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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. ~ [% Z) a l; F" u
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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& @- l, u$ C, H/ AWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?+ X3 z# {, ^& T0 J) K4 j$ b2 `
- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
`6 S$ z) e! w; V" D- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981. X6 J" C. o) k0 l: l& Q9 h- R, m# I. T
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.+ O7 V% T! c% d
- B. F. Skinner$ S# }: d; _7 a
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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.1 w4 ?/ I: E1 w; @
- George Pompidou
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6 ~; c. r; G3 aTechnology 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.1 E& t9 @) P Y
- Anonymous
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- ~! E& U- u' R% SComputers 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.- p. }9 v4 Q! I/ {# F
- Andy Rooney
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3 Y* w/ \: V, O4 \+ \( C: @In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
+ X5 J1 x8 ^2 G) b' B# @; Y- Richard Power3 l* [9 ~- f, N/ A5 J2 P
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." \7 ^" e6 g4 j+ T( s$ N, `1 [# a
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943! s' _$ r) b- T/ e8 b
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.( e: A4 _3 K& p. O* [
- Scott Adams
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In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.7 q, i, ^# t0 b8 \) O
- Bradley's Bromide
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
' u$ s& d0 K3 _- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric! a$ n6 S* M& ~' d* |% V
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At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.; a2 ` K0 { z! j- J
- Anonymous
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- s# o+ G5 G; N3 G! @- SThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.; }2 o) z: d* R
- Jeremy S. Anderson: H5 D7 _) c; o# 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.% b$ w$ c6 |3 t3 @1 v3 b3 j
- Elbert Hubbard* j9 R1 |4 X& T; `7 q) v
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
6 \0 d2 T- w: |1 V/ a8 k& Z: |- David Thornburg7 e; {2 F1 H" p& u) R
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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.4 P( B# N) w, j! u& z0 E2 _
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often.
1 u5 z( I7 [! h- Proprietary developer adage
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9 ^% r- H; z# e* R4 B( A7 {0 f* ORelease early and release often.
+ F6 m5 y6 r, ^2 b- Open source developer adage' L- T1 j9 j# i4 @4 w1 {
# G. H* v8 ~8 R9 m7 p0 V. ?4 g" QWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.7 @* P. J" D; x1 R
- Carl Sagan! D; ?2 K7 w8 p0 s/ {0 e
* a' K5 J5 v2 ?+ X4 z* U: @8 X" nIf 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.+ S5 ]7 \* t# J/ T/ g
- Anonymous9 y& r6 ^, {( F: |0 v
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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 ^" z ~7 m0 i- Margaret Thatcher
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
( {* o5 F/ L- J) g, l( J- Jerry Olson4 {6 t( ?( M4 z2 `
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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.' H6 ^0 E( h+ F/ P- Y/ N
- Porterfield
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.! k" [+ H& x- _$ F. @
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899) O. ~8 q s) d3 X- P
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
8 A1 d' |( l) X- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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1 S) b/ k: N& C1 C( E; ZAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
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3 ~: A! u' I5 c w- u/ OAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.. I' E# X* P3 f: y1 X4 @
- Gregory Benford- P% E' a- T' A) z1 N/ Z
; x. P( ^8 P8 b0 Y2 F& A! ?Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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" w- u1 o) `; B) Y3 ?A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
( o% x$ V6 z7 @3 Y) h+ m- Alan J. Perlis+ m$ r* Z) `( {+ @5 x
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.3 q7 G) b/ q1 C) T0 {
- Thomas Edison/ }, J/ y% e2 H [
5 e$ [* M M5 C8 T! L! x8 X0 \Get your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.2 A- |' G% u' b, P% ?
- 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, d- t, s2 b. C2 b; g: g( D/ a
' V2 I5 F4 |! [0 P1 b/ K" Z1 kThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.. @8 z* Z) u4 r( ]7 P) f
- 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.
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) c6 P* e1 y u2 n/ M From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
3 G! k- @) [ A- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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! e& } H4 [' y- J9 v$ t# |Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
( r$ {6 [% ~2 _8 l- Andrew Heller, IBM: p( Q# i3 S O r3 `1 ~- ?
' o9 N& S4 X% h }2 i) b5 ?AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
4 E$ M1 A2 f7 g: N P5 j- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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7 n0 C6 j% R+ L% l; e5 p3 XHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
6 W" w" S! T3 S( e! ?, q" z- Al Gore on Y2K
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6 ^; F K3 @2 aThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
) e6 x0 p1 ?: X: A5 i/ E4 `# N- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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- Linus Torvalds
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/ T; S2 G* O2 E7 }3 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.9 F6 ]! ?! n3 Q" p2 ^' m
- Linus Torvalds/ R2 S& q8 ?& s: s) ]7 A
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Windows is just DOS in drag.4 X$ X& x& F! `4 P: g
- Anonymous
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8 I; f& A6 v2 }6 FThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
1 ^ `3 K0 i+ N7 x6 F- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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