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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.7 ?, b; a: o2 v6 f0 y
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum& p; m) \$ _1 M; d- n5 q7 ?& W
! m, \- x7 ]( y* X M1 FWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?# q0 ~1 N$ J2 I' [6 S/ n: `9 ]; o+ s! A
- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody. O* I3 p7 X0 p! O
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 19813 E" S; N; P/ `4 y1 I8 C" Z
1 t' s7 v, |! z! J. ]! T1 c, u( q6 [& |The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.% \& e* E* J6 g! }+ |) q+ b
- B. F. Skinner% o& w7 _0 [7 _! {4 c- `
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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.
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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.- W2 N: K* z! G- y; t8 A
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6 r0 g0 B \3 C( CComputers 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.
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.: W( j( d/ o- N3 h
- Richard Power
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3 h% s; q. \' jI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
/ e1 P6 n( _. P, r* O0 w5 ~- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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1 x* M' T9 b7 lIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.! i# \6 {" _& K# x- Z
- 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.' [, d' I7 H0 Q7 V* j0 w7 _7 S8 H
- Anonymous
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
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% T9 L: D* U. I% q3 p: C% j$ xThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.- |6 r/ B" v9 ^, x* S* X0 n
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric4 n8 y8 H7 | X; u
$ f l8 }6 u/ g# C" O/ {+ \At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.: p2 ~1 ?, w+ G& C; h7 e
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Z: ~ _% Z% C/ rThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.1 n3 A* E" u3 ]" {
- Jeremy S. Anderson
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\9 S! t# H8 h9 p6 uOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
; t9 w Z5 ]# I4 R- Elbert Hubbard
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. q; |# u& Y7 [( T }+ N2 F, yAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
: ~# ?- [7 {& s- H3 h- David Thornburg
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8 C, J1 k* T( N' N! a S# @; ZThose 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.9 G$ U, k5 P- c( J; Z
- Anonymous
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Save early, save often.
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, z7 J6 M1 B* A! y1 q+ h6 r& pBuild early and build often.+ S( x3 k( ?5 O# v3 p0 G
- Proprietary developer adage; _9 J; |. ?5 D3 A* y/ q; }2 }
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Release early and release often.1 C- B1 R0 K2 E" h9 l2 _- P6 [) p0 i
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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.' v2 o4 n/ ? U' Q
- Carl Sagan
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; Q/ S& n4 j7 gIf 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." n u( R" k' h1 n0 L8 z
- Margaret Thatcher
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% q) |# i2 C8 s. b" d+ v6 v' {% U0 mThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.9 n9 D- T L3 y: g0 c
- Jerry Olson
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5 f; T6 G+ K9 w+ h6 i* VThe 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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' x& B9 V8 Z& i! M& E. QEverything that can be invented has been invented.# J* f: D6 V5 p3 e1 M( x# [
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 w9 p# ^# w8 `, T& ?
1 y$ n/ b+ J* f7 L. C% F' oGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT% A3 Y9 _* O" q
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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- d2 L5 p7 _7 l9 UAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
+ K) M3 I/ N y6 j$ c5 d, u {+ I4 Y' s- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
% i1 S9 O& z1 s8 T9 L; l# L- Gregory Benford
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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) h$ I' F/ w- eA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
6 ?2 H% M2 D+ H1 ]0 Y- Alan J. Perlis
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
# m' x" N ?3 f) P5 s- Thomas Edison
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9 `" z& v; V7 o; _( F9 L5 R4 [Get your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.) o% B4 x/ k, i8 s& f" W" P
- 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$ V" M: o1 Z9 V6 H, [
1 U% C' @* X0 ~) M: WThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
- |. n# H& O' z$ J' ?) T- Senator Bob Dole1 }4 V8 S1 F: @3 f _, x2 o, _
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
# R& d% t$ d3 a5 m3 v z- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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9 X0 F4 B) T' t( _" x6 Z2 Q* B( a8 t From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
W* d4 ~8 W8 @% a; x: \% z, g, n- 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.
~6 v) ~. S1 I. P- Andrew Heller, IBM
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" e' K8 y( @3 [& l4 ] u c0 v1 rAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
8 l1 J' ^ [# B( k8 p$ S+ B5 y4 E! R- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos4 `7 V1 g" V' D" ?+ a7 d
& n/ i) u; e8 `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.; {% F8 B; V; p* d* p2 e
- Sydney Brenner in 1927, m6 ]& L' n& N7 ]
3 Y+ K( L% M- m; D+ H: N. i3 W$ Z6 hThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
4 n$ ^9 \( Y- ^6 Z9 i) S$ c- Linus Torvalds
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7 J v2 c! ]& W+ 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.
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. U/ Q3 y8 f) D0 p; @Windows is just DOS in drag.
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
/ b7 u4 j" c2 e( T- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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