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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
3 v* u3 G0 w# p6 Y- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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, b: u* A( [' {1 c5 v& c; Y& @Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
! f% o1 m2 R! \$ h7 l4 ?( w4 I- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
# H* J# q: m7 G5 Q* Y7 C- Y0 p- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 19816 I7 V0 E7 l7 h% C1 {2 U. E
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.2 y8 Z( U& W9 I$ Z0 d2 |$ l
- B. F. Skinner
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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.0 H; _# m% t' I1 z+ @" o m8 c
- George Pompidou
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' i6 ~9 Z& }" G5 V; `3 v' k hTechnology 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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' {0 e- z! \, P3 L! [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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; l2 f+ e# [* C4 k7 cComputers 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.) A, G& r# S0 w6 |
- Andy Rooney/ c2 z, Q7 H! _+ A
. f. w& l* X( t# v' W0 rIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
2 z3 m5 N G M$ v( I! i* C- Richard Power
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$ K- N" g. N4 r& \+ QI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.9 U1 F3 [( ^# @+ l) q
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 19430 g3 f/ R+ T5 L. N; V* P
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done." h* T- {4 p% M% z
- Scott Adams" {$ d- c" D7 h3 i7 w
4 M5 h, m6 C# N) a: k) NIn 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.% m9 j* w6 G6 C9 Y$ m8 t
- Bradley's Bromide
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.) f9 f" F! D* l) N; F' F8 ?+ Z3 z
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric! Z% B W! B7 m
# B9 v) ?! k+ i' v- YAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
& [: N ^' p4 U4 _* ?- Anonymous
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7 p5 Z! ]9 n4 x4 {There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.& p+ `; z4 }, R9 `
- Jeremy S. Anderson1 @7 h+ \0 ]4 O0 Y
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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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% ]' ]/ C9 O: Q wAny 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., Z! z' ]% t+ p1 L# n" j
- Anonymous
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; t2 P2 D; F- A0 @8 ASave early, save often.
; _8 O \( D' |+ p! @* \+ Y- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word5 u, T' e, t) ^# S2 ]
! P+ d% f- N( @/ X2 {3 K- uBuild early and build often.
7 U4 X- P4 V, k/ \ X4 z- Proprietary developer adage+ P8 g) | S$ _$ |% o4 T
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Release early and release often.
0 j3 |1 I% Q2 M. D1 W4 C- 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.
; O, ^7 c7 i) b: O- Carl Sagan
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) V3 j; ^: `1 l# S9 X" j4 y/ Q% r, `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.4 o- E9 }% I7 k) t3 v2 A, o4 Y) b
- Anonymous
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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.
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.. v0 a& J; N. S
- Jerry Olson3 E0 Z% A- z' i9 v5 c" _
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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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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
, I/ M3 F! n3 }4 C- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899$ D, o4 [( a9 ~
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
( F3 Z) p: f1 K- D6 A- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
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" x+ a& k+ F% f( V S( RAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.% Q" ?' G0 `/ y& {4 ?" S# g
- Gregory Benford# [4 m. `( m' N) @9 y0 j {3 P
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.. S9 [! f8 o i% t/ C
- Anonymous
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$ l4 A' b6 u4 W/ l9 |1 ]# JA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
# o/ a( K; U9 B. l! k* `- Alan J. Perlis% F( E7 K& _( b* _
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.% t6 J- B/ P! w+ a* Y8 D
- Thomas Edison
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2 s [+ Q" F/ N6 qGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
, t. ?0 E4 t) v; P& s1 c/ k! T- 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* K5 e7 A/ }0 D! i
; U0 W. r8 p$ uThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.. p- o$ [" b' c& Z' o
- Senator Bob Dole9 }; U& C/ [( ~0 {3 K o7 [# U
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons./ Z; u, K2 u2 j5 d2 L+ V
- Popular Mechanics, 19493 s$ p+ v z) B3 ~% B
# n; N( v- h6 b" X! r2 h From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.+ u: Z7 S( }5 b: k
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy% I3 P; k! r v* x5 N
* X N" G' d* h# cTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
) {4 }5 f! ]! g$ h- n- O- E: q5 b& |- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.6 [( ^2 n: I% q3 Q* X3 x
- 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?9 H G/ I C8 C" w* l! Y2 x
- Al Gore on Y2K
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
/ E# l, X9 J6 ^ K9 ?% ?' a0 H- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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2 K; j, [8 h! z! h" c4 v; GThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.* m5 \- k; U( `. \7 G2 n
- Linus Torvalds
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' l& r, ?# l j( a6 d7 u* a) BTo 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.
2 E& ]* w) u. M9 R/ T; j( S* ]- Linus Torvalds
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! S/ R3 @8 {8 D3 O4 R' f# O& RWindows is just DOS in drag. L6 [0 y2 A& l+ [1 z0 }8 Y
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2 F/ `! U* d; M: k1 X+ yThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.- ~5 q5 M Q6 J3 W2 R
- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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