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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.- w: y) X7 w7 b3 B6 ^/ ^6 K+ l* d
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum9 s$ H2 [0 H! }# c
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.0 k8 Z+ W& [+ y2 y6 b, l
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.3 W6 I8 |. n+ Y0 s7 n$ [ u' t7 L
- B. F. Skinner
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. Y8 _+ B" `. h8 S: C# z. _. [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.
" Y# l% ]3 i w& g# h+ [- George Pompidou& u+ E* {7 M: `. S9 J( m- |( A& Z
! B8 j6 B4 q# w( S% y! f: ITechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.' c* c. C2 ]6 C: _
- Anonymous6 b6 Y) a% c# a
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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.
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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.
d- E3 C- v" N6 l# v+ z- Andy Rooney
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.( ^7 B/ @$ x6 y g; F
- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
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' a# b" h2 f3 [+ S4 CIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
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+ z# K& \, j! j& v! S1 V8 NIn 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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' ^# L. [3 a( {) a( z; u* zIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.& Y3 C# P9 t/ S; K6 t0 |& J0 U) N
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3 z; p6 R% A2 R U. u" R- P* xThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
) A" j8 e9 I; T1 K- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
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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.
7 H; {/ u5 I3 C' b- Jeremy S. Anderson. d1 W: U( {- g, J/ |+ t
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.; N. \) E% E# e
- Elbert Hubbard+ J# ^/ G0 F K) ^' y! N" w: }: T
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
4 ^. } a9 p+ Y' p- David Thornburg+ | {( N6 n1 f. j* H# K& R
( q+ X- _& o6 V- B7 _5 U% y: {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./ e9 [# g9 A* B" a8 }& m# |- f- y. A
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word- M5 i# c4 \) G8 a2 W+ y/ A
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Build early and build often.
: i) K0 F- `/ d# Z) [* E' c; N: i [- Proprietary developer adage( R- v# _; ~$ g k4 H
$ }& e- G% G$ m1 `( D& c# ^Release early and release often.
9 |& @: [' }& n9 y. R3 l- Open source developer adage
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8 p9 l! E; v: T1 f: C* V% i# oWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.! c8 B' G1 y3 Y7 V" J3 ~
- Carl Sagan7 @5 N3 Y& t% N6 Q9 \# s; e
0 p0 A w3 a; J$ _# u1 jIf 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.: ]! F7 y% ?: J9 C- P9 I+ m
- Anonymous
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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.
- a# I2 b; Z4 j K. N9 z2 }6 x- Margaret Thatcher
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I1 [+ a6 W- o* ]The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
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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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; }4 C0 }% n+ e6 b1 J! \Everything that can be invented has been invented., g% Z2 h0 O$ O4 a( q h8 y5 ~
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899' E, T+ ~$ c$ C# N
6 k5 N$ e7 t( z& `GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
+ M* b/ ? S9 N! I, n" R( c- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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O9 |7 q. H$ [4 @4 YAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.9 B7 b% q* }2 ? a, @2 P
- Arthur C. Clarke
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2 [1 a3 g7 D# p; E7 SAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.8 I# H$ g. F6 W7 l7 J: H
- Anonymous0 {/ ]& a @2 A/ J8 u5 V9 |* x F
0 I" O0 ^$ b+ ?' p% GA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.# O4 \9 x, J. n8 n0 Q7 C
- Alan J. Perlis; j' }# Z) `: F
+ N" l( O+ }2 I, L$ L! e7 JI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.8 q1 T' o! n9 j+ O) @ p+ O
- Thomas Edison& P, e5 N- S; R
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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.
' F& j0 i" Q. K! D4 p' C1 ~- 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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, ` _# h' W) X: |, U$ wThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.( n) Q2 S) }& c7 N) O
- Popular Mechanics, 1949+ l7 x" Q( o( p% D" s
2 |) E2 u9 d2 M( z- i8 u6 q* | From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.1 }% E$ r" c8 k! @
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy& {3 B/ w: ]' U9 S' J
2 c, m( E) ?* ~) z9 S2 Y6 X+ P! JTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
- K9 b" ~) f/ E- Andrew Heller, IBM* V! d G; P5 U B
6 q g) T( H: ?/ yAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.7 `5 P) L7 j* H: d, C c. A
- 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., W, D6 q3 N) w, W: b
- Sydney Brenner in 1927* k! |" R' ?8 l+ M. d- |
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The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
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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.7 u G9 _, S! V7 q* y+ b
- Linus Torvalds( ] u: P, T! b; |& T
" V) @/ `8 Y% y) J- j% f9 f2 g. `Windows is just DOS in drag." H% U; s: ^1 S" o& W* s$ B
- Anonymous
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- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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