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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?1 x) L5 a0 c0 d, {; l1 s
- T.S. Elliot4 C' a" {9 d9 f
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
" B* n- z( m# m0 v- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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8 d: Z5 k& x A" [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.* D( \. U& O4 K/ z/ z
- George Pompidou; z) i0 O( W. D1 i2 A. U
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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.: n& L9 g$ ~& o# e' s3 U! p9 A
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* o$ i% q. j" I9 ?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.
: O- V4 A' x X" D- Andy Rooney
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6 b. \7 ~2 F5 H, d5 U4 AIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.9 `, S& @" g/ t5 L( V
- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
; X$ V2 j/ z1 m+ R4 }. \- 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.. x7 @5 P6 X) r- H5 q) D9 S. i) [
- Scott Adams/ F* j3 w# v/ [- ?/ M" U
9 F# R; J: y$ m& x1 GIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it./ M1 H" [* A v9 l
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) s- h" N3 Z+ v, R/ XIf 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.
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At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.8 w0 }0 ]: l/ I( R4 A/ V
- Anonymous
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) ]- _% A' k+ y, k6 XThere 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.
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7 O7 ^. o8 v' Y* G) LAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.- H, H5 P" n" P1 g5 |+ R
- David Thornburg) P! e2 a' ~" w$ j
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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.0 o/ J6 F4 \0 p5 z! y' A/ T9 ~: D+ `) {
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word* _9 U0 k6 I; N2 z
1 T: G% K8 F9 }6 P$ ]. T! [Build early and build often.
4 f3 I$ G& |/ K6 J5 i, L- Proprietary developer adage y( a) ?3 W$ @2 P" W2 }$ O
2 v% q* V* n1 t( S" G2 ARelease early and release often.
! \2 Q* n- C/ c( {- Open source developer adage
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+ j6 c: c1 R/ SWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.3 s5 V! j& Z" j5 K7 M2 h
- Carl Sagan5 d3 h( I6 Q* m
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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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0 F& o6 \0 J4 K1 Z" ^There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.6 H" l7 y$ ~: Y2 l* o
- Margaret Thatcher' X; J5 Z- H' Z7 y& J
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.4 g& Z( N1 T: ~* T7 N2 Q
- 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.- ]! c- f6 ]6 _
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, J. C( ?4 J: LEverything that can be invented has been invented.; a V* c7 \% W+ o1 `3 ]5 Y3 Q. Q
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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* c1 ]" j# y. i6 d3 v8 a' CGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT: j, y% Y6 P& T) x
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969: w! X0 L0 a/ y4 ^& I+ C7 ~
4 b& Z+ j) Z' s: KAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.+ d1 B7 g3 b/ b4 P& R6 [0 I
- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.( C8 q/ d3 U- Q) p- C! p0 M0 T
- Anonymous
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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$ k' o# y" \5 n. S! b- }0 A5 `Get your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.+ n9 {$ U' i! N' {: L e
- 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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6 U2 z* }# w+ D: O1 S. wThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.! o9 A8 I* W2 X8 L. |, l p3 c
- Senator Bob Dole% ^! Q/ X. K. \0 _3 _; Z
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- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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/ G4 \- g0 c# I6 ]/ R7 G From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
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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.
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How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?) n5 \0 K1 ]9 w% `' H- a' N
- Al Gore on Y2K# r7 B8 d/ Z0 }+ }. |7 Z
- n, N: w O( z8 h6 f/ l* j) Q, O1 o2 SThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
% j( r: H% \6 {" }: x5 q# z- Sydney Brenner in 1927, w" I4 d5 u* O Y+ d% ]; a9 {
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The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
6 b- z- }4 G/ C5 h7 v% d1 k- Linus Torvalds
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( V8 ~2 @: s- n& g. H1 F8 _- QTo 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.& G6 R9 C& y* D0 C
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" c! V& P7 {! Y; E. kWindows is just DOS in drag.; W$ t9 m) o# k* z2 \6 r- {* O* F: ?
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N7 d' [$ y% b0 T& qThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.. u4 J6 @3 X/ q
- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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