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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
9 ^- A0 J( w$ A" u+ Y. P- Andrew S. Tannenbaum; a0 b; O: j! O# w3 f }
' r2 M* ^8 z6 w5 P7 v+ kWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.4 l* z2 x* J4 r
- B. F. Skinner
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- x5 w# ~- @1 l/ L* e% e! _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.0 f2 E/ B- P* k% X
- George Pompidou2 a5 i2 G0 `. |: O7 c7 Z4 c
& V P- ^3 z0 j- L+ S+ F7 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.- K# X5 ~, m# R* {) g4 A
- Anonymous* Y5 q2 R$ V$ S4 @( j, ~0 m& u
3 ^( v5 a+ }$ o, t) gFor 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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+ {) s) B& ]0 Q' M# EComputers 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 E& [8 n$ R: j8 Y6 _* D
- Andy Rooney
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4 M; i: l! a2 Y8 n7 ], R/ v! ]% LIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
* V# y* C( u2 |' y! _# I$ M- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
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. Z& e( [4 e0 R6 f$ \6 d: d: mIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
0 P8 f* u g+ @5 J9 [4 Q- o3 e0 X7 j- Scott Adams1 L1 G( N t4 u
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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.0 b. d/ n5 z' O
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# J* V! F. _, ]2 F8 |If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.0 L8 w/ @2 D( z. n- t% v% H9 q
- Bradley's Bromide# D7 S, s. H' E% ?' @# E
4 b) d) U' z+ Q9 U8 C' U, {) |, J$ hThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
* F" M) _4 y m# O* p- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.6 u2 H+ _! S1 Z3 ]8 ^/ I
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( [* [+ `) q7 z/ O1 EThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
/ G5 b' ?2 @6 q$ p% Z: P- Jeremy S. Anderson F( F1 o$ z& T9 |$ F% ^8 d
4 h' H5 c+ L9 E* @- COne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
* T: F1 E4 a6 Y! F$ N5 F2 c- Elbert Hubbard
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0 F8 e' U7 f# \! `- B4 \6 rAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
( O' Z' [& v+ H& e- David Thornburg
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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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Save early, save often.
1 h' C5 s+ K9 {6 Q( e- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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, i/ I" T7 ^) r2 M; F; ZBuild early and build often.
0 E* x6 ^# w' Y/ t- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often.
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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.
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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 p% ^+ N; P9 Q9 d. ?
- Anonymous; A# w4 @+ G- H4 M) Y8 B
; a2 F9 \$ Q+ K' _. b7 VThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.1 g0 Y# n% L. y4 ]5 Q* R
- Margaret Thatcher
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0 f/ B- d" R7 X% o. UThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
5 v/ e$ a4 |4 _% a: t- Jerry Olson4 l, m# z) v; Q1 I, R( J1 @
+ V& C r3 E" O4 L: U+ @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.
+ a* y+ `7 J* ~- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899$ ^* f- x6 N% N# E# p. s3 Q
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT6 Z' `, V7 X1 P
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
3 S+ l# p9 g) P' E4 a- Arthur C. Clarke
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5 d$ j/ ]& g. C' qAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.# {( ]$ D, K9 r% @+ k) i! d
- Gregory Benford
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.4 z$ ~$ ~2 s% Y7 x3 L1 S2 J0 U
- Alan J. Perlis8 O% }/ A9 E4 v9 N
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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R3 \8 ] p0 ]+ w0 ^Get your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
0 D* ]: E2 I, `9 G( d. K3 Z$ V* Q6 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 developed6 s& c, @4 O$ H5 w, B
7 b- z0 n& w5 D: j! kThe Internet is a great way to get on the net., e0 W* ~6 l4 R$ P( ~; ^6 I
- Senator Bob Dole( g' ^* o9 R7 W% R) P# L
% _* |; t! f% \( w$ B# LComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
- m* L l* l) L; t* q, U, u- Popular Mechanics, 1949 }+ k* h: x* H8 b# z5 p2 G! w
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
- y: h+ g' Y" ~$ n$ r8 c# @5 W. i- 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! W- ], o4 G1 J9 {
- Andrew Heller, IBM8 C# {- F0 |3 y' T0 P" z
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.! M u/ |0 B3 {' H1 ?$ S
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos9 ]5 M W' Y+ q' h+ {
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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.
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! |$ Y, ^+ c" Q' m! |( K+ ^# iThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
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0 T9 @9 ?1 G( FTo 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.% R( T7 o5 A; L. t
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( u: F. E& C: S8 ~' ~, [. NThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.' `( g# y8 Q: t9 r5 z9 ^6 s" }
- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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