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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.! F; v3 z/ ?; X
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum- g5 g3 f' r: f, B
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
) N; e& F( C$ y8 O) `- T.S. Elliot" D7 x& B) \! r6 k4 L
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.4 F3 }" y3 D8 Z2 `) t5 U( x( f
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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2 a! t1 N; b) P4 U* J0 ?The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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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 I- _0 Y7 c& O0 I; c" O! j- George Pompidou6 P g$ a% k0 u A5 @& ?
! m# X1 A; H+ c! r OTechnology 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.5 Y* g4 W8 x. i- H z) ]
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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" ` h( J' _% v& o; J7 D9 Y8 h6 o- R
- Andy Rooney. Q3 c0 ?/ f& \. s @. h
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.0 j5 B, R% g' J( s0 p7 Q0 t* N
- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.1 U$ K3 e( N0 n. p* o9 {
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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# i3 r; _3 L. t" S3 hIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.5 d8 d8 ~0 @$ T4 O( g2 m% t2 ]8 B
- Scott Adams
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( _ X+ ]$ W1 \' iIn 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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$ b$ ]3 Y& T% h$ c, GIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.% F$ ^& m) ^5 _, Q) }* m: d
- Bradley's Bromide3 X8 u0 I7 w3 q, U
- p6 o m( e( z% X& M9 `' zThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
* R Y W z' ^2 q4 O+ m- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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& w( u5 P) r& |0 i8 Z) [At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
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6 Y- l7 g1 n' A7 hThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.1 ?# ~. o! P" o/ u5 W
- Jeremy S. Anderson
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: K' | I _/ o$ O8 Q* E: l8 c5 rOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
$ @" g' S2 g! M9 ^7 G7 h- Elbert Hubbard' e8 n# V% Q0 w! y7 z8 Q
: d( D+ W: U8 |2 t+ i: VAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
6 t. S" r& y- W6 r2 G* ]- 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.! V# V m$ }" z& L# n
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Save early, save often.8 h% o% u* O" s5 e' ]; V: n) Y
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often." v/ d5 g0 Z; ~
- Proprietary developer adage( p U9 h* c# _. `( J
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Release early and release often.
/ @ D$ J; M9 D, x/ Z2 O+ u- Open source developer adage
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# Y, ~% s9 ]# y, pWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.6 K; O7 j9 v# T X' D j
- Carl Sagan
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N1 f L0 w$ k+ C" |* q* F$ tIf 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. N' z: G8 W3 g0 {
- Margaret Thatcher! J9 P7 Y' }( f5 K) J4 f6 S6 H
0 C4 r& z, B lThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
* h$ G. B5 e! k. e, ]- Jerry Olson5 C. H9 t: l. Z2 A7 F0 q
2 V2 S' F6 a+ Q) H* ?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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/ ] N5 Z" A) {4 N5 X2 q$ MEverything that can be invented has been invented.
9 p% t( }, J0 D$ N9 l5 G2 P- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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- S: p! K# G c G6 V4 cGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT5 I7 |- [( G% ]0 e0 _
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969- m/ R* x, M: C. x4 C
: g+ k+ f5 g" z' E# ?Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.; w* p) r, e: Z2 [0 h; P N
- Arthur C. Clarke
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/ [. z0 R( [ |& fAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.2 L1 f: ^* M& ^* l* M# w
- Gregory Benford
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.' o5 t4 q7 \5 Q- M1 k2 n5 m1 r
- Anonymous1 k9 n- e6 X4 y. f- e4 d
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
, _! l7 A# u7 B) W& Z. A- Alan J. Perlis/ {7 b8 b @8 |- W
) S, H# {6 s: p: T. a% N. { dI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
. W5 t# ~0 l/ d7 k$ r- Thomas Edison
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: D) d5 G2 ]2 v" [+ Z. PGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.' z" g) t4 r3 I6 G) e. Y& H) g0 H
- 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+ x2 V# C& H! \& E
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
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5 m( c( j. y% [6 kComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
3 B2 o ?6 q0 b- \! p- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
& x" W$ v+ z ? | h- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy1 u* Q& @5 Y& c, D; m
( ~! O$ Z4 e5 p9 m5 gTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.9 b7 U3 M% M- V) p u1 z
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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( y8 N5 c3 b$ oAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
0 t+ A/ }, I! d2 N l" W- 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?
" o6 M3 R4 z3 l6 d2 M L- Al Gore on Y2K6 Q, T9 }4 U) j3 O3 e" U
; [8 j+ a) {+ e% v( [6 D: KThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
* l. F! ?7 r- e! ?2 ^& ~- Sydney Brenner in 1927- \, g% u, K/ `5 ]. ^ N9 i: ]; H
/ e5 h. w% { S! | L$ g) o7 MThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it." d2 g; W1 S, g, ]$ v3 _# _! n
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/ m( B* t1 `; w& N( bTo 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.
& M8 b5 N4 k; {. j* S" [- Linus Torvalds
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Windows is just DOS in drag.' {) s @) s( T; M3 w
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$ l# c& }$ u2 DThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.$ a, ?) d0 L, R# {. T$ ?2 ?
- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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