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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?1 r9 ]! n- j, P1 r5 j0 }) o
- T.S. Elliot3 w, @# T4 O: E$ W; x9 v
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
& a0 D' k% w+ Y0 _- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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$ u; w3 U: {" H0 d# Y/ _The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.% e, u+ u- X$ g' q Q
- B. F. Skinner
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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.9 O8 [6 ^) e, N6 ? ^ z
- George Pompidou" V. n/ M5 d3 e) m
3 T1 H* r& b wTechnology 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., d- c. v2 E4 `- H a* K4 a
- Anonymous
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, g, b+ M2 t ]( B; l; XComputers 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.( U2 `2 x% U/ F( F# F
- Andy Rooney1 J+ l+ z: H8 } u; c
8 G- r& c3 x2 eIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.2 [) F4 x6 C; f
- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
9 b2 B2 o" q! i9 m6 T+ f- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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% o+ |; y/ [: A0 A6 jIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.( t8 q0 d& f1 q0 R2 n
- Scott Adams, C, O5 H: n- t$ \2 C+ G
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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.
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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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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.$ J/ G" \$ H% }4 r2 O5 ?
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric* |9 q0 V' @& j$ T/ K
( N* T3 d( O7 j6 |* T. \. PAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
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There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.4 _- V8 Q' J% |+ }& M& p
- Jeremy S. Anderson- s1 f; u1 h: r/ L2 X' B
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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.+ v3 W) y! f/ p% \) ~: l
- David Thornburg9 u& Q. S$ i+ K. \7 ~3 C% n4 ]
/ ^" e q0 H# T4 { DThose 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- j3 K9 H2 q I# @
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Save early, save often.
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Build early and build often.
; f( ~2 x8 L! t' C- K" K- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often./ u$ _2 @. ^% s0 v9 E% X# K( h0 y
- Open source developer adage2 x+ Z% I/ E1 `% E' j
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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.$ s7 U* X4 W8 \4 a$ S( b% p, ?0 H
- Carl Sagan8 V1 y% w$ I' j$ w3 N" ?
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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., J% @( {& e, p
- Anonymous
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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.+ J; j9 r9 g" u' N' r6 W
- Jerry Olson! ~$ f4 n' A | c" y( `+ k, T
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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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% Q! I$ R; y; E& u$ Z$ H4 fEverything that can be invented has been invented.
- S7 l1 @6 X+ m; x- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
E8 C, x, q0 p4 ?9 R- Fairchild Research and Development, 19692 \$ |* Z4 C/ w8 N2 p$ R$ |. b
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.& d# ?3 g5 C0 q
- Arthur C. Clarke
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- ^6 D0 Q ?- T% p: F. w: KAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.4 v. U; B6 D* y% i
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.& e0 b# P P9 O/ H( l
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* L% @, v V( l: H( SA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
& `/ ]6 G" l, I& p9 w0 i- Alan J. Perlis
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9 c/ H/ A8 H: j- ]7 SI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
' O3 }( e0 e# k i2 R. J1 T) E- Thomas Edison
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1 I& }) ?/ x; s) D% `1 Y( rGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.: B3 V3 I0 b8 Y; K. p7 m
- 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 developed5 @: J/ Q$ j3 U* U
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The 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.
* h/ F6 E' f" X- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.0 ]5 c% u" F2 f
- 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.
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
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How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?) g) `& T. b" [
- Al Gore on Y2K
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+ C/ z+ S! L9 ~( HThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent./ o( k$ ]5 E% o
- Sydney Brenner in 1927; ^$ [: ^3 O3 k+ T
}" E0 `' k" L: JThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
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. p& f }* B$ Y- NTo 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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& Y. y! J9 K2 V0 q" z0 i, N7 L( {Windows is just DOS in drag.
1 t4 S$ C$ i. l" m- Anonymous
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.. G0 {4 G& H# U/ L9 ~; }/ x& ?7 s
- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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