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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.9 V: \1 `- o$ m5 \# Z5 K
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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5 M n: I# B# k8 @9 Y4 q/ }2 r1 XWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
U/ P( o1 @; G- q) c6 H( T/ x6 {6 }- T.S. Elliot
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' b; b# u7 A! j: A Z640K ought to be enough for anybody.
+ S$ A4 j0 E: B0 ? |- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.1 Y2 a! B. e" u) v6 ?0 h. E
- 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.7 u: Y1 R5 u" z7 g! r0 Y" L, r
- George Pompidou
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2 w9 Q. z. N \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., U7 O# E# B/ z7 E3 T) @
- Anonymous
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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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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.
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.4 @9 q) K% n. j6 J& A0 v- P7 G0 }
- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
; f! _5 Y8 m6 ? _" l& t+ s' D- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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% P9 p: [; K* R B; p, y' _If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
( a1 B. n, z5 n$ W: ?0 O$ \3 B$ z- Scott Adams
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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.+ F1 O% S/ X, g) o
- Anonymous# ^0 S! i! m! P6 K! \: p, s
. Q0 u2 k, [# T4 b1 V+ x) i9 b1 F# EIf 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.6 B1 L2 ~5 _! K% W6 K5 S8 _$ l
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric5 h0 Z7 u- d7 P1 X
- e0 y8 K/ ?6 G8 ]! Z" HAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
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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.2 @* N+ r; `/ n
- 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.
6 F* T" n( T- x# l' M1 Z8 z- Elbert Hubbard
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6 P1 C5 e) G7 b, y `; d, L5 WAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.9 \6 G- w0 f9 }) F n" ]
- David Thornburg
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( w( M) w( O/ J4 t2 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.
4 d: }4 f7 e: P3 U- Anonymous
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Save early, save often.
% _/ a2 b! o3 Z! Q- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word4 G' Y/ Y$ F5 X, \4 n. `1 } z
1 t& |9 E# F' N/ ABuild early and build often.
: [ l& u! j' h7 G8 x& o \- Proprietary developer adage4 W y* ] n+ u9 o" p
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Release early and release often., |( d4 f" |) q+ ~ @8 K( z# ~
- Open source developer adage' V5 L* L8 n# n2 E1 H& ]- V: S
p( \: V2 g, w3 jWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
4 d3 S- u7 Y: U2 j" \0 y1 ?- Carl Sagan8 H8 J3 L" } ^( a
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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.& L8 B/ I$ G# r! l, L6 K
- Anonymous! B( s6 _4 a5 h7 ~
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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.2 }7 s K4 U: F2 d6 g' D- x
- Margaret Thatcher, M, \) L+ ^& ?6 {. k. `% V M5 n4 k
; j+ E I! X4 k3 n) p# t1 QThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
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9 x- O3 S5 y9 q3 L/ X8 Q& d1 G: b( mThe 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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Q/ g) O( }% l/ S9 V( V8 zEverything that can be invented has been invented.
) ]3 |' n2 t* {" T5 Y- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT% n Y- J) {3 S( h1 `3 [; V
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969; i' F" i2 B# W( ]
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.1 v& y- |8 c/ N: ^0 l
- Arthur C. Clarke
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P! C9 @0 X& h' p9 N1 ^Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.- _* z8 t- D7 _1 _# K3 x$ H
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* N2 I- q. C, Z* P3 N) GNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.
( x; o! K2 _+ d, ^7 O- Anonymous
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.6 c4 p) l7 s0 w
- Alan J. Perlis& W3 F! Y6 }( ^0 b7 T
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
$ _# F5 o" ]. J( l) G! x4 N* w- g- Thomas Edison2 d) w/ I; X* f7 X- O# _
6 ^6 V4 y7 X8 G; ZGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.$ `4 e4 [9 S2 W
- 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 developed9 x1 y/ v1 A# I. K8 ]
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- Senator Bob Dole5 P8 {+ ~6 K2 a6 R/ x$ k7 z
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
" T9 x8 `. G4 \- Popular Mechanics, 19499 [* k" I0 h3 V5 D/ b5 i" d- e |. n
q7 x7 U. f: J8 }7 S' C& { From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
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- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.- J( ]( i# V; j+ ^* U8 z
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos5 @ T/ m% M. q; L1 j5 Z
/ s7 I* }& A; F: @8 A: |; H' PHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
% p1 v% z+ S/ @, s- Al Gore on Y2K
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
* c9 J" ^9 F+ k6 i9 S" q' d- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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/ A5 |6 |) _; Z9 D' t: d+ L0 [The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.8 x# @# C: \- I! a) J0 s% O
- Linus Torvalds- z6 j, B# b1 Q. y8 q( C
8 f6 W4 U5 s) f- yTo 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.# c3 T( V! t4 U4 L+ H: t
- Linus Torvalds
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4 K9 d/ D: r7 j2 I0 X! H: K; _5 JWindows is just DOS in drag.
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
) }; l5 E I, T# H( g8 R( y- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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