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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.* ~, H( Y/ G, p( @# G
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum1 n) I0 M* J0 D
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
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. s9 R& `! }2 w* u. d640K ought to be enough for anybody.% G" l$ S$ p. H6 J o
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 19812 \3 U% ~! B8 j9 h, H
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
2 X, V$ A% f6 {$ v. S4 D6 ~: ]3 x- 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.
5 P! H( b4 n( J; K' ^/ V" ?- George Pompidou( a5 o+ R) X# H7 ^' i
2 M, O2 ~2 e9 G0 e. iTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.8 e5 b5 N. v S+ @
- Anonymous
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+ q9 B2 H* w1 ?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.* Y1 L' A* C( Q) b
- 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.5 y* Z: \1 {' c5 i/ M9 A, R
- Andy Rooney$ K5 j/ J7 X. k" G& l. E
. y$ @5 I* B: o1 ~4 g2 W" j4 hIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.2 }+ H6 G% y B
- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.5 z. h! {( }, E2 r6 d- P
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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/ Z; z w. a% x" U- mIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
% G( s" c$ h# I- p/ i- Scott Adams
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5 Q5 K- y. i& d* g0 l9 w" PIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
- \. S' y/ T1 l$ i$ |- Bradley's Bromide
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
3 r" Q8 M* c0 @: G R2 k- 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.
- y8 _5 L/ I( m- Anonymous
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. Q0 b9 p: r6 j8 {( b* XThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
. v, c( w7 N( k1 V3 A7 m$ N4 d- Jeremy S. Anderson+ v$ q( ]( m h9 y
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." o" t, B+ S$ U% D4 t! S
- Elbert Hubbard5 j4 z% B4 `0 m: t1 Z ?
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.' K7 E* p9 t' A. {
- David Thornburg
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C- `6 M7 C/ r) [9 E$ P/ S6 b( V+ W" ` yThose 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.+ M" l1 ^( ?5 I) f% `9 ]; N9 |, h) u2 [
- Anonymous
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Save early, save often.' B4 g9 B4 G; { ?) h: o
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word( k S' t r: j* V
; \& x% ]; d: f* v7 QBuild early and build often.+ ~$ h8 H4 v+ [- ]5 ]
- Proprietary developer adage. A/ c% b# K$ A: E* C6 f
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Release early and release often.( R/ j. b$ x6 G- _
- Open source developer adage3 C/ N1 N1 x( q& E& g+ A
- I# K2 Q' }, WWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology." K: Q6 _" u" W$ ^) \9 |
- 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.# V a3 K8 x! P" \8 r9 e5 [
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1 |; R- o$ h# U; FThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
0 G9 Y" i# c8 N* h0 G! v- Margaret Thatcher. H& E- q7 o; |3 p' H0 ~9 B
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
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h2 x" Y1 v8 W3 g* ZThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.7 D4 ]: S* Z1 U7 z# r. {0 P
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$ m- ~9 \7 K" U. W& D5 KEverything that can be invented has been invented.
# a+ [1 T! c$ a- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969& ~. c5 Y& v' Q. v
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
6 k6 M& i9 J- p2 h% _- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
# ?( I7 z; F9 j$ K& S- Gregory Benford: v r& P* _4 j9 Q9 z
" ]: v# M9 F4 `' O5 R2 s& q9 L3 dNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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0 Y R/ t$ V# Z* [( _! XA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
) a2 L; b( o- d1 W' t& w' ~- Alan J. Perlis
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, ]0 n$ R5 y7 g+ TI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
; ~5 x9 p: o4 c W' i$ D- Thomas Edison
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8 I& P E, f/ f3 TGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
! [9 h5 `9 s- p! L& S- 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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8 s- e% Z. i3 X3 ]6 W) R8 {The Internet is a great way to get on the net. `# ^$ E: O* @4 k
- Senator Bob Dole2 ]' q- ~' _5 z3 X5 x
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
. B* z1 X/ c6 W! i) T1 M1 Z7 d( @, o- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it. N( C" k% o- w; u2 y; D( q( G& R7 |
- 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.
8 b }; c6 L+ B! I% G2 l) }$ c9 f- Andrew Heller, IBM
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: Z& ?; x6 \2 @' [9 ~5 MAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.; y( n8 r$ N) T: K* x8 V! }
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos y; j2 R" ]8 B; B6 w. _
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How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?" C6 r- Z. a2 P6 {$ s$ S
- Al Gore on Y2K
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.- J3 s' B& @0 y6 ^. G _. `
- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.6 x0 L) p& G0 u8 D& @; H
- Linus Torvalds
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To 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.- X! T# K) G/ M: C: v7 w6 i
- Linus Torvalds
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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.
- h$ w# Q' @1 r! W0 K- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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