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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
! _* h; S* B8 y v- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.( k% k6 f6 ?# T7 x5 m: z
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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* M% Q( B3 u7 m# U$ HThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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$ J1 r( J* v& K" R1 YThere 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.
( [/ Z/ J7 k8 E: i6 g% P- George Pompidou* J# h2 I9 }+ I
. Y! F. c) h. |$ X1 G( GTechnology 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.9 v5 I9 C/ W0 p- z9 e6 |3 c9 P5 @
- Anonymous! ^* l8 L( i6 N0 T/ i% i9 x i0 N3 S
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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.
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
/ n% H3 w1 E; ?- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
' \3 \9 T& x0 M7 s& z) ^- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 19438 @ ]5 p8 A4 i1 y
0 }& _$ W8 G3 G# s; p% o9 z q& RIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.' Q) a. g* S4 i+ i' s& J4 K
- Scott Adams' h q5 h0 q$ Q
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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.
9 t; \" t3 L* u7 t# F- Anonymous
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. c9 H. Q& R+ y7 uIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
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4 A9 z& \( V+ Y5 k: x- nThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.3 _6 G" C3 z$ N. }
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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* \8 Q3 C* r1 B# X6 N3 XAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
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- j7 {6 E4 \7 v; IThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
! j% A# K) O" p' m+ v6 r ~8 w- Jeremy S. Anderson6 d2 _2 h. x# \+ D, G7 s
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.# O' a6 c$ Y7 }6 L
- Elbert Hubbard3 t- I, a( M1 I3 }+ R9 t1 [
6 y2 D e/ {% ~5 i8 d) f+ l# uAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.6 d( W- S. ]/ b5 w8 W% y7 S. u; M
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' S( P$ R2 ^1 B( @6 jThose 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.1 i. p) U$ U2 C
- Anonymous
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" s1 H- |! i0 X% i+ F. c5 LSave early, save often.9 r9 T% z% o. @
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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9 H# b* R7 d( l) JBuild early and build often.5 G/ F: s+ G' o9 A
- Proprietary developer adage
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- Open source developer adage$ H, }; D6 X0 W$ N' O
, K5 M Z2 P. Z. |- }6 l: _We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
: g0 U. k8 `. l5 o4 U- Carl Sagan4 a; P# d: v, _- u' A9 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.
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* L1 @# L& `, ?, U" A4 |There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.- j' S, O+ z3 a# h" S( r0 y
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* w6 W+ p$ d: `9 E# n& S1 M) 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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8 |7 ?, d! i9 w: TEverything that can be invented has been invented.- i6 Y6 w3 c5 X0 @1 @
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 18993 N# d/ n; J' N# M: c9 h/ ?! B
% a/ Y4 D% q* e/ ^GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
L: a- v, ^* L8 T- m1 y1 C$ O, L9 e- Fairchild Research and Development, 19695 B% i! E3 {9 ?
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic. J4 U* a M: x; F1 w( c
- Arthur C. Clarke9 {& j1 Y$ l. Y5 p5 i. ^0 d
; o( i3 }( }& \* B$ }% m$ a5 wAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.* K X0 |$ Y f
- Gregory Benford# l5 q8 w, E5 ?" ^+ k, L
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
' p! H, Q0 Q N( Q3 d- Alan J. Perlis
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.' Z& t3 u9 H) K" N
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_& `$ i1 r5 L9 B8 H& e( GGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
, m6 ~) H& U( Q% H# ]- 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 developed2 M! Z3 n* @" d* [2 S/ j! o$ j5 B
# f, ?( U+ S6 S/ U, kThe Internet is a great way to get on the net. V2 p3 e7 _! _8 t$ L
- Senator Bob Dole
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- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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$ Z8 G: _* G1 s; i From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
* r7 [, [8 ?3 X7 [& L. F- 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.- A5 p" P$ [8 L
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.7 G n$ b s6 C3 W! w
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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; ~1 ?, k$ d* G9 vHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
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9 X8 C. G# ]$ r' t0 ~% \2 ^The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
# j- J: Q+ l3 B! Q; X: p8 p6 e- Sydney Brenner in 1927$ p9 |$ e# \- E1 A
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The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.$ h- J- G n5 B8 y
- Linus Torvalds* |2 E2 [# X& S8 Y& K& X
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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.9 g4 [7 z4 d: q# Q. U) E8 u% i
- Linus Torvalds
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# V" X% v0 p; |4 D2 v5 c( l8 fWindows is just DOS in drag.5 [9 Q* W4 p( q1 t) u1 q
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6 P) p. H3 K8 ^4 g6 z6 V, \There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
* C6 h) e# k6 v4 @) l- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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