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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.! @" j/ n) N3 `4 N" d
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
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1 t7 p2 o: Y! l" z- X) v2 g* I/ j640K ought to be enough for anybody.
3 w5 d& P* P2 i6 y1 W' p' }# {! m- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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* `1 h r: y0 K: N: C. d7 NThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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. G9 n6 A/ k' G$ V( p3 w+ k- JThere 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 R V7 E v" N5 U2 f' v# \/ l- George Pompidou) F3 f8 s& C) B6 I( _* @
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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.
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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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; b$ N2 _4 B3 g; XComputers 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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8 \( |& ]8 d- p' D( B) Q ^) fIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.) B& r& H3 t3 J" p. X' l# M4 `( N
- Richard Power: \4 [- Z( O8 j2 J1 Y9 e: H
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.3 F& M3 `" I$ H q6 o
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943, M% Y+ @7 S. u/ H0 K
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
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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.
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.# w- V0 @. B6 X) A) ~# ~. ]
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric7 `* j/ h1 y! G
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At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.- H: O8 f- G7 ?% ~
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$ c1 n( Y1 B; R, YThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.1 n/ c* @8 [: q4 F: M! D& }. \
- Jeremy S. Anderson2 x/ A5 y- o' _" g5 |" B
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.% I7 M2 @3 f ~ x
- Elbert Hubbard
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& X! J' ?" C3 c9 I, y2 OAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
0 [; h5 [% X# Y- 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.( g3 P1 Y/ w1 y4 `. d2 {6 v
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often.6 \' I: `* D; Z( u" i
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Release early and release often.
* H E( \# L' l- Open source developer adage
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. R4 X4 z: w* r9 |* a6 B9 eWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.) v: m3 m% S' P$ X$ [6 A
- Carl Sagan: b3 u5 t: w: t% d0 w: [3 b
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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. s" P% q) [7 l8 i/ T8 u
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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.2 s! k1 |* T1 E* {9 f
- Margaret Thatcher
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.6 v2 S7 c& ~+ v$ `3 ^, ?
- Jerry Olson" O' s/ {8 o8 p
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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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" _6 M' f5 k, [$ GEverything that can be invented has been invented.; l5 w* ?9 D# i- c1 \6 w
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
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: h* V. p+ K' W! R& {. t; U1 S0 ZAny 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.8 [9 o4 @8 W5 e& L8 @
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. E0 R1 z8 n; M; y0 qNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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, c6 o7 n) S/ T7 J8 YA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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$ E' @- m) o6 D: vI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work./ h- A* F* z$ w- [0 y
- Thomas Edison
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0 }. E+ H/ u* o: s: @* M8 W1 t9 NGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product./ h) s/ H0 `6 c% ?
- 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: p9 |" i5 E) g
; Q h3 Q* _5 I, f( w }0 \The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
; b/ z4 N$ B$ q* K- 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.( y# B2 _; ], ]4 [$ R6 I4 V
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.4 P u: b. p: N$ Y6 C
- 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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$ B* b: i( d% AAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.8 ^) H' ]/ A2 A! o3 R5 k& V
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos7 n. z8 N' p4 d4 P9 Z1 R
( i3 Q' M/ Q5 v. Z. D( t) T: g, CHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?* O" l$ d% ^3 I, T( I
- Al Gore on Y2K
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& V6 ~+ O$ `* ?" g5 v4 [: i5 X( nThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.% R) T2 c, o3 V
- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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/ ~2 c' ^+ u; |6 a; o- v% |The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
* p% H$ [; b7 u% N) g; k: v- Linus Torvalds
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Windows is just DOS in drag.
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
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