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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.5 h. J9 {) w6 ]" a
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum$ I& }) W$ C# [- b8 w' f$ q7 x
6 C' a: D. R) X3 C" W3 z. y3 bWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
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( Y1 ]8 j+ N. K7 v9 ]0 L7 V/ X) z640K ought to be enough for anybody.6 L ?* a% }. d* u& s: Q
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981" \/ C3 Y; b% ~# W. k( ~! i
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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.
; \0 t E% D- w( X# ?# Y) Z# ]- George Pompidou
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! p4 b9 a, B$ [4 ?( _5 k9 U) fTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.5 s2 N& ]' O/ H& Z! `+ M
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+ z0 n6 P8 c2 X1 `" r8 u- y! R) ~) N" W# RFor 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.9 O* S" G! H* i8 g4 Z
- Anonymous
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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.
9 A& m) k" v7 {" c7 M2 m- Andy Rooney
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6 C5 G- @% E3 X9 vIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.' H/ k$ {4 M9 s4 s- a8 P2 L
- Richard Power3 d) {7 d0 E/ C' S- |% R: r
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
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, i0 n5 z* W2 H$ HIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done., R- ?% y6 q7 z# M/ \
- Scott Adams* B; J2 |8 q* D
0 q7 z' o" [; _3 U: C3 w/ @- L9 vIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.7 I0 S" E$ w8 \8 ]( A8 j, n
- Anonymous
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.8 g+ r3 n. O8 a0 C2 y& t5 Q" Q; N
- Bradley's Bromide
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.! Z! w6 u Q- i/ h0 {3 B
- 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.
! | b3 B+ |& T M6 n- Anonymous
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' n5 F' c7 ?3 k0 \4 y% l$ pThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
- h$ P; c: a2 o$ `5 v- Jeremy S. Anderson
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0 t' K8 {5 ^5 i& j: U7 j0 i0 vOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.( o2 w: |: P! g
- Elbert Hubbard
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- S: ?: V: s' a" y2 mAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be./ b- N8 ]; T5 ?: E$ Q* v
- David Thornburg
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) L5 m) L( s, @5 x, UThose 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.$ h3 x6 h( Q$ \
- Anonymous
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Save early, save often.+ o$ h) U1 u2 o; b
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word7 t3 B) a" C+ w8 ^+ N" g! d' X
/ C. w2 G) u$ x' U) m5 O/ DBuild early and build often.$ V$ q& y* ~5 Q- p
- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often.
6 }) w1 ~: V& m0 P- r" ^- Open source developer adage
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2 b1 @' a3 ~, C1 s' m7 Z4 @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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) l% S! c. j! b5 G$ aIf 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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F. B0 ]! F( F8 ?' DThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them. a& H* V6 K& R8 N @& X
- Margaret Thatcher, G1 j3 N+ V% F4 f
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
2 d; U* }" M4 b) J/ \" e) S( F- Jerry Olson# I7 g. y2 S6 C+ T+ ^5 y0 ?- L
. u8 Q" A/ U; c* \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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9 ~1 a) U% r5 U* y% V/ |9 C$ F0 pEverything that can be invented has been invented.
9 B) K# g& p& S, j+ U- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
6 P- r! `4 L2 @: k) L0 o- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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. `2 f* x0 @: NAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.6 B* B4 i4 w) N/ V& v
- Arthur C. Clarke
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C" x8 s4 X; F2 Y7 ~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.6 s) l* x4 Q" w9 E! R* u
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
1 W$ t3 }' F, l+ v2 _2 r- Alan J. Perlis
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.2 h' W6 c1 L$ O9 g( f; P
- Thomas Edison1 {! H* r8 J# u* w/ y' P/ P' `
" [5 `" r/ Q* x1 J; x6 hGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.% N. k- k4 y7 B% z! ?; r
- 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
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net./ h; U0 e! W/ t3 j3 r
- 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 |! \$ ~! y4 g2 O( u9 N- Z
- Popular Mechanics, 1949: c) G8 o s" _$ ]$ f% o# a* x
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.8 @( z2 H3 G- h# H, [
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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& u$ e- d; x7 c8 @) O bTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
" \* Y1 W$ T, |1 E2 H$ `- Andrew Heller, IBM; Y% C# @8 C6 h4 u8 I; @5 ~' j
. O2 H. Y0 S$ M; J& w2 T) tAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
5 ^( k2 y( u, i( D! S5 a- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos+ [$ E( C3 J( g4 }6 j
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How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?, E9 }' l s! j. r% ^
- Al Gore on Y2K
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
1 _8 _# E1 o( b/ D1 D9 Q$ h- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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$ e( ^, b$ D5 D% w! W4 M" W. C$ mThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
# N0 J6 i) C& s- Linus Torvalds
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3 Z6 ~. f/ p7 ?; y, { z+ R2 n0 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.1 n% P! y' e5 |: x0 ?/ W' p3 C
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Windows is just DOS in drag.
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
) ^% n; V! D7 p' _- z' F$ Y3 P- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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