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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
i* I2 S+ |0 m% k8 q2 Y/ ^- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
3 \' M, i$ X3 u+ ^( J- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
, E$ U; l9 u6 `) }- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981; u- v+ r5 R: G' t: h
+ h+ N* i% I1 D& X8 m. R6 B& mThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- b+ a7 `4 t; P2 k `% i3 Z- 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.. B+ B) _) U$ F' S' ]9 B! \1 E
- George Pompidou9 U, Z3 Y6 P, r4 W; \2 Z5 g
: n5 C' H$ @) a1 H0 J" HTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
L; k& ]# g; h: |- Anonymous
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, K `* b1 E$ i& j, PFor 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.! h7 `/ ]3 G: H) H
- Anonymous6 U+ D0 l7 f( C4 K2 h
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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.
4 t. X/ H2 k O* w1 m' d- Andy Rooney
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.! a4 W9 ?) w8 r+ s: ~5 U
- Richard Power
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& A( S" S- B0 l b; }0 q2 SI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
# n! V% c! w/ q& W7 n+ A0 _- Scott Adams, T9 B( `! ^, \# n2 Z
1 a8 J! t- b' o* \2 R- TIn 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.: g1 C0 ]- a0 j2 l% o' F0 W$ S
- Bradley's Bromide
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6 m& l& w' @7 i/ k! G- [9 mThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
! L# @- k7 Y4 E% a- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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2 W7 F* T' q/ u cAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
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$ F0 L; [4 x9 `7 n, s6 F% r4 SThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.1 J4 ]+ Y2 v$ r, x* b
- Jeremy S. Anderson* c7 ?. j: @2 B# i n8 Q: |
3 ~; F) D/ h2 |5 P0 d6 tOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.' R, B1 J9 V' x, M! M9 S) `( v
- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
# }1 Q; i' b O, {# f+ {/ u& |- 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.9 R! v e0 U0 M$ [# G9 g
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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( H* i/ K+ @- Q) w' ^* RBuild early and build often. B+ ?5 I7 j6 i+ I z* l
- Proprietary developer adage& M! J3 \, [4 g" X3 [) y( s8 K: w* D
6 u4 `3 T! D" m- E$ N! j/ tRelease early and release often.; ^9 W9 Z, f' j! R& m* c* Z
- Open source developer adage7 K& N* C) ^! U
7 J: p$ U/ G* pWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
+ A8 K; G& K. |* B- 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.
0 J \) Q' \" n! w( C+ l- Margaret Thatcher
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.! W- \+ |/ D& d: J% W8 W' d- n/ I
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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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Everything that can be invented has been invented.& U% u" _. P; ^3 v5 I' W
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 18995 r9 R Q* q$ X
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
6 b8 L- k1 M0 R- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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$ J1 M, L& Q- T+ e- I$ QAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.* U' x( |% E ~4 `6 A5 L% T; f
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
) o) G$ |; V% s1 r0 k- Gregory Benford
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; n+ Z$ _2 c9 u6 h5 Q4 G* ]Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.$ `4 G) _" [% r, \3 ^& X
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% X6 s/ ]7 O' D: S# B |4 _A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
9 x; F1 f# t9 n" G. S$ D1 P8 i- Alan J. Perlis
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9 p0 m7 h9 ^6 \# fI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
$ n+ B) j9 A1 S. t; ~4 V- Thomas Edison8 D) {+ ]; n. Y- @: m: J2 U" `9 ^
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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.
h. J7 a8 A4 v0 A- 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.0 F! N: k9 c" \
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.5 o; b) |9 Z3 Y8 u
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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7 p' B$ a5 w1 M1 L+ y2 V0 C' X# \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.
1 T$ [' s F: F) f+ F- 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?
1 N4 ^! O& O' q. y1 O- Al Gore on Y2K
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
3 @) y- H5 t- B4 z- n- 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.
- O2 ?" B7 c+ H- D8 G- 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.2 t9 d" K" i. @) n3 e- p
- Linus Torvalds
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Windows is just DOS in drag.
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/ ]2 P& o9 `$ |+ M# ?! GThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
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