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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.' _0 ]% q5 U; @$ S1 ^! C t
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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$ V% \, C5 r% u2 ?" D5 C i6 d: JWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
4 ^7 W7 E, C# N- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.. X7 T7 O6 P0 v
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.7 J" O) R% {3 N5 B3 a2 |
- 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.8 [" x0 a4 f* T% J9 Q8 d
- George Pompidou3 z" K' c f# O9 c' T- Y( z
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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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4 e/ ~/ X5 x0 ?% s6 G( K" E+ {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.! `% W0 u+ E! n" v+ K
- 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 N# m. }! ^9 L9 u2 o+ \- X
- Andy Rooney
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.4 @4 T+ ~$ S3 k& Q
- Richard Power" d' s8 g5 P% h7 n& |
- M8 n. I; Z2 u3 W9 EI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.+ c' e* I9 ]! A+ G
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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/ r$ K+ w% ~8 cIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
6 r) I6 ~" N+ n- `+ F- Scott Adams- K$ v7 M3 F* |) W& E
8 l, b9 k$ b5 r6 z8 qIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.9 s4 R2 d8 B3 D, R
- 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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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.4 V+ a" y6 K' w. M( d/ G
- 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.8 `' q1 h4 L: k* K% r
- Anonymous
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2 j; o2 [0 T6 Y) W8 Q$ X8 nThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.3 a: l5 J! K; ]0 z
- Jeremy S. Anderson5 c$ Z: e( _9 R. C. R/ k& ^
3 {" j4 Q$ X/ XOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.' U6 m9 k O ?; \2 z) b
- Elbert Hubbard5 S3 f& k) M2 X D2 @- f
$ R( C, {; S# R. D, t, E: {( eAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.4 Q+ |9 |# Y7 _. u7 I" @
- David Thornburg2 ?; k3 C2 M- ^" F! o; j" }
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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.( z" r( s' O, z+ I" m$ j% ]
- Anonymous0 M/ e: X9 h# u) A
1 e! n* }8 V+ X' QSave early, save often.
. }: }! v! K6 ^8 {8 \2 T- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word Z- f! w; C" `4 Z3 j) y }, i
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Build early and build often.2 X D, D, c8 s4 `- V; B
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Release early and release often.
0 P. ]/ {2 y0 l' Q: u- Open source developer adage5 d2 [. K1 a; q5 E; F3 H9 M! t8 d0 \
! J( F) V. x6 e/ J3 ?! uWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology." e9 n/ y' X, t, s& o
- Carl Sagan
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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.7 l V2 u' |+ v% N
- Anonymous4 Z1 \+ c% z# |0 P9 a' A" h
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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.' `, [" E/ X, r0 \1 Q$ d/ I5 n- T
- Margaret Thatcher# P8 ]2 M! }- l* S* Q* D/ |$ c9 G
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
& x2 K P7 w9 O- I; |: K- 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.: g M# \) a0 k! R9 N+ `
- Porterfield
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% T5 I9 Q! I$ J4 xEverything that can be invented has been invented.
3 ^8 ? [: e5 y5 F7 W3 Q) z) X- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899: {- O) u- A3 p2 |$ ~- Y
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
+ R7 t. n% d; e- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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; @8 X3 x9 |& N2 W8 e C TAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
8 N( w. \% o% L+ @5 J- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.5 l u! b3 B: G7 i1 i5 J
- Gregory Benford
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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d. F% K2 ^7 e& f, r4 ZA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
/ I4 d2 A, c" K! @" v2 q- Alan J. Perlis
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: J# n) T4 H2 k" p- k4 l& SI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
7 x( D. z; k$ D! T6 v- Thomas Edison
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% m, R' `5 Q0 u( t/ ?) \8 jGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
6 L; }& ~$ A$ ^% c- 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 P- ~9 N0 c [: A; |2 I9 [
2 X* L, `. {8 wThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.. O2 M8 b0 ]4 z
- Senator Bob Dole1 V4 j" y' I y
$ I4 `5 \2 k# s" V% zComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.* ^0 B$ P( m3 }9 u$ L0 L* O& Y' b
- Popular Mechanics, 1949) r" D; }/ G+ P( h# H/ x
8 G9 F8 z5 K( C. p6 L5 v: {- m3 g. ] From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.7 C: M2 f1 E* R s B
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy/ b2 U- ?: \- p7 q& H
. w; @1 [* n6 z& {Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
" K, _) V. f$ Z' p d7 E- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
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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.
" j1 F$ X! h' j0 r9 N- Sydney Brenner in 1927/ y/ E; P" b0 K
! s# a9 D% _- H% g# |! W5 ^The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.: y* f# ]" K! v- D0 a& T; G
- Linus Torvalds
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% t$ o" P9 Z* {7 k/ d: H/ U& DTo 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.* |7 A/ {/ b: \
- Linus Torvalds; ?9 z- c7 E( F, k& x, _
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Windows is just DOS in drag.) D8 n# u& I" f1 v3 v
- Anonymous3 h' _5 r+ h* E1 j3 s* G6 Y: U3 L( D
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
' [7 Y, p; A6 `4 Q: B; I1 ?- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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