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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.% q0 F, t3 B- u. d
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum! o; D! C0 R1 s
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?* _/ E3 d: ]4 S/ A; h
- T.S. Elliot/ |% N0 n2 u" a; n% F
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
/ h7 Q" I7 z2 V# F0 z- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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. k0 o: ^" X4 F" X) K2 L& |3 v1 }The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
( ?' r. o y/ B4 K9 k- 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.
( ]( F( c! t B7 [% s/ |- George Pompidou
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" z) ]" G! ^2 }# m3 gTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.. h- Z4 m5 T/ X" k4 P
- 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.
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8 k& u; Y, {* P/ g9 A$ hComputers 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' ^/ h1 S% p* S- Andy Rooney8 B, Q9 V8 b2 T8 k; ~, p% w$ H
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.7 K$ i' n! L/ k, j
- Richard Power j! y2 M2 J& K" l X( H
7 }( N. ~) A3 K _# C" M; {+ F; FI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
% w7 i, f& P* a- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.5 n5 m' f; f! z" h, I
- 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.
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
+ B0 f/ r7 `/ ?7 h# r; O. T" l- Bradley's Bromide
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.+ B! z/ L+ L7 Q$ T
- 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.) B$ j4 O' }5 K8 Q" v
- Anonymous: ^8 O: ^9 V. r1 q7 o# O- Z
) X' A% @8 v# b, j. g) v1 F/ S& ~There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.4 m; S8 X6 l' j& d
- Jeremy S. Anderson
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6 Y% U8 [! g: Y6 FOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.' |( Y3 q. m& v0 L1 @( f K
- Elbert Hubbard6 X# }( `" W8 y/ ^8 I; B& p
& U* ], i' L0 X" F" s- H, bAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
/ l) D$ y4 P& P1 d- 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.
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Save early, save often./ A. B4 d6 c0 ^- G: t- f
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often.
; ~8 y4 Z+ z" e+ K- Proprietary developer adage; b8 F( `, t2 a: I! s. J1 n
* O: u D' n" n) I! R H$ B+ QRelease early and release often.
6 Q y9 A4 c" y i4 w6 l5 @, W- Open source developer adage# w4 Y1 e4 C- O- o; j6 K
4 x+ n, u! d2 J$ B4 C tWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. p. B1 H) @. R
- 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.$ n( p! p' c; U6 ~& M+ U
- 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.
) c N5 C) e7 u% _- Margaret Thatcher
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6 h7 [3 h; B% e* i1 OThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.7 R* P( g/ ?- d+ K4 t/ d% b
- Jerry Olson5 J# N$ z' s: o! u* u- o6 C, L4 d
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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., ]; \! Q7 A4 ^' x/ [3 G+ c
- Porterfield
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+ M# N4 G; ~$ n% }" z- @6 REverything that can be invented has been invented.2 G6 h/ k5 N2 F3 t. c5 K
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT+ G% m3 ^! j; i2 Y; g5 @
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.: f/ P, K4 q5 d$ h5 A' ~4 d8 I; {
- Gregory Benford. ]6 H+ _7 k' W% P7 `+ l$ x# @' @, M
0 M, y/ Z! T' D1 F, j1 B/ [) bNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.. K( s, `( P. `( K
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( t" L* h+ J! ?+ X/ xA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
: j* u' x% H) t$ u- Alan J. Perlis
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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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.0 K S) e5 i @* j7 _
- 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; A% @) y- I$ T/ ?$ D* Y. A
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
* R. ?6 g0 X0 f2 E/ L& u- 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.
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* i! Z5 K. @3 }/ k8 P% { From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
- k3 j( a& g8 S& t5 x- 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./ }/ ?6 J: N0 }& A$ {0 w% C" l9 c
- Andrew Heller, IBM7 O& X# B6 }5 ?/ w7 o) X$ N7 `
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
1 i& `& z9 `7 m3 p" @- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos1 }* q% Q6 G0 y
% z1 ]! F& X/ l( ^' X S2 lHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
6 `! P$ Y4 V$ I7 F1 h5 J0 ~- Al Gore on Y2K" n- h7 N3 ]% }) M/ D- N
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.& K2 f2 r0 |3 [7 ?
- 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.
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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.& \$ i. u1 @2 [" D1 v& t
- Linus Torvalds
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Windows is just DOS in drag.! Y g3 ~0 }0 B3 {+ U8 t( f/ {
- Anonymous
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- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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