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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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- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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' n" b2 f. Q& Y& R# j% DThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
8 A+ Y& n1 L. z$ J0 e- B. F. Skinner
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; p" |9 b4 n8 y$ g! k# A: R" l1 cThere 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.
3 P: t6 x, ~2 o# A- F) Z$ v |- George Pompidou4 ^7 e; @) G6 `' u, s
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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.* y6 i6 ?/ `- 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.
8 g, W' F) b+ P1 ^# c- [/ {2 K- Andy Rooney
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.3 ]1 j: a8 e) R$ b0 H# s) z
- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.* m3 T. N r! L6 A/ x
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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% l" o: g3 d. YIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.$ z9 p# k$ r5 P( z7 R$ J4 x
- Scott Adams
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/ L. H+ ~! a7 g3 C" @0 C# l- zIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.7 x* f; }: _# i. S
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.2 b3 ?- x# `4 a/ K" T, e. y3 t
- Bradley's Bromide
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t6 z: U. [1 D0 b# m/ Q* lThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.- Q0 d/ e6 s) z0 @
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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5 _; M- P% V+ S) }" Z' OAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
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( u+ a$ \1 ]! E" W& }There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.# g+ j' x) U O
- Elbert Hubbard6 F$ U! C! m; ~8 s* O5 w
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
7 ~" J1 i- h0 l. g9 J9 O- David Thornburg% O/ E% g; q4 r) N7 v7 R
0 D0 p U1 O. A' q' M( O: ~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.1 W. s# F' x* j' G
- Anonymous3 K& L! g' i! ?# Y4 S1 [- x& A
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Save early, save often.
8 r/ i0 U/ {2 g) A+ e1 U: `( ~$ V- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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: H" f2 ] K5 d: Y0 V: |* PBuild early and build often.
4 u2 m [9 J9 F1 f2 F- Proprietary developer adage
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/ N! B f7 z1 y3 ^( KRelease early and release often.
5 A' {/ v- Z$ k- j# F$ v- 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.; t) [( d1 q2 {* O
- 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.! s! J" E, d; N, c0 ]5 Z
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6 J) p) D6 |9 fThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
. w: z) j% U) o. a+ j- Margaret Thatcher
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4 u& E* G; m# D2 H( _' O; W& yThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.) g2 t" l2 Z4 H, y L! A- L
- 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.0 R8 n* C9 n$ K$ e' F6 O, s
- Porterfield
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A2 I3 `0 s/ p$ q/ v& E# G1 V5 kEverything that can be invented has been invented.4 d) h6 M% s" c5 U
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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. O7 G$ X0 D! k0 f! X* M+ vGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT% B. D% J8 G: p, w+ \
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.( ~4 i1 H0 A D7 s
- Arthur C. Clarke- M* G3 C7 V' X4 @6 i
5 {' R( E+ K3 ~Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
$ ^( ]8 U" S9 e- m! E- Gregory Benford4 }8 t! @6 c3 A. n+ Y. ]
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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: k% ]- `/ x) S0 e2 ^2 vA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.3 }/ ~3 ]: n+ d5 z" L! ^' `
- Alan J. Perlis
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; ]& R, |9 f2 F2 PI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.( d0 a4 _4 ^! K2 A
- Thomas Edison
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0 B, H# D% R! u; V, p7 zGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product." ^. q5 n% R8 T- p% T# Q: y: R
- 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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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
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2 _7 T( r. w$ ]5 W3 }+ c2 o6 PComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.& B6 |2 A4 Y2 y& O& R5 i/ j3 i
- Popular Mechanics, 19495 V1 X, l# D0 e* D
! u9 b1 V6 t" T. R5 B# m( i From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.) C! G5 l8 [" h' w9 U
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy" x) D: ^- B5 Z6 ], F' W" {1 C
3 w% u: a- _( eTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
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6 x( z: d/ V3 c, ^3 J8 p! Z" gHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
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- ?# K5 f4 H( P( sThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
2 E% C4 j3 o6 g) P- Sydney Brenner in 1927" d2 H8 m: w+ h! W: B) r' w
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The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.. C) w/ F! S' c2 P+ _2 ~
- Linus Torvalds
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0 x: v6 G& c+ 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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Windows is just DOS in drag.
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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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