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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.+ F2 } ` L' I0 }8 L0 j: k
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum9 j" l* V% M; f: V) p4 ]# d
5 w% i% h) k5 ^8 ?Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
$ g' g. A' x: R+ O9 y7 S: S4 ~! @- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
) I. A% t0 l6 S3 r8 c- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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1 H8 V8 Y4 S5 `The 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.3 `: m1 S2 e" j
- George Pompidou
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9 @8 W; e$ W* ~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.* g }, l5 L& ~( k
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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.
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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.. Z- s+ f+ p7 p8 a, @; E1 F
- 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.
( ?, ~) V6 Q# [5 C' f B) P- 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.
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If 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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$ G/ u/ }( y2 r0 H6 n8 yAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.( G ]' v: W6 k ~6 D2 y
- Anonymous
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9 C; c; e" l) p) y. nThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
4 |. C# D+ _! _5 k6 s( _8 Q5 Q' l5 T- Jeremy S. Anderson; v* z8 s# A" x; S9 I$ z4 U! \8 d
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.9 |; w! a- [9 n
- Elbert Hubbard o8 F# A" K5 P8 m5 g J
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.- e4 U$ E! `% y
- 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.
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Save early, save often. d% a6 t# W' l, n, a# S& Q3 d8 e
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word" R; G4 w: V' h9 l; n$ f
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Build early and build often.
5 I+ U" v' {1 y! j3 ]2 B- Proprietary developer adage
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. H! c$ O: w$ T' n( z( W; nRelease early and release often.9 h9 R8 l: N/ a6 |5 f" z
- Open source developer adage) z: S* q& ^' @# Z9 q* q l
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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+ J0 _- t7 h0 h$ F# n" B, Z8 U, `* l
- Carl Sagan. S0 i! m: u0 [
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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.; j, P5 r) L8 _9 b
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.. e# v0 F: E5 a' U( Q/ c( y
- Jerry Olson2 W% i$ M( ]* {# m
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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.& e2 K( f1 I/ d6 j# t1 `
- Porterfield
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
, P" h- N3 {) G( X- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
' {7 u5 o9 J- F3 g" C- Fairchild Research and Development, 19692 J3 ~7 }+ z/ R9 m
8 K! e2 R) j) a( JAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
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" _; i" {& J7 t/ |, bAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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2 k6 b) g# k- T" N) XA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
2 i; u, I+ {0 K$ F: `- Alan J. Perlis
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
: V" d; ]4 t8 `( J0 k/ n1 {- 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.! {' v. a9 v2 C, h4 w
- 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 developed4 `5 Z# M1 E7 J
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.1 u# c7 d" i# L2 G% m% L
- Popular Mechanics, 1949/ |2 K! O/ B, C& c3 l
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
9 g0 ]- k @* G$ v* ?# X; _- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy, _, Y, ^; r1 u* m
( [! a, z* i0 [) j: N" J4 BTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.. P% c. _( D# z% y0 V: [: i
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive., y4 G! {# {8 C. x4 a% I0 ~5 N/ e
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?: T) C( @/ ~3 s" C _- o
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.% X# M; P+ z; c/ y; U5 @0 j
- 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.
: A4 J$ ?' |, z1 a" P; J: u- 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.
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. U) \7 O) J. h& AWindows is just DOS in drag.
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home. N; c! Q/ ^0 b B& b3 O( v' d7 d
- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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