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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
! I6 P1 G* f9 ]4 h- Andrew S. Tannenbaum" f6 m0 ^ }" _1 M7 ?) |2 z
+ t: m2 X0 ^. c' @* y7 R- P, H/ lWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
5 n5 F' v5 d( F% c* T- T.S. Elliot
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3 X2 \1 |/ c4 `& @! q {640K ought to be enough for anybody.
" z* Y$ i" ~0 _& }/ a, v+ T9 `- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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0 |! C- \3 R2 i8 i( @1 U6 qThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.3 D6 k# y# u4 X- }% S: g
- 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.0 w# }" |: y3 g% ?) m
- George Pompidou
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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.$ g8 g1 v% h2 b6 q# ]! `
- 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.. J5 p+ b4 |0 h2 s6 X# j: u( L
- Anonymous
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; |: R" w7 V1 {. Q# h! ~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.
, P* c% j2 l8 v# p2 q- Andy Rooney
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.. H3 D) T' r. H+ N8 g& t
- Richard Power' t. O( R' i" J5 Z
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- U7 o- C! b% P( {0 y- 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.3 A+ E3 n, K# }8 c
- Scott Adams4 z" Q6 U" w8 Y4 ]" X. ^
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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.0 ^% T* P& s1 n+ z/ `5 B5 k% L
- Anonymous2 U, ~7 H& v2 N& _2 t+ x/ n
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
; }* {& ^( K4 ?, d- Bradley's Bromide3 l& V9 a2 A, B/ u% B6 O
3 r# I% T: k% r+ L+ F! j, iThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
( p( |: N+ B* N. h3 p- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric8 T( ~3 A" n) |) u2 T9 q) A/ ?
# `; N3 j- i0 z! H4 g8 G& xAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
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5 \; j8 ^$ N; V! P7 g0 {There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." P( [! T! n0 m. N/ \# I" N4 d
- Jeremy S. Anderson* t- u9 b1 v& t( `3 h, R9 S
' y0 ^0 S1 J, E' n8 X$ d" ?# C& ~One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.7 V) |$ C- N. e$ m
- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
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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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; g9 A, J/ l8 g. V+ w0 uSave early, save often./ t! v- G4 I$ u) x
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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: C# C4 p+ J( a0 q( t1 h) [Build early and build often.
+ E% q* V+ _7 y* s: x% N- Proprietary developer adage+ I& H1 U! u/ n! Q0 e& O: Y2 c
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Release early and release often.+ x& u. x$ o% E' a0 H7 K
- Open source developer adage2 Y! F A z1 U" [" U
- ~) E. r7 t6 Z' U, g) W7 P1 dWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
9 T$ F& w3 s* E6 a5 h7 t- Carl Sagan( x/ v9 Y- n) @0 L
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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.6 u3 }% u3 F& m
- Anonymous+ R) m! j& A7 f+ [7 x& o
, ]" a8 o4 ^% o/ aThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.+ [& k. h6 m( H2 y
- Margaret Thatcher3 [- S( b. @. \( }5 t! c! t. t
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.$ d( K6 K6 n# x0 I% L5 {$ G
- 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.
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2 ~0 E1 y( n u# b: T5 bEverything that can be invented has been invented.% o# g5 z% e# A7 G+ W9 Z
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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3 N2 O4 l" r# g8 q) k e$ [1 jGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT! M# v) P3 P& i& i2 C
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969+ C z$ s5 j# x% U% p
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.7 @$ N* M8 F/ i" I8 k* g/ C
- Arthur C. Clarke7 M! ^6 `7 R5 G* R0 k# |
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
- T- n/ |( q2 l8 \- Gregory Benford
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1 P! B. C6 \: T/ p) cNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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- X* f" a8 ~7 r4 CA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.5 h- M- k2 ^* D3 y. O% d
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.+ M) _2 {3 u% |6 {
- Thomas Edison# [2 y @) W2 L# v4 f
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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& y. m3 g) q8 c! T5 ?3 j6 x
- 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 developed6 n; m1 x0 l; N* K9 O1 J
( I# l% h, ?6 @7 K+ m, r% w$ LThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
1 |5 O- z1 I' \- y1 W" m- Senator Bob Dole
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& E: W: I# @6 p, L: [# @Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
% y/ B# n1 X2 F7 a; T! u4 M! t- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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5 t8 L" z- v9 W; \ r% ?0 i From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.' x) F* C3 x) t* ]7 x
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy) u, l" V/ q3 V/ R: j+ P; X" H
+ M0 ?4 d( X/ x1 Q, G# x8 E. GTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.6 q% W1 n% h+ H1 m
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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( {: Z) h3 L6 O$ l& |4 `" dAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
% s. w+ z4 c( B8 A2 F4 u- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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" p: N9 p" Q' U4 r) Z2 qHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?1 H- |1 k! C# o8 ?
- Al Gore on Y2K/ b9 `1 X$ I+ R7 m: Q
) M* H# |7 K$ B; P; TThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
" r0 R( n- w( q$ ?% Q- Sydney Brenner in 1927; U. o6 ~. M, c! |% C5 P
& u4 ]$ O6 {+ I8 f: h. D( zThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
; f0 f: ~6 q5 D+ t$ l4 j0 V! X- Linus Torvalds6 s8 ]1 y: D, Z5 P
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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.
% U' ?2 L$ R( b8 u- Linus Torvalds
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* G% Q0 [: b, Z/ v. k' E4 IWindows is just DOS in drag.& P5 x0 @- k* O2 I* l5 `
- Anonymous
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
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