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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?" X# ^+ T* p# j0 g# B9 f
- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.) p/ o) i0 p0 M+ B* O# r
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 19817 V+ ~5 n( f8 h4 k0 _3 o, S6 g
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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0 { {! x1 W) ]+ ]/ }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.
! @7 @. i, |% J Z3 x( \- George Pompidou
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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.( p; z' M+ X- j6 T1 L5 {1 J" E, [
- Anonymous
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( J) T. d# h9 ?: a2 a. ?' L8 dFor 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.. G0 G* @7 i, s
- Anonymous
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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.
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.9 f' d9 Z c- O/ b" a8 t- U
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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4 _& J# r3 A' i& A# g; D7 o2 @If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.4 h4 ^8 B$ I3 N7 W, ~9 [
- Scott Adams' q3 r) ?! i+ O
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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.$ P3 E5 ?4 c) n. E6 M) E
- Bradley's Bromide
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; w2 T* @& o {The Internet is the Viagra of big business.' T' U4 l" U. r) e$ y3 u
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric; y! P3 }6 o5 g" c3 D& H6 |1 M
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At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user./ T3 ?6 w, T& m$ i O3 j
- Anonymous! V3 I. }/ v3 m% j% n/ H% B% Z
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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.% z8 ^) z9 L% {6 B& H' a- A% j
- 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.
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
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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.- e9 [3 U. k0 t% s# L! p; i
- Anonymous
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* ^+ _; e5 ^! J6 R+ e; j8 oSave early, save often." N6 R0 E/ o6 a
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word5 N: v0 L7 c# ~; w# A
! s& C" X. T' B+ F" hBuild early and build often.) t @2 n7 B$ c2 c
- Proprietary developer adage
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6 v, a/ _, ?4 |- j# I+ XRelease early and release often.8 a4 p0 ^* w, j# @8 U0 J
- Open source developer adage% N- G- J2 \/ i' E1 ^
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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.
6 B6 I6 d# y( U9 j9 v8 N( |- Carl Sagan
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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., c" o' T$ W/ R G+ {
- Anonymous
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) D5 {" d; y" A/ [6 k$ W- EThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.# Z1 z! i0 O F/ V4 M& \" k
- Margaret Thatcher# y- x8 M. c0 ]; b6 k A V
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.+ O8 b9 x! ?; h2 v8 y
- Jerry Olson
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$ G% ]8 T0 o2 j, N0 U) uThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.1 B) E5 Q+ Q1 v+ ?1 z
- Porterfield
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5 N1 \ z i7 V, ~6 wEverything that can be invented has been invented., _& x, N* E# Q: |& T0 d: r" ~
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 18999 ?7 e; X* H9 O0 B
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT( a9 M$ y, c, c' X# d" u
- Fairchild Research and Development, 19694 G' k% O7 h. f- b
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- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.3 Z4 o/ U8 z: t5 Y0 _
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' C7 q& C7 h2 o+ A& JNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.5 Z+ }6 p: a- e% ?8 G: K
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.; z3 C4 q" ?/ e% z3 {
- Alan J. Perlis
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.' p( k+ S$ O/ ]
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! ?7 B0 Q8 S9 M# X) t1 DGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
" Z" |& [) M0 f+ E# y- 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 developed1 W1 f& j* U$ J' y) T' {* Q
0 \( I" e8 Z- _% h8 VThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
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- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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- s- G) i, C. b; F& r" N ~; | From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
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) R+ L8 `9 j0 N4 |8 V3 }4 VTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
7 Y$ A: m$ W$ m9 O* N& e7 {- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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* ?/ z! _, S' X5 O: IHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
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% ^/ _# z* g) c5 o3 s- fThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
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6 l4 `" G! ^1 B4 n G4 S3 e, U6 @The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
9 Y3 V! f$ H# C- Linus Torvalds
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: W% e: l" T+ p! `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." C" M) l3 d/ d1 m. s3 Q
- Linus Torvalds9 s) ^' C- P3 I4 K
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Windows is just DOS in drag.) n! e# B8 }3 a; d5 @5 r9 W
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
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