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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?
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+ e7 O; h+ j) D; F7 T- ?640K ought to be enough for anybody.
& D0 q0 \1 L8 n/ X& o0 _- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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* [" X# k4 [+ L7 b$ Y5 h% ]% y; {9 qThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.% D1 K2 F& h' @& v
- B. F. Skinner; ~3 I, {* n A! T
3 c& i# n4 u: u( [2 ~4 w1 bThere 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.
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8 C( d' i$ X: m$ d/ u$ s( DTechnology 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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g8 p# R* u0 y- K! g4 U7 K$ U; o5 IFor 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.
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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.
! _% ?" l; [. u- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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) X' x* ? P- c$ M' Y" }If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
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: P q n* x. q" _In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.. F! O0 _0 R" k) ?
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.7 ]2 ]8 Z! G! y1 u1 x) @
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! c6 e3 p( X8 Z" A3 r1 Z$ uThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
9 c+ W$ S1 M3 z9 Y" F7 i* l6 F, R- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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: V1 j# E3 p5 V7 bAt 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.
; k& O$ J% n- ]' f, x: c6 Y- 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.
; Y `' P5 i6 }4 Q# y I- Elbert Hubbard
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. T& \. g" b" B* G- p5 E1 d6 }Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.$ i" D% G9 U; |
- 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.5 o D D q2 s' \% x! E& |) d' o7 Q
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# V L1 t+ V- t# t% O3 A f$ K* }Save early, save often.
: S' I" B% O2 x$ N: e- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word5 ^: j6 A. ]: c3 M3 g0 O* h
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Build early and build often.: D8 t/ U9 n( N, ]
- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often.
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9 R5 x) q! }) ZWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
- C% m+ c: h! s% q- Carl Sagan8 g# n5 ]- l2 x0 f% ~0 E a1 W
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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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" n5 L6 `' V( L9 X- ~, QThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
" ~) F {1 M3 d2 l- Margaret Thatcher
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+ s9 Q( ?9 Q$ H' I1 Z$ _The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
; F2 |8 s& l4 w l4 W+ Y) q( A- 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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5 u5 M& C2 I9 u; q$ }/ }/ sEverything that can be invented has been invented." @& q) N1 o) }5 M
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899" d3 o+ v- F+ _* I* q9 G
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT3 k+ G& s1 a) Q" R: |& }5 Q5 r
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
! P. L$ @# j- K# M& D) {- Arthur C. Clarke3 `) |, h$ o6 T' b
* p0 w- ~9 G+ K7 R! s" f+ J7 }Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
( e, t) `/ o- J, [# N" @% P- A- Gregory Benford- i2 ?/ c/ ?7 X
) `% f' j( I! g$ tNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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) ^" C7 U) K2 q8 ~ m8 ~3 ^A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.: c1 m/ s( x6 i, \$ W
- Alan J. Perlis
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
& X6 R/ l8 V+ u, Y- X8 r" r- Thomas Edison& h6 x5 C: H$ p: U' v0 [
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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.
9 S+ z' F. ]. ?* F( A% W% f5 b- 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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1 K5 f% n4 m* l3 \The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
% ]" ]+ d; L2 e# \: Y1 s9 J- Senator Bob Dole
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2 a$ G, m3 M- K7 w: XComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons., e1 k, F7 q% ^$ o M$ x4 M9 _
- Popular Mechanics, 1949 e& Y1 z- [( t' r
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.2 u* s$ r! b ~' o* r) t
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy; n# C( W8 r. p R1 M1 ]( K
) X2 t2 i+ a; f1 ?% CTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.9 W9 |! v. d2 b& O# \5 Z$ u
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.3 c0 Z% ]: h2 J! Y R
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos; h! E, B% ]5 S5 ]1 \- Z/ M
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How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
. U3 T4 \; C$ ^% |: x- Al Gore on Y2K
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" X5 j9 m1 {9 `/ @The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.! `' Q7 `* I# d! \. z
- Sydney Brenner in 1927! |9 K3 D- g& V% H) N: c# I
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The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
% j% m3 h9 l. `4 e& R/ t, R- 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.
" ?) A0 A# l" C. l3 q; f) i9 p- Linus Torvalds
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4 W& ?' g( W/ h6 ]% o8 x3 GWindows is just DOS in drag.
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
- t V( }2 @6 j b, n- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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