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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
! l" D: i; k; o3 ^, D$ D8 f- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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9 n k3 M8 j R uWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?* ]$ a. V; R! Y; C9 q2 x+ u6 f" A
- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody. x( q. N* ?2 w
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981: q6 Z) ~/ p" { T6 e+ [
, }7 a# q* j& Z% |( `The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.# p) @0 [8 K9 b! N* b2 d
- B. F. Skinner
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" V% {+ J+ @ M$ V, CThere 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.
! r& M! s5 S0 o' V O- F- George Pompidou
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+ W; T: m9 z" w# ~7 t' j3 @3 Q; s/ ^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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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. n* J( J* a7 ~ k3 S
- Andy Rooney3 a( T1 P" R h# x; O
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
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# H/ y0 _3 H4 U5 AI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
- I/ X8 g, I9 @/ J- Scott Adams1 i" C H5 e! T1 G X% s& c. j
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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.( k4 n( h$ ]6 A p0 Q% q
- Anonymous
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) B7 p2 ~+ [ }4 g" V7 W$ lIf 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.& ~- D4 a7 V# C' s7 f
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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" d$ I4 }+ D8 W4 B X" t* wAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
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/ n$ d7 ]4 P& b' eThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.7 [" n2 Z* N1 O K
- 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.
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.! k; {+ S7 b3 p t4 [
- David Thornburg
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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.% G7 y% t/ K+ C' D$ Q
- Anonymous# B- F4 ~2 e3 p" `, S
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Save early, save often.
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Build early and build often.6 q8 B% r1 j) u. M* s
- Proprietary developer adage; L$ F6 l {% t6 Y2 R/ M
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Release early and release often.
% Q4 H( p+ {9 i4 C- 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.
0 t8 z7 F; V% j$ N- 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.
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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.% B3 @9 U6 m; K+ ~
- Margaret Thatcher. D/ F( ?+ w5 r/ L0 g5 i- `
; f" E# ]" w* ^1 I2 u) p/ GThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
2 @: h8 d `; `# @; C: R, s- Jerry Olson
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$ h1 {) q$ N, X9 E. vThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.( e' b' w* D1 H/ _0 h# O
- Porterfield
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
: b* o' D4 s! f: F- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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$ G+ C& M" `! Z- sGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT1 f3 Q; _& l/ |8 c
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969! Q! h' ]: P2 S8 H. j* N! S$ X
( o- ~7 H% K6 l5 ^* x5 N0 tAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.# k1 h2 R7 Q" X, [: i1 x' H7 d$ H
- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
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( t. F$ ~) S: D+ b* a9 h( ANever let a computer know you're in a hurry.2 Z; B2 w) K* `1 H
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
* A% C& {# }4 W/ }" O& |( ?- Alan J. Perlis: E2 v7 K8 f$ N! z
7 [' d- R( S- a# M9 S3 Y' PI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.+ ^; S# v6 v+ Z8 z! v
- Thomas Edison
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Get your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
* K0 G' e' @- j D; l1 ?% X- 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$ B2 n, @: S5 e1 G; P L3 N
6 ^: B1 z' ^: L9 e/ J# CThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.0 i, i, D+ ?& O2 `4 G! U
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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* q5 T) B& H: w& A: O% u6 W From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.5 [- W/ n J2 C
- 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.
5 I) c" [4 E" \, Z- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.6 c% D5 C5 B/ q# w
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos' ~2 G/ ^! p' O- @0 ~
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How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?, l* N3 L% Q; w4 B# j8 \1 J" Z4 b( c
- Al Gore on Y2K
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; ~8 q; C; z% @4 U( _The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.; R+ p$ g- g2 V5 ^+ P* A, ?
- Sydney Brenner in 1927" A; L1 b3 N6 c/ p9 x" f9 O
+ n6 x, j* t0 a2 K& WThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.( L m I# i' j4 v0 q" I6 b4 A
- Linus Torvalds" a/ |$ t8 m2 L0 q5 \
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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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- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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