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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.0 P8 L1 i' |# P. R2 K9 f4 I
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum) Z7 W2 o4 L: Q7 R2 d, K' H: \4 e
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?1 M$ [. b. v: }$ k) m
- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.8 x7 K2 o: o; c( v" T( a
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 19813 Q, R$ e- S" C" B( h9 }
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.# N# S7 F: g, ?, z! u; ]
- B. F. Skinner/ D' T" H* g+ c& G: i# W
7 K/ h. l$ k( w, g# n8 L/ zThere 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.
4 i: ]9 t3 U- D$ ~- George Pompidou. p4 g. \2 Q' f" x/ r
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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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( u( U+ h9 ^1 ?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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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.
1 q u) F, Q$ b) S( t0 D: Q' z* P- Andy Rooney
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: a& z1 S; s/ YIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
: b; @0 P( _) q( c: N0 j# R- Richard Power
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* Z3 {; C" V/ ~' P: _2 W" N bI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
\; A8 w* h; ~; ?! g- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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% D) K% i5 U* w4 b6 N: o+ UIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
$ i- l. B6 ^% [& u3 T' I% C- Scott Adams+ J s( I! {1 Z
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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.; R- x: e6 R) P4 ?) \+ _9 `( ?
- Anonymous) E* W6 @8 S8 F' P
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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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, D) E' z& j. Q4 D2 w3 H& rThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
# G+ s! a! G( Q; P' x/ ^# c1 n- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric6 K; r9 ]: q) P0 ?& ^
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At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.* v# s/ I4 y$ _$ A- }
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There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.' x' F2 u, \7 f! @" E, d; P
- Jeremy S. Anderson
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
% v' G3 v" {0 e- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.) E% }0 B; F+ [4 `) N
- David Thornburg& [8 |) m2 F4 u f
' h. o( M( ~* O- g# p: V7 HThose 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.4 T+ c0 L. Z- o% u. C2 d' g
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often.: y1 d& `3 g- \( V2 s
- Proprietary developer adage
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/ i# G; c" L. C8 c1 `2 A9 a1 s/ |Release early and release often.
; B% L- y: x- O' n- 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.& B: M+ o0 f+ {' W2 |3 E
- Carl Sagan
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J+ c" b' |7 BIf 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.. C) k! E" M' v5 k7 E' `
- Anonymous
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" R0 a: I% d% S, B+ h; TThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
' M& w$ R. r4 u( ^* N6 k& y/ ~- Margaret Thatcher
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) @! a: l% p2 t- qThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon." b# V0 n. D: N- K8 _
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6 _5 r# C5 K2 \$ S3 F5 ~3 FThe 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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" S i8 Y" e$ k+ T6 f5 B3 D1 v( cEverything that can be invented has been invented.! ? @( X6 \* I
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899* P8 C" R- ?6 p0 B
8 ?7 q1 R& @: u! L: p# Q; x# gGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT/ K" V; Y9 r* ~6 S* g: V* h
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic." `3 n3 `+ i+ Y7 o
- Arthur C. Clarke. Y, D# B6 P% \0 Z- q0 x/ p6 k
/ L5 y( w- d- v$ _Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.' ?8 c+ Q+ d. d* |% }) h
- Gregory Benford
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& c; u3 E2 l& \; Y: G: x5 lNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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: P# c f" h& w8 ?, Y2 _A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God." r g. J9 E, c+ A
- Alan J. Perlis2 T2 G4 x9 g; m4 q" k
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
0 r! J1 Q3 D4 F% u5 ^" b! o- Thomas Edison
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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.+ Y$ b+ {9 B& K# i6 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* z4 {' a% o5 \$ F
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.) F9 \$ I$ H/ q$ b
- Senator Bob Dole
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, A; s; I, X. A+ x4 E lComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons. }% ]8 P; h2 u5 V$ t: s. ]& T
- Popular Mechanics, 1949+ d6 ]2 _8 w/ b; q: B' W3 v+ z
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.1 c7 Q/ q6 p* U2 P! n6 n0 v
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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6 x7 D' Y! {& G/ D" Q& a7 }Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.) N6 _' F, T) ~ R' M1 _1 Q/ n0 y
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% ]7 a( g2 a: hAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.; ~$ A! h9 {% E5 ]& r9 C* f, z
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos8 a: P6 M$ J) R2 G' ~# }
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How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
. d6 u/ L6 k r9 r' c# @- Al Gore on Y2K( l0 T: \8 L W" _ U/ n' K7 W
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
* h# a+ ]' v: c' S- 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.
7 ?5 t1 l f. E* G( T( s) c& z2 w- 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.
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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.
# P1 U; Q( w- g7 O- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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