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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.5 d& h! h/ `; p1 X. y* z
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum& z) _- u y+ T9 F0 ~# M F' v
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
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2 j8 g3 T% |% o% R; p640K ought to be enough for anybody.) z; t+ }; O6 S
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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0 C+ V7 Q$ a" {8 mThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do., m) X& z* m) `5 Z( A
- B. F. Skinner
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4 k) F5 q( b) @4 W2 G- j9 V. 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.
6 Q- ^; K, k* A1 W3 ~3 M' a; H3 N- George Pompidou" a9 \8 U0 [* B: I* \# N
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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.1 B8 H& z! v) u* U
- Anonymous- w# V1 x8 R9 m; n. C) e
2 Q" y1 m4 ^6 s' C; j9 n9 u, ]; y& iFor 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.' j- g7 ~ o9 N( t) d
- Anonymous
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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.
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9 B( ?7 _, _: H0 \4 c: [In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.0 s/ O: {: @) E9 V ]) d- @) F
- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.7 P0 }& R. E7 Q5 X0 T
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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: O0 Z( b' w$ HIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
' P* V: p3 e2 H/ H2 a5 T. S- Scott Adams
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6 |/ C8 m# m8 K- _) wIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.4 {0 l1 m0 T" Q1 n9 i2 a
- Anonymous& I7 E6 _9 B0 E6 w) H
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
! B# {# j, _, S: u/ k2 p! n; O- Bradley's Bromide
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
w6 I4 o4 q- Z, R- E% }- 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.- D# R3 x% h: W' x
- Anonymous
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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.
, f) t: w$ P; N- _( r5 o: s- Jeremy S. Anderson' h9 ?2 D4 K# }: T
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
! d- H4 r; e0 q% m6 h% [9 j9 Y- Elbert Hubbard: V& v& }4 ]1 a4 Y3 y: Z4 [. A( O( e& D" O
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.8 A" _( _% f8 t
- David Thornburg& w3 ?: s. L+ u4 `
0 P/ a: B/ q! q. n6 RThose 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.3 d2 Z; a" s% w% _9 E
- Anonymous, K' A/ N5 z% m% n' T. M8 d3 h
$ a' m3 Q9 y5 ]9 oSave early, save often.
$ o# Z& L* I$ n- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word0 Z5 I$ ^& U' X! n2 Y
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Build early and build often.! [( i- l2 e' o' z) h! {4 v
- Proprietary developer adage- y: `. u1 N% H7 r. s0 ?) h3 Z
6 n: g+ \/ C1 xRelease early and release often.
$ Z1 f- Q9 Y7 E- Open source developer adage% k, v! r7 U+ T% T( {1 }& ?
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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.% n5 I3 R' k4 z& a# O
- 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.: Q: m" W; f8 u, M
- Margaret Thatcher* T9 b& e' S7 U( V5 B* V( ]' k
% a0 {8 X2 v( d+ hThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
1 N, E" w5 S/ W/ z# s8 Q- Jerry Olson
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9 U2 w7 m! U7 j! e, _' j4 A# ZThe 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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* r( s' _$ j4 lEverything that can be invented has been invented.
' ?3 F# W3 C1 k; y4 X) U/ u3 U- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899& X$ }3 ^( P9 L; g- t; g5 {1 Y1 |
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
3 {; O; J6 A9 _, k- @2 z- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969& p7 o w5 \! g4 F. K4 j5 |( z
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
1 g: W8 G0 G' z: n- Arthur C. Clarke4 u# ?3 [( \) _( K! n( X( c/ h' c! Y
9 b& P! V. v5 A- RAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
: q) H) P5 e) R- X, t' G1 w- Gregory Benford& o/ ]" u5 Y- |' Q
: v" a; L6 i U, W! R) S( t+ s" J FNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.
( S! a4 m/ y0 i, @- `5 E5 C- Anonymous
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
/ E# `, J4 ?" Z3 ?8 m( V- Alan J. Perlis% g, h: P, {& ?0 w ^; \2 e: q
a7 U0 i3 m- r, X' o; M* fI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.$ j( Z @1 n7 o2 i% B6 c% |# I4 s9 N3 g
- Thomas Edison
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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.
% S' a' \) n, P1 ~- 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.
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
- h) F) M3 u/ }- Popular Mechanics, 1949- D: n. b) f8 S9 F1 h3 h0 ^4 B- }% n
/ j4 b9 |, Q/ i$ @1 ]6 X From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.; y% w0 I' r- A& `: Q r* I
- 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.- t) ^/ D: B0 @; A. \+ W0 i
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos( |2 \, `- G$ h* K9 M
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How 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.- a% p& g" e) r( ^1 \
- Sydney Brenner in 1927' U, t' c+ ^5 p E* P# e/ h
* d, o8 N5 ]# t- C: D$ nThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
! A6 V1 @7 {2 J/ ]+ o9 z" Z: G; I- 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.
$ v% f& _2 R0 y$ J) a- I9 {- Linus Torvalds
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Windows is just DOS in drag.3 s) ^' ?" l, Q
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- e3 U4 u& m" m- o; B/ S7 wThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
, H2 y* Q* N, M- t/ I" O: O V- Y- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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