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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.0 K5 p: b* d% _- k. U% P4 c8 ]
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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: Z0 [% v% k1 W3 ?6 KWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
+ R3 S" B5 D$ Q( u* H. F3 a- T.S. Elliot
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+ }) K0 j- x: s* U640K ought to be enough for anybody.8 H/ l8 M: o( B
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 19818 i2 @: {* ?" w
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
: s1 }/ G, R% ~- ?/ O- B. F. Skinner
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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.: a7 J3 X' F# a+ u& ?% T9 w
- George Pompidou
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- C; G5 B! F# nTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.: }& T* e- v* D
- Anonymous; {6 S/ \' |! C) [
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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., r7 s! `8 S4 A7 x
- Anonymous
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( K; l! g. h( A1 BComputers 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.
( A4 w. Y5 k: K- Andy Rooney
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.; y. |" G& p+ D) k* {/ j! H
- Richard Power
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# p f, N" q( K3 [I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. J# A$ C K+ `# J' o- A( e7 h( J
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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4 e6 ~, _2 K) ]: Q8 kIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.0 j, [% C6 f% z# @; ^% F
- Scott Adams7 ]2 k( ~- m; K; Z! a! J
. `& W3 x U* [% J( sIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.5 l3 D1 n) s6 N6 y' b" c
- Anonymous8 b$ W/ D: ~1 G0 n" A
* k8 o* x: M1 d% L" _1 _If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
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6 p' q' I2 c$ @+ l- W1 `* YThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
! Y( E% W f6 p4 l9 n- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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1 f) B. g' M# a7 _! a( TAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user." E# `1 A7 @6 x/ c e% x
- Anonymous( a- k/ f1 l+ `' z, A, X0 V% d
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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.
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
3 X) B: C3 ]. ~) T# l% _" L, u# u- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be." [, u4 V5 G% e- j8 X+ F# h
- 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.
U' v% u0 G+ N9 N! A6 F9 r- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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z2 p- d, l% W# U' q0 z/ o9 NBuild early and build often.
8 n* {' E! L( e z" |6 `! K- Proprietary developer adage
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- p' E0 j0 K5 o, x8 B0 MRelease early and release often.- |) l& `# C& T3 w) n( }4 Q' a
- Open source developer adage
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" n# R' Z* U' w+ _We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology., R% ~+ x+ x- k, m" N; S
- Carl Sagan+ n1 r( Z& j5 M4 i$ u
; H$ k7 z8 A* [# _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.; n7 g. L6 j0 F
- Anonymous3 ]9 D) ^# l9 P7 m9 N. Y) }2 |
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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.' M3 P% F9 }6 z* O" \- Z6 |) Q
- Margaret Thatcher
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3 p8 x. v0 X2 @2 {0 H5 f* pThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
; @$ M1 T' {) x- [' q- T& ?4 \3 c- Jerry Olson
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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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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
u+ z% x$ m1 {! \4 M9 X; `- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
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2 w" k. l% }, N( ?Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
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" }- z' C; o/ `( f3 w. L& N! ~Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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$ U- q6 g' z& P$ D; r( Y8 QA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
/ a7 @. Z/ V5 B/ v9 ]- Alan J. Perlis# z6 ~+ v" n. E; [& U
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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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.! T+ m6 L2 s1 {; o
- 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
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7 Q( f) Z9 x1 g- r1 v6 HThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.5 t: y# [' g$ J' C# X; z, c
- Senator Bob Dole$ I2 |9 k1 q2 N! U* {4 I
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons., W1 `' `* `! H6 J# i. q3 ^
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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k1 l2 e$ [) w0 h From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.6 b2 ~/ u {% f: ]1 B
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy/ K* {* j# [! |$ T2 R R2 {: O
+ O2 h; L) D+ n* |Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
/ c1 B4 [4 j( Z8 G+ E' A; i- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.3 c+ @- z$ l J3 [( l. ?: P @
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
5 J6 E3 l7 `) j. l- 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.5 T) a1 Z# s! N8 c0 T) r* Y6 S
- 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.
" {, H3 F8 b* @5 v4 [; A( B4 o, V- G- Linus Torvalds
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Windows is just DOS in drag.
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. |+ a/ V+ t$ t5 k1 `/ h& r/ kThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.& I' ~* ~4 ]1 G2 a
- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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