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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
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/ {+ |. C! c) `) t0 C j1 PThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.6 U2 ?& S7 Z: n1 g
- B. F. Skinner: L7 f! S+ l2 p! U; W4 b6 `2 [
. n. X `: C1 MThere 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.
, t8 g$ ~ H2 t( |" @- George Pompidou2 L6 v6 u, k) A
p, O7 g3 H* RTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.' I5 u; r, w. r: e7 b* f( v
- 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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) M: A1 c/ D1 V6 j$ }# r* \/ ^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./ R3 k; }; K9 `% l# J$ Y' ^
- Andy Rooney1 @3 B0 B4 W5 K& ? }# c1 t
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.! i1 Y5 J- S/ |1 M8 q0 D) U
- Richard Power
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, i& L$ q' Y- ?% {' lI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
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3 o0 Q. L" Q& ?If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
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/ W6 B7 m+ {' ]) ]In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.4 e9 L% ^+ D5 T8 X. H# Y: i/ I
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.; Y8 e6 x- Y* \# m7 i, x
- Bradley's Bromide
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/ P4 p+ q+ ]4 L5 ~" fThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.5 `' z; F2 q! r) N/ o
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric' B% ]7 A4 F I5 ^ R. G
+ S( ]9 |+ C6 n! }At 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.
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.! R+ r' p1 @, D
- Elbert Hubbard: I8 r) ~1 w! j2 K$ A, _2 [
+ o; o# c/ ^ n$ v# q% Z1 K1 gAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
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# ^5 l$ L5 y5 g7 o5 B: d zThose 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.8 g# @% Q- c! d/ S' p# N
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2 W+ R) C% I0 j9 \$ S( VSave early, save often.$ X; z# N+ w1 q/ s. T/ R
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word' u- N% G' g" A( t# G
' ^# y Z ~& ] U3 FBuild early and build often.
+ l4 Y+ [) b& m* L! o- Proprietary developer adage
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- [' o3 @0 h% w% d" e; J0 tRelease early and release often.9 U) l8 A1 F3 ~! H
- Open source developer adage
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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.3 c8 t0 o9 H" b
- Carl Sagan
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8 U% ?9 r: H Y- _6 eIf 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. ?5 |* T) E+ ^, O# E
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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.
F) ?6 }. y. @8 e8 ?) w2 q5 n% S- Margaret Thatcher
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
+ O# N0 x; X4 E: t' q$ t- 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.
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Everything that can be invented has been invented./ _% O1 p" U7 ^6 p
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 18994 T1 G5 Z! M a% C4 [- q
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT8 b1 L1 T4 _2 z
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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% {9 r) O; k$ I: r# I) a1 h: XAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.! j: i( v& l% G: g6 Z6 H7 E
- Arthur C. Clarke8 Q, y8 `) ^5 x4 d! ]" b
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.. Q9 X7 G, r ?" W' S! a, `
- Gregory Benford/ n5 F3 g% j+ y3 j1 y* G
0 B9 g8 b" \7 d h% k( |Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.9 c) U7 O7 Q! h6 O
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.4 K# c4 G1 n, Q. c" Y
- Alan J. Perlis" X, w2 }4 V, i: f) S" b# J7 f6 L( p
! B+ z" K4 w* T8 y# G5 Q2 d9 D* CI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
( e8 `" _6 @, x* V& _4 {2 {1 }- Thomas Edison/ e x: b( L! A
c1 U: ]6 j( @% I* H, KGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.+ p/ ~& N0 K6 M7 {
- 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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' l( }5 H4 i- u8 @9 `- YThe Internet is a great way to get on the net./ |+ C; Q$ q5 |9 b/ T" h4 t$ }5 _: M' @5 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.
9 k3 }2 x) j) X% _- a- Popular Mechanics, 1949) g* j* n( G% t1 w1 N. A% u
5 T) m& k2 G6 h2 D From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
5 z4 u5 { x% Y" M6 M6 P- 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.
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.. `& y# ~: k2 a! B: y
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9 K) z% j) o9 Z$ [6 UHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
0 c+ j; P& L+ |, A' [" L- Al Gore on Y2K
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' F' ?7 t+ ~) @) ?7 y8 @The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.4 d$ S& z* k+ y+ s# u
- 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.
5 C5 O! R. q) V6 N' 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.
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Windows is just DOS in drag.
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+ V2 e9 p7 L: {; l8 KThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.- L" K7 n0 p1 S0 }8 s3 X
- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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