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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.3 c; R* \4 O- v6 `# P
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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& B$ A1 c+ P# h8 y& Q3 {, c( ]% uWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?1 w2 Y+ d. L) `% j! @
- T.S. Elliot$ Z9 P9 S2 t: u2 b$ g" r; M
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.4 _0 j" ~- n: O; B4 I
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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- i2 j% P1 e5 }' s+ w: n0 OThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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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.
* r" j4 Z, A% O% j3 O* P9 u3 L- George Pompidou
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* _; ~" k: M# \ @! c7 FTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.7 r3 u2 w F( z* f8 b# G
- Anonymous
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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.
# N% f3 K+ k, ?& p t- Anonymous
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6 J7 D( ]5 S% V: @, ~2 ~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.4 d- v7 i1 U- K3 X- r
- Andy Rooney
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6 [! b8 l6 G" b6 R9 vIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
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4 @ [: C" K% s! s6 OI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
$ A+ [" ]5 }: l! [- v: x& m- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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a) f/ X& u$ ~ t' \: OIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
1 L) [+ U0 M7 f% ?% ~8 ^4 y6 f- Scott Adams
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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.3 s0 Y* x1 X! \, X% O3 L& g
- Anonymous
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: Q% x$ m [/ H7 S. DIf 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.5 f+ o, W) u5 ^! i3 i
- 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.' O* q- F- a8 y+ D w$ l9 v/ T. x
- Anonymous6 H6 W4 C& W8 w3 I
/ e* ]0 d, ^# P( X7 G$ dThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.$ E0 R w0 o3 X+ b+ B
- Jeremy S. Anderson
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6 V$ |% ^# l- p% q4 ~One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.3 d; D% f0 z. U/ a: K
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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.8 `: d' c7 @2 X- t6 c' v
- Anonymous
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. t) Y1 e; O; oSave early, save often.
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Build early and build often.
S' E7 M1 \1 \3 ]$ V( ]( T- Proprietary developer adage. V, k2 E# o$ p# U! N- M! |) \
3 q- W8 C' J( yRelease early and release often.
' K" ~6 G2 q( i; G- 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.
3 m. l: } \" k# x' c6 w: I# q- 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.( I4 K% B6 B" n
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. T9 V$ j6 P& i) U5 RThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.% p3 j0 y B, @; Q( i; p
- Margaret Thatcher; [5 X2 d9 @# Y9 K; ^% d
# u% o0 C6 q4 x F# S; nThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
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4 H" {% x* ]+ d0 s- mThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.$ ]. C9 o' x; d
- Porterfield
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/ d, f+ O+ l1 T1 H9 \8 zEverything that can be invented has been invented.
% f% [; ^' v8 n- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899, y" H) E( }& w% k& t
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
: b5 h a+ z% [% T1 @% @8 x/ g P- Fairchild Research and Development, 19694 E2 M4 T) l5 Y, _2 z ^
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
1 b& |: W' r4 {2 `* v6 R1 U- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
7 E6 X" M+ P& I( \% g- Gregory Benford
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.6 v4 k( y4 N! X0 m2 L
- Anonymous9 ~1 Z& V8 N; v- Q5 V. A" G
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
: c1 {( m+ R, o& P- Alan J. Perlis- l3 W$ Z) v8 y) a4 m
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
7 g' P) d% {; e0 _* n- 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.: e; E$ H+ i. N1 Q( ]3 k- j
- 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 B! \* Q# y; |6 F
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
: q4 D( [$ B) Q l, D1 g2 n- Senator Bob Dole# ^( g) I1 C1 f
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
3 k* z4 x# r! z$ e1 W6 m( r- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
4 K, q' u- E8 }, t) r2 j- 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.
+ K; A3 |- Q" t' x- Andrew Heller, IBM4 m0 M; [( a9 O3 Y( e; E& G: I. Z
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
% A/ m7 ]8 D0 i- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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( k% ~$ D/ l0 ~$ R: X+ _How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
7 ^3 J5 \# n- M) e3 _# H$ f, k- Al Gore on Y2K
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
0 \ o' N6 Z4 \7 n( p1 m- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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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.3 r0 x+ T$ G8 W& {
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3 B7 i0 O# `3 d4 e tWindows is just DOS in drag.
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- i1 q( m9 Y8 M* zThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
" m/ P# e5 X4 @9 X/ [0 W/ [- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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