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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
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4 P1 W# G3 K4 X. r% y$ E4 NWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?0 U+ J- Z" b' p! v
- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
; h( }) z8 A: v# F- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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Q; @; G: I% kThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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. _+ l3 k! C: C% ` U& z8 dThere 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.! u, U+ N5 }# V2 o: u9 V+ g
- George Pompidou& e) x! {) s) p' d5 D4 t
5 ^" z3 f" K" s7 `, L* U/ ]4 X. qTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.9 y! Y- d+ u1 a! _3 u; ~" ~7 P
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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.& ^ ]+ d3 Z4 D: y2 X8 b! C
- Andy Rooney2 o& d7 }& @) ~: t' ?) u( g& c
: f* x: D: H5 i* XIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
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/ m2 z" Q( L# \I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.5 b+ S" V" A/ z
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
4 d* k) f; _1 G! G. v M- Scott Adams
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; d6 G W) F3 D) @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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) d& ]% y9 |1 u) ]If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
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& N: l/ G. O1 S/ RThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
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At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.- D" r( y$ P/ ]" [
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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.* _& X$ n; W6 S- t
- 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.' r6 @( o& q/ F8 ]! v1 t7 N }& z
- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.; N/ w5 h' W/ W1 g( _* E3 L
- 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.# [/ |8 w0 W. `& w3 E! k& N! P
- Anonymous
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4 Q; |7 \: e9 n2 `; Y6 g4 C2 qSave early, save often.
& S2 W. {6 v6 u/ @. S- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often.4 q O$ j" n$ K6 B
- Proprietary developer adage6 }8 X5 z) Y5 I. @( p
* ~+ R5 F: v: q0 h, r3 zRelease early and release often.
& a6 X3 a/ S0 l7 |- Open source developer adage
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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.
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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.
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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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+ _8 V" m& H9 X' s: R {) pThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
v* E/ X2 W$ f3 o, T- 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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* U) L2 ?0 ~% P$ yEverything that can be invented has been invented.% ]+ r# g9 t- k2 i- P% N' D
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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- f8 L/ G0 u' C: ~$ Q% ^# f- bGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
4 T* @. k \* p, q- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969; a7 h3 H2 Q8 Z* s* t1 g
! n4 h: t8 {0 {5 f3 D& `Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.$ _8 Z$ I0 N0 C& x/ A1 b5 X
- Gregory Benford2 L: v3 N2 |6 N" d2 t6 V& w& B& k
8 j- c F' u8 F0 ~6 K% f+ G SNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.2 L& ~* f. I# g7 L
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.3 O5 X1 E' B7 h
- Alan J. Perlis
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! i- {; |: L; L7 C) l7 ?0 HI 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." k' n. J9 F4 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+ k. n0 w: p0 N a
1 }7 v: p7 w! M, MThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.7 k+ T/ v' R& e- C( b8 w
- Senator Bob Dole
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" O( F5 e* j3 G" E& VComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.# X( v: @- P1 P$ @' ]) u
- Popular Mechanics, 19496 }, @: K( f9 V
4 ?) Y3 {; A2 x6 t1 U From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.6 a+ O7 L6 D. Z3 j
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy% L; O `! h: D) D! t
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- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.5 }9 i9 U$ z4 Z
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos+ W' b) D3 ]5 G: E) ^
: d& A9 x2 c7 ^0 \: rHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
+ F' q% \# m5 x, ~- Al Gore on Y2K
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# p1 X2 s! V% _0 z, w CThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent., a3 o2 }, g! R/ w/ _- O" W/ L/ U6 @
- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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! _* l& e# ]1 u5 B6 fThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.3 s! c+ L$ u( c: L
- Linus Torvalds& [) k/ L9 [2 r+ M% E! z
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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.) M& e" w- C3 q& I( K
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Windows is just DOS in drag.
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% z6 D3 f3 h* T+ X! H3 |There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.. o% {, I% k# i$ P9 o/ d
- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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