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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?
6 w. e4 ^/ q2 Y6 H l) b. C- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
" H# `# t, t4 C4 Z- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981& M5 f& S/ f* J- q
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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& Z' {) p0 Q* u% `4 L4 l/ w1 uThere 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.: g2 T! n# B ^; Y) c0 S; [- }+ w
- George Pompidou4 Y& D3 m# X* n( a0 I, p& l
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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." y1 d+ I7 L: |$ b/ n) `! Q+ ]
- Anonymous+ \) i& R# ^/ V3 g% S
3 f+ k+ t$ Z7 I- e1 p: Y$ i& A! \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.! u' _4 i8 U. r6 H* p# C
- Anonymous$ ]( A" K& M1 v( _# o( u$ T
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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.* ~& e- ]0 I `& ]% E: F
- Andy Rooney4 B% x' d4 D+ ^2 k
& W: h$ j8 M! T7 U2 f& DIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.$ \( O" N& x5 i# j! W5 G2 ?8 h- c
- Richard Power$ e/ h2 S0 {" z4 X- {
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.. ^4 t0 k$ Q2 ~$ D& R
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
: C3 C, _' a$ g2 f- 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.+ L/ J4 q2 ]/ Q
- Anonymous2 c8 k4 o g* _$ e$ I& C
# h9 j! k6 [- a' p+ xIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.* d- u& Z( y& s' s! a
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$ q+ u9 t! i& o1 o- H& e' bThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
, |" S# @+ ?: d0 ^- 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.! b3 ~# Z3 G1 M N9 y* F
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% ^8 I" \" N k% x6 P$ GThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.7 W {5 z" L( G0 n {
- Jeremy S. Anderson C: G' D+ N- S% S% f! s7 Q
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
8 D. X4 [7 {: h- Elbert Hubbard# L& {4 M+ R& P# d+ z. B1 ^4 b7 V8 q
+ w+ Z/ a5 U; zAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
( W: ?: ]5 P, J) U- 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.. @; T) \$ K9 O0 m" |
- Anonymous
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Save early, save often.
; X/ o" S" X- M3 t! J3 \- n- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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$ H' [, b H! d/ u. Z, j5 e5 [Build early and build often.* y* r P0 E9 ^* C# w; T
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Release early and release often.0 d! Q# H' B6 C5 Y m
- Open source developer adage& l) K' m9 N% t- P2 e6 a l3 c3 d3 r
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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.
+ N- Q6 Q+ T0 c5 d! e/ f' r3 u- Carl Sagan
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0 S$ L$ v h4 l9 iIf 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.
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
& ?; y) r. l6 \& d; S: k- Jerry Olson. E9 E9 Q( v1 T9 \
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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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5 j8 O1 a) j* \5 MEverything that can be invented has been invented.
4 _8 L R/ t" j- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899" j" Z) q& ]- x6 k4 |% t2 D
% _' ?; F7 e2 b% M7 ]9 AGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT( T" J5 d& l, E' z$ X
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969# \6 _" H1 b+ y) o% ^# Q5 t0 N+ ^
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
7 T7 L/ V+ _0 b+ U$ B9 x; N- X/ ? c& m- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
; `9 @ ?5 S% f' X, ?9 s$ X {7 M- Gregory Benford
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.4 s& O2 P3 X ?4 y
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8 v h9 M- s0 _2 N% A# ZA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
) Y' s0 j4 r. Y2 o `* K3 W1 t- Alan J. Perlis
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.. `1 m- s z y/ J' t b
- 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.
8 x% S$ B5 l# {- 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% U \5 _# t2 p* d6 m8 b
8 d& }- x) h! Z1 r0 v4 `1 f% @% aThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
4 i$ t* W6 v, ?6 B3 N/ P ?- Senator Bob Dole
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/ z. b: C/ N8 [+ J' q& M2 \Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
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- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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; e5 l( V) ^: ?- ]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.
4 b; h5 ^$ X- @' D$ k- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos- \! ^: f, z2 V1 F! a' |
% R( t. M9 {( g* h+ `& Q0 ZHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?: A9 Y7 {8 D0 C! i
- Al Gore on Y2K
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+ P3 M7 R+ ^/ @ q" lThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.: D0 Z" X9 u* ]) i+ l
- Sydney Brenner in 19275 I- K# ?6 w" n/ H6 ~) R! p/ L$ q
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The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it., r: X. i" ~" Q6 G0 W; P% N3 V: I
- Linus Torvalds7 Z. \4 }+ w( V# n7 N, k7 x
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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.4 G9 E# n; F+ @. v+ D& f, N
- Linus Torvalds7 w7 \ \7 y& F0 D' N
/ R$ L$ J0 {/ H& h) W' oWindows is just DOS in drag.) g% c* ?1 n5 \& R
- Anonymous
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.4 _. m$ i( B" _2 O3 i- k0 N2 s
- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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