Q; C# a7 _% }1 Z- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy; ~8 v$ J1 P+ S4 P- J/ q
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Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
+ O0 a5 {2 U; x4 }- a/ o- Andrew Heller, IBM6 I F) m1 d3 t% }; t
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.3 V& p+ l2 L/ }1 W6 r- `
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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8 U I. B( B2 S/ ^( pHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?( T4 z$ D! [& H- p" Q& a
- Al Gore on Y2K
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
( H+ b8 Q5 ?( M8 q% z- Sydney Brenner in 19271 q$ g8 [1 h; b I5 Q
) a7 C* _2 j6 F+ Z. K- PThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.+ {- b2 R5 m( p/ ?
- Linus Torvalds
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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.
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0 m5 |8 |8 @# Y1 SWindows is just DOS in drag.( P7 t% M7 D: t2 I# H! n$ b
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( b9 {: M, r5 [$ |" E* @$ Q# FThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
- T5 @: B* s1 {& s$ e' `- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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