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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.1 s" V3 X3 @( g8 i6 ~% V A2 R
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum7 N+ s2 @+ ?0 w3 z
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?( z* {" W( P( x8 Y0 `
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.2 ]2 A' `; Z ~% l
- B. F. Skinner
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, s; V2 A5 P$ e) e- K7 fThere 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.2 P% B' |* z5 }' A
- George Pompidou3 N% f- D3 f2 \( l
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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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) {0 ]" b- ]0 G/ ^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.7 ^2 y8 G5 f" z2 C0 z2 y# s6 j" J
- Anonymous0 e& @8 A4 W, ?6 U
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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.
, Y1 v; b3 |( ^) 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.9 G; [( U: Q$ t3 A g) s4 X, f9 ~& e: q
- Richard Power6 U/ q/ w8 V; y
+ U' Y! K |/ A! c5 {4 j FI think there is a world market for maybe five computers. c5 m* X+ s9 t. T
- 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.
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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.4 c8 M* V8 _ J, C8 J7 w
- Anonymous5 S$ M! p+ k Z
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.: r% r+ ^5 V f/ v8 \
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- s- T% Q7 x$ K; r8 Q' ]The Internet is the Viagra of big business.0 ^) E9 L. o7 w- E: m8 H% z
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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# e1 X; @- I$ c6 U V$ ?- n6 Y5 j4 ]At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
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" L0 W! O" F# F7 \There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.. C! X9 i7 q6 {7 ?6 p, f
- Jeremy S. Anderson8 m$ w$ ] ~( c9 u& G
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
& s6 ^0 l7 l. ^1 X1 O; D: N- Elbert Hubbard
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0 p7 Z+ D+ Q1 k' B* ^Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be." B* M. y9 T9 W+ s6 o
- 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.0 T9 e; M8 U/ Q( }* o
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& d# Y& r0 ^7 U2 R0 P8 USave early, save often.$ X g# ^: y/ {3 M+ Q; l
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word) W3 W% f g: J9 ~! c
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Build early and build often.
- ?; k! u; J- `+ `, i; B$ Z1 u- Proprietary developer adage e6 S. z g: N1 o) ?) ?* Z
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Release early and release often./ c1 e/ v1 b9 x) D6 [
- Open source developer adage
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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.
7 z. D2 O7 s* k7 S- Carl Sagan% [2 Q( s; ^- y
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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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5 S$ ^2 S5 e* c5 PThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them. f3 l z9 R+ w: k# B" o7 I
- Margaret Thatcher
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.3 F( I$ A5 S; F' `
- Jerry Olson) ?9 h1 d+ X" v1 r7 l/ b6 c; r
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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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8 E$ @, E8 h' F+ r$ H6 _" @Everything that can be invented has been invented.
% b2 C/ s( j( e; N9 ?- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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, R* E( [0 f# ~+ p# kGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
! ]) o, J7 V. `- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.7 {) ^8 Y+ A f Q( O8 n* \# Z
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$ X5 b# N4 ~1 l1 @! R7 gAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
. f0 t0 Z' X' `- Gregory Benford1 B7 j7 r! q4 u1 X, F
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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9 W0 v; p: O+ ]1 X( zA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
9 P S9 A: L) i' B5 N% i' p9 V- Alan J. Perlis
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
& @! O: d& E& F, S) P- Thomas Edison# `: a; `6 _% B5 U( v
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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.7 a$ e" E- W1 u0 ^% b6 E. I! W7 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 developed/ ?& _# W. V7 t9 o7 n
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
# Z6 j' u6 q; K: Z5 m! r) E0 z- Senator Bob Dole
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, B5 b7 U# ?! s0 Z- @. b8 h2 FComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.+ D* l Z6 e5 E8 R% R- T
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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3 J7 t6 j9 I7 Z$ G. o5 XTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.4 T ?4 o7 i9 p
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.2 G0 i+ e" \2 n( `3 N; D
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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6 H. a4 v+ w$ \2 l8 \' UHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
( ^* a$ w/ X/ q& ~- m- Al Gore on Y2K
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; P8 ], p& n/ ^$ M* x, cThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.0 ~' Z2 ^1 L0 b, _( |
- Sydney Brenner in 19276 i! O$ y6 K- f# h+ Z8 H6 s
- R/ X7 t. Q0 qThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
2 b. ^- \, N3 s2 ?6 J: ~& r t5 O- Linus Torvalds
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; l0 p+ q: K" A' XTo 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 H" t7 s* l" t8 |; _2 b
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' Y. ~7 V1 }7 N7 L5 ^& NWindows is just DOS in drag.# C4 `& z; Z) T! I: p) W
- Anonymous
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% t/ Y3 J$ R* L6 FThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home./ H0 v2 g( O: r- ]& p$ h
- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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