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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
, S( {% V# H. G. u. l# C, B- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
9 o0 t% }( V2 @& V: b- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
; C& K) i, b8 M: |- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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8 A' j1 D \4 a1 `0 k/ [The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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7 N9 g' T5 _: b0 q: J; V* BThere 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.
. g4 x" ~, U* x% j' M8 U3 U. @- George Pompidou
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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.; L7 }& I3 s6 B5 f2 H4 k$ U
- 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.+ ~" M. S* D1 p0 M) I( M2 b
- Anonymous
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2 d! H4 B6 P0 [7 A8 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.& B" B) v' m. V/ A0 {6 U8 [
- Andy Rooney
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers./ D% G( W8 A5 {$ s7 J
- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.* B6 ]! v# T; \# y
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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6 I% y0 ^. n2 X9 _If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.* O7 b$ y+ T7 J2 `
- Scott Adams* ^# ~, C u- Q5 w/ W
/ A( a! e; E) I- C' i9 D3 F vIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
0 U2 Y. h' {& u& g- Anonymous
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6 ?9 G5 x: ?3 h# UIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.% Y$ t# M6 J: X% g Y
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.* [$ G+ k4 Q: Q$ u( s3 G0 K
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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! V& c/ [5 d0 n$ z2 x$ i3 b# CAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
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0 F2 K1 G/ F. c5 }( z0 UThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.' m0 q: c$ |9 y: H" m; j
- Jeremy S. Anderson
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+ Z1 ?5 |) Z+ K% ~5 Y( q6 k- M& @One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.& \6 L, I* ?' X# I. r0 b* ?
- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
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. l. n! \: V9 v3 h4 Q6 ]( I4 jThose 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.1 ?4 K% ~& \0 T% N1 o# N+ d) ?
- Anonymous
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Save early, save often./ @4 ~ s* X& m% m# T# |
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often.
7 K9 }/ Y1 K: T2 |9 \) W# P, [1 S- Proprietary developer adage
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) P9 R% _ }) D1 [Release early and release often.5 @. H$ G& c" t9 P# [$ H
- Open source developer adage
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. H: X9 Z: H/ ]2 j- o9 J( J0 s& E+ ?We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.; z9 C' i1 L7 |0 i- \
- Carl Sagan8 X7 g0 |1 d; z5 t2 @
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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., `6 f I4 M. ^% n
- Anonymous
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( I ~: P6 M* N l( ^There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.* ?: a* }; r! E8 E8 B3 z
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon./ Y9 g1 r$ ~; ]
- 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.2 M6 }/ U$ R1 }/ l L" P
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 18996 g8 @9 k! Z* a
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" N( i _% U+ P- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.7 C: }7 _; W* a# w7 M. h
- Arthur C. Clarke
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; F& G/ d4 x _/ h8 Q" GAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.( y0 D8 C- ^% ^% a
- Gregory Benford
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! c: Y/ V( E. Q% W' cNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.8 p% b, r7 X7 G+ E% J8 d: A5 j1 c
- Anonymous
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8 W. P. t' \0 k; m9 HA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Q3 R* Y; h! x4 l. c- Alan J. Perlis' v- g* R* z- _) P m, ]
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
! l( x) S+ g( @% ?- Thomas Edison
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, J3 B3 y; g# J( o8 g |9 {Get your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
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# `4 e; j+ w1 p3 ^8 w# NThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
& U+ \& B' o. _3 A7 O: I- 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. h) y* x6 ~, Z8 f
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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0 X$ H! _0 T1 I3 G& q: a# }+ D7 I From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
, |% X# R* ?( W" W- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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6 H% l2 v8 h- F3 h5 TTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
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5 U% N: y" h: S0 X$ HAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
+ e1 }/ r: u& p( {- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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1 J2 J% P; h, V6 t: oHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
5 l [) d% P, P2 _6 k$ i5 z* {- Al Gore on Y2K
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.6 h) R% f) O$ w/ U! b e' @% v
- 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.
4 T/ U- v, K: B( B$ U, H4 _- Linus Torvalds
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& ~9 C* z* R! Y0 x+ ATo 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.1 q$ F% b$ g) e z* i
- Linus Torvalds
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Windows is just DOS in drag.# [4 R% v+ A2 z8 O
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8 }. ~5 [5 `; K8 N& M+ BThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
U0 f) D8 ]$ c1 q( |: ?1 b- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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