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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.9 q% V# Y! I0 n" [2 q& ~3 x
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum9 A" w' g$ r, h3 T. k
8 E2 M$ y" ]6 BWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?3 G* x8 q" M7 h1 e6 \6 E# ?
- T.S. Elliot3 |" _( M, ~' l4 \0 `
g( A3 j* _% c7 A640K ought to be enough for anybody.2 p6 ~* W% s- k7 P6 M8 c1 W7 {6 p/ I
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.8 z! `0 w$ `% ~1 V9 L- E$ q
- B. F. Skinner# @0 x) e- [; [
+ `. m% w+ |" ?3 i3 R1 ?5 @1 Q" SThere 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.% W. b/ F/ a" ?0 w' ?* i$ W
- George Pompidou# q. L0 X4 }& X7 W4 i8 u9 H/ r
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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.# Y; P8 n& U- a: f$ Y
- 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.$ d5 W. I* o4 s% \8 k
- Anonymous
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& `" h; m% _* H! r; o/ _$ _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.2 W9 T& ~) X$ m3 A1 p3 s
- Andy Rooney
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.! j$ M+ E! j" h0 j1 N% o3 H6 u
- Richard Power; d7 X7 D0 l3 N% }- w, A; f( m
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.- Z/ V2 Q& W3 F/ O& \
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 19433 _; u! B7 t4 Q$ Y
) C( e, ?3 t: a$ l" @& iIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
5 F# u7 M7 \. h) y; F6 j ]7 ^- 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.
1 w# e3 N# O: b- Anonymous$ ^; \. G% `* O
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
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$ V0 H5 N% R! f L; y# i, g1 S, VThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.; @ S0 T/ v% M5 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.& t0 P# y+ u8 ?4 K: j' r7 |
- Anonymous
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2 F) A+ G. Q7 z( cThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.# c3 c8 K; Y+ b' e, m( L" c) F M
- Jeremy S. Anderson7 j* i- N, r( ^: v2 r( L7 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.
1 E. f p) G5 f- Elbert Hubbard
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: T% I$ \2 p, R0 ~9 s/ l: pAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
J, E) q4 ?6 c; Z- David Thornburg. R: b$ A6 T6 T3 X. Z
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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.
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Save early, save often.
, ^" ]/ R7 J2 U1 r- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word7 z- S" L. O* k
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Build early and build often.
8 K; W- |8 N) K8 j( d1 J( e- Proprietary developer adage$ S" R! Z! T% t% c7 ]! M
1 I: A8 M) o- y) S, @' ]: oRelease early and release often. R/ l, T+ x3 B2 e# t
- Open source developer adage) G$ A4 G, V, \+ p2 t, I
, s, G7 b& J9 E$ o& W1 BWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
- ]; r% I* A2 ^0 g2 P- Carl Sagan; r9 A# e& I& v# ~4 x
' s! I9 ]. u( x* g# r+ w4 @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.; V8 O L4 r% g) m& p' {% R. @
- Anonymous6 } C9 d r( k7 B7 g2 x, U
( |' H) D3 s. uThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.# q; j2 |; K1 U, r
- Margaret Thatcher! u+ z: ]* t! O5 R0 Q
2 X5 U; z: i }1 A; XThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.: N7 ]' ~+ i- P+ B. q# d
- 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., i" ~/ [8 H, `2 h5 X6 C8 A
- Porterfield" w O9 D: q, \& Y7 ?
- d3 O3 d. \/ b; q6 j8 I5 BEverything that can be invented has been invented.
, | M0 E4 T4 v! G8 Y6 @& K* c5 O- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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; M3 B6 W7 N6 m" D, E+ ] d: O% IAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic. D& P7 a8 }8 J$ W! `8 ~ b9 L
- Arthur C. Clarke5 P' ^* l. A6 v: b& W+ S5 F" e0 l
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
9 r" q" v; q$ U, W+ q8 c3 X4 f' O- Gregory Benford
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" X6 Q6 @9 D; B2 S$ WNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.# P1 ?' [8 r. [4 c) N$ [
- Anonymous% P9 W0 T. A7 P' s+ t% J3 b
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
' W/ E# X6 j; V- Alan J. Perlis
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5 p8 P4 M6 q/ ?% S& z6 CI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.* [# M8 }9 T) Y+ b% W
- Thomas Edison7 z- o N- \& r4 g6 N% u/ a2 w% E, Z
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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.
7 g) Z& k- x+ @$ M) q: J1 X' \ }! j& @- 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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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.( r) c( z- E9 u' L v+ V
- Senator Bob Dole% v0 M. N! y+ t+ T" V) G7 f- ^
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.9 _3 ?' ~" f: \0 W: o: b ~
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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( T% s1 R1 r. o% W# \/ u: E From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
( H1 s/ P8 t( M- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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- O" @; w4 F$ y% R; H u, ATechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.2 B/ P) z& H, {7 c& p+ k
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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: B# L3 Y- I9 t9 i, FAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.; R) M5 x+ B) m: ]; {! D% q8 d& e3 r
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
- v) D9 j6 |1 Z6 z7 i- Al Gore on Y2K
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+ ]: ^$ ]/ j" Z' ~2 \The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.; G2 P! K" h6 Y4 H' H9 y- I% n6 L
- 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.
% N2 z8 ]1 ~3 v5 B- 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.$ s3 u+ B- E/ x% V5 A
- Linus Torvalds
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2 U* N' m0 W- n5 dWindows is just DOS in drag.
9 t5 D0 X0 [! [0 j: R# a- Anonymous
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. z7 S# Y2 G) H2 J# @There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
; G9 p- @4 @( X7 r+ r8 }7 A- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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