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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
1 I2 C( r/ G0 G; D- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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, A* ?# Q4 H8 HWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?1 r; A: [/ \' @1 g/ n
- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.; W f) m# Y6 l( A0 b0 C
- 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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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.7 m2 d% \" X* U+ ?/ g" ]
- George Pompidou6 ^6 _! V# X! E5 {, f9 g
" ^6 f- ^5 m8 G( nTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.. b4 w3 ^" A( f! E
- Anonymous/ j! K7 ?, I1 f- F) i$ e
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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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/ c& S3 x4 z" ~# C6 V& K& ^# LComputers 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.6 x& O3 }% O; V" j1 b
- Andy Rooney
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" B( n9 C4 _% r2 K1 AIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.5 {0 i! q+ H) u' L: ]0 v
- Richard Power: W; |/ `+ V" w+ g
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
" t; Z1 e3 d# M; e# d- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943+ k/ Z9 _( `) `3 s$ p/ }
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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.. r T) O9 w+ w2 \8 ?$ k
- Anonymous
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.% ]( @% A f: T: ]/ ~
- Bradley's Bromide4 d" o4 n6 M( z# B/ G$ g* X
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
. ^! [# y$ \' i k+ q- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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3 B8 R& F6 E# s; m* l6 SAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.! Z" B' a4 J/ m9 g$ t
- 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.
! _& M3 k. g# J8 Z4 [7 a- 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.
+ ^# k5 S9 t" F# l; A- Elbert Hubbard0 @: d+ x U6 t( X# B
4 Z2 d4 i; z `6 X8 v7 X1 JAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
5 |! _% A" P# {# ~& [- David Thornburg; [& k& V3 ?$ @$ _! f. }
0 s0 r7 j- r* S9 H) E) J0 @/ t' iThose 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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. q4 T6 y9 s9 dSave early, save often.& W5 N# ]/ L0 o. F- l
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often.0 _3 k+ f8 Q& G6 N" s# P& T- t
- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often.
( m6 W; h! s6 k$ s- I' S8 |- Open source developer adage' k- J* [& a: e/ \7 O
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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., _" Q) u8 F( D& \) [, e
- Carl Sagan9 p" Q0 l* p5 S3 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.
8 l% q8 [' D8 C. D% ]- 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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( L: L! E( L4 t( c9 H" r2 x, [The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.6 U% O6 J, m, e0 H% _) j
- Jerry Olson @- l$ [. \# z1 ^0 \; W$ h
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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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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
* K& c/ ?( i* P0 O! ?, D" C- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899, q9 j2 o* R. C L! e% Y
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- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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. q* _/ N8 e7 A2 J8 gAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
^/ ?- a- n/ A4 ?3 }- L L6 X- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.* X2 Q$ h* v) }" S$ o* V5 a6 r
- Anonymous3 A1 P6 E% u8 D; o/ }# C
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.# e3 n! ?9 u; n5 ]- |' W2 y) j! C) e
- Alan J. Perlis" Q7 _- W" \, l4 b
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
; |2 _- |# L# k& e% Y- Thomas Edison
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$ P3 h' @# T5 @3 v2 {( lGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.8 }- [" L8 b7 @3 _! }3 z }& 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 developed7 s; H8 M( o+ A
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
- ~8 g( i, c; B" e) G2 T- Senator Bob Dole
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9 |( H1 w! C" h: H2 h9 MComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
B" m; B9 U& N$ Z8 W$ |2 [- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
% O+ S. A1 ^8 n: S, c a- 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.
3 q' C; \) w5 z, |: ~- Andrew Heller, IBM
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' J& ~$ x' k1 S0 ?7 t! }AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
- t8 v @1 O5 p- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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4 ]. m; n' S, ~0 o5 y uHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft? V2 Z' J- T: u, m
- Al Gore on Y2K* y3 Q* |6 @3 L7 F2 x) R
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent." y" B6 r# ?0 c7 c+ E( L
- Sydney Brenner in 19274 n8 \& y; ^0 s. c3 J0 @ i
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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 M- ?& s! @! x! i! z6 w. u% X- Linus Torvalds
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9 B# f; G3 C, 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.6 z8 d; z/ F: K4 p5 [' o5 X; F; \
- Linus Torvalds
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Windows is just DOS in drag.& s: c2 S8 y% c Q3 c) p6 D1 ~1 @
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+ S' P3 b2 f8 K, N, S) PThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
. a9 U! h1 u$ O H6 E- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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