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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
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5 Q3 }: a3 |. U* }1 OWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.0 B5 Q. t, }. l6 d7 ~
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981. h# s6 \" v3 j2 H
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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+ t% d8 k( v2 l2 l" c: p% g8 h! [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.
/ C$ Y8 _3 m9 S, n$ x6 }( q- George Pompidou2 E% X+ s5 ]0 R1 z( l7 [ w
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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.
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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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4 U; u9 r* x: ^7 ^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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% z( T# H+ u# w7 e2 KIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
7 s' a$ k9 V1 Q% P- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
' |2 g" e3 n b0 M- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943- R& x' k) }6 F. }
8 [) `6 ?" ~, B1 MIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.# v: [2 u. r% U/ G
- Scott Adams' K/ Y) ~7 M: w; F$ W
/ i& C" | K8 R* a# P1 K' S" nIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.9 R Z1 z; G/ w
- Anonymous
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( G! L: ~9 z0 ~2 TIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
- `: h& U8 D$ k# o- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric0 u" C% z2 w5 B7 x, s; |" g
/ `1 C# d R, J5 L- Q6 sAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.0 h# x% J6 C- s0 n# h2 A/ o
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* }' ~& c d1 Q& ~7 YThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.2 @8 e3 p; l$ R& F
- 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.
' o( r% i- u0 h/ H% c# J- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
" r9 F& ?# P( u8 e) t# {- 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.3 T# F4 B2 u* u2 i$ Q( j% {
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often.
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Release early and release often.! O/ o9 v, j6 m- D6 {
- Open source developer adage3 G9 j0 y3 \( M1 K
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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.4 \0 v( P! ^/ T7 m$ C. v. `: a6 Q. w
- Carl Sagan/ {3 {6 L% V. n3 s% H1 s& Y# V
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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.- _( s! A [; L' [3 P/ `# x' `: K2 g
- Anonymous/ W9 Y' x2 ^- }* I
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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.
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
4 Y( \3 \( v" M- 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.9 E0 }! M" R- ?# O2 n9 X% |. @4 T
- Porterfield
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' `; X- R4 Q: B$ @" ^) s- g$ _) n1 j ZEverything that can be invented has been invented.' ~% W; y0 p8 H% N
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 18998 o$ j1 W5 V% Y% L) G# o. p
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- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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/ @9 Q! D3 i/ D- s- q3 J5 oAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.* X7 {" o0 ?. z
- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
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8 a4 Z( ]% M/ w( K# Z! E0 B0 \' Y ]Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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. a V, w( w* K$ Q: CA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.$ q) I F% M/ R; k8 h, ]; ~
- Alan J. Perlis
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+ t7 E5 R6 c9 u! ?3 X2 z% EI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.: C" m' a% O7 I' Y
- Thomas Edison
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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.5 V1 h4 K6 h! c
- 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' y2 [( D3 H+ n" d5 L
K5 ]6 L( L3 T/ s2 _) S0 jThe 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.
" M4 @5 M5 S' c! H- B% b& W) [- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.. K5 K E( q! J0 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.1 j5 s& v k4 P! R+ Y1 E
- Andrew Heller, IBM3 l2 |6 R- D: b, K% D& @9 x
. [; U/ {/ d: e0 d4 AAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
# }; ?+ V" f t1 x- X/ A4 f' o- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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/ t6 [4 `% }6 PHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
# U2 ?9 L: E% d8 a; C/ u% l- Al Gore on Y2K4 P2 b8 P q6 x# ~, L+ A d
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- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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: W- C* l" e$ x! c8 Y9 G' b- K" oThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
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0 j5 z7 @' p) |5 ZTo 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.
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+ I( o" _& O; q% ^0 [Windows is just DOS in drag.5 A# T# A+ s. M5 I( g, w
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.5 L6 t+ _/ J; X: @) X
- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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