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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.* f# r+ r; J3 `
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?' n2 M" M. E6 F* t. A5 f0 W6 e; a
- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
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7 q9 M1 I0 C, }* j$ y: T& yThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.. t- ^6 o7 n6 D/ W, [5 K) Z+ R
- B. F. Skinner5 B; x7 ^4 F: j5 Q8 m( B$ O
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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.
( H: B+ G$ a0 k- George Pompidou
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5 p" ~0 M1 K# }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.2 Z) y7 ~. n9 P& g d/ }2 Z
- Anonymous
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$ Q G9 U; G c. VComputers 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.
' \) A2 K6 q! }2 t. ^$ D- Andy Rooney
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4 W; `$ F. Z0 BIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
+ U* f G! v/ l5 g2 }- Richard Power7 |5 p+ x' H: W1 _
* Z/ h2 ^$ Q6 E4 WI think there is a world market for maybe five computers./ m! {% m! O0 \
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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# v( `' ]$ f ZIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
+ u+ S2 z) ]) b, Q/ r/ G( d+ {- Scott Adams
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& F% h! Z6 j; Y3 z+ n0 T- F4 |In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.# V" [; [; u, Y0 W- I4 z6 g
- Anonymous9 h- x+ S* [' k( O
6 W! y! T: x2 x& R! `* rIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.% t5 O3 y9 \1 ?2 [
- Bradley's Bromide! }1 U3 z3 w. X
& h0 i8 U# B3 HThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.$ F% [4 j; C+ D* O `
- 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.8 [+ V) L7 c# j1 i
- Anonymous
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$ Z9 b3 }. b/ j- V1 [There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." Z4 T0 U: A; {- b2 `9 Y6 y1 X% B
- Jeremy S. Anderson) ?5 n+ L/ ?& I- [
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.* k' R! ?1 A+ I
- Elbert Hubbard+ _: Q; O; @7 Q6 s: u8 ]6 Y, }0 X+ z
; X5 F: L: Z; _* Q4 S3 D5 qAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
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$ k0 O8 D ?$ ?7 V% s$ R5 lThose 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.
% Z; N4 r3 D( h- Anonymous
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+ R$ ^/ B8 P* i1 B1 v" H- w, r. H( TSave early, save often.
: B/ l7 Y6 J% O/ }7 R3 j- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word+ u; C0 {5 C, t2 U. j- X( Y- I( g
# ?. H# I! C5 j6 bBuild early and build often.! V) o U1 ? p8 J+ X# r0 F
- Proprietary developer adage2 o. u: [& ^2 }) K
: }, ^! T- C! ~& [: Y) _% @Release early and release often.
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, K' l) b7 ]7 m- v& xWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
) S- j# K b3 F# C- t5 p% s- 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.
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon., d9 ~4 i' A% |8 P
- Jerry Olson- t0 C0 n' t4 f; g6 m
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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., `4 E3 u6 W V m1 `/ p% u
- Porterfield
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.2 C/ p+ n% C0 {2 {2 `
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899* m" A7 f) B/ ], _
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT+ W- @& g" b4 F7 @: E5 A" V- n
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969* N. c& M& I# ?) L/ U
: o, K8 [. L$ W: G$ I u% FAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
4 O; s. T/ F" n2 Q1 Q# t- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.# A6 D1 _5 l! v$ ?' ^/ }
- Gregory Benford5 z9 z) ~/ d3 v3 b0 @+ ^7 C
8 w6 U, M8 v5 yNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
$ L+ r z4 V8 l J, ^- Alan J. Perlis
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.3 p" @* J) u3 ^' l; }
- Thomas Edison6 @1 W) z; b' Z' M) K
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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./ p! p- w' e1 Q a. t4 k7 D3 ~8 f0 q
- 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 developed3 u% N; g f2 C% k1 r
# |+ d7 |+ b. H3 HThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.& z" }2 p: u U: [! r2 Y) p: C
- Senator Bob Dole0 X+ H, n& O! y' O
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.% K( d( j' x+ ]4 q# d
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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! {. R# L0 T; ^ a From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
# ]& m* h6 d4 `( y- {- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy# r" n) q2 Q9 J" C7 ^0 a! [
* a+ S5 @# w8 l1 M. {, e$ tTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes." u( j R' s& e* w2 y
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
/ Y5 z5 L/ A6 E2 A- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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$ z/ J0 x8 V. P9 u. MHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
/ Q5 H$ F7 k0 l! j, v: \/ a) `+ h- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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2 V! t( M4 u3 o u7 QThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.' O2 E* ~- Y, t5 d' m9 k
- Linus Torvalds: G+ x( r: i) L; E: i& r+ K7 B
- L6 m; J7 a+ I9 K( |6 @ ^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.& {: R. A- `. b% Z' A
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, X) _" J/ [' X0 _Windows is just DOS in drag.9 w6 S& K. j" Z2 q$ M
- Anonymous
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, C) F' b: z* r2 E/ X* N: \. u/ GThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.5 A; X4 ~( m9 t9 t0 Q4 G
- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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