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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.+ O4 K, ^0 ]+ x; n' ~# R6 B, {4 |
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
* m7 ~1 h9 r1 A N, O7 V8 m, y2 Z- T.S. Elliot
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1 Q J) r8 p9 [& s- v* o" ]640K ought to be enough for anybody.9 j$ e3 t* K- {
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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6 Y% p- S+ |9 i. i9 G4 [The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.& `3 z7 B1 v u G& M- `
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) ?$ h" W8 J2 J6 J$ fThere 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.9 S/ U; H( W7 T2 N* B/ W% S; N
- George Pompidou4 n, f/ O# _1 k; Z; _2 w3 B
3 F- n9 K/ a ^% x! E( u( TTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
( g1 S) {. s9 k& a' n- Anonymous
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, h) P. ]1 G+ v0 d' kFor 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.. f9 b% Y# o* g$ C" o
- Anonymous
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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.
3 h! m) {# {4 a! L' H8 V- Andy Rooney
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- Z9 j4 z- i1 YIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
: p. Q9 u7 h+ x! ?6 X) n [! D- Richard Power: _: V, i4 z$ |, k1 w* }
5 s) m8 L' [( J2 f$ ^I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
7 X/ h3 q' y7 f$ o6 ^1 X6 ?6 S- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943: U' y" C7 T' a# ^# d2 f
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.+ l* v R+ |0 g+ k/ Y/ I
- Scott Adams
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6 F- C) D, A, a) s% ?# o. v6 vIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.* r" R4 Y& S. E3 K
- Anonymous+ u0 g/ g9 n- u% q; ?
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
" `$ S( N- X' i; B- Bradley's Bromide
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.7 x6 t3 S' U! x% E1 V: S) H
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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3 }& V, {0 r* b5 E* KAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
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4 p# T8 [/ e# Q" U( DThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
+ C# f& @) {, @- Jeremy S. Anderson2 D% ~+ M) \$ V
_. w4 T' }1 _: @+ l1 zOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
% B& A3 K! ], J$ u- Elbert Hubbard
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; \6 ]# v! N6 O$ g1 O0 k+ U+ P& J" BAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
# P/ E& o2 j/ C8 Y( f- 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.$ q4 {+ T5 K2 O
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word0 S9 y, @& P! m- R- O, t9 D
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Build early and build often.
) }3 B- b1 {: J3 G* e0 ?& I- Proprietary developer adage
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+ ~3 f* m) Z3 t$ Z/ ?& W+ k' oRelease early and release often./ l+ }) P" d1 ^# a
- Open source developer adage
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5 }: B* N y2 Y5 V. cWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.: J, @' q' {4 h0 `2 I" U. V$ a
- Carl Sagan8 L: d y# _& R% P" \' S5 P3 l: q. P
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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.3 r; Q# t3 @4 D% e; }
- 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.4 Q1 b1 _5 ~, K5 ^: s
- Margaret Thatcher
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
% F$ z" j/ F8 @ h! O5 K- 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. y( ], o: S9 h; x6 J2 Z
- Porterfield
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. U; J" R6 D9 IEverything that can be invented has been invented.
' n, v: X. T/ j1 M- f7 f- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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7 ^" j% J4 o4 k8 X/ n: ]GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
* L, u, `. X% j/ _) G5 r- 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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0 Z3 C: n* V) o" l# |Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.6 A4 R' ?8 L7 R4 y, U
- Gregory Benford
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
( H4 K. T8 S) l- r$ U& t, H- 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.
6 }# Y; E' P0 g/ W$ K! K7 L- Thomas Edison: A: Z4 Y: Z2 Q) R
! g5 w b7 c+ v* B: V/ pGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.7 C& ^% E1 I# D6 q7 t2 G! K+ F3 b9 @
- 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+ D4 E* b9 E4 x3 r7 B5 S
P: h" Y4 {$ U5 ~2 WThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
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5 H8 {' W# W+ {$ K6 t) W. aComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.+ j% k- G! j$ o/ J0 C
- Popular Mechanics, 1949; L) M. o- q8 n7 F
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.+ a8 u4 H% {+ ^
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy& V0 y* |; Z2 \9 S* p& N. I
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Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.9 a3 \5 b" L( q
- Andrew Heller, IBM$ Z- ]# t7 ~7 p" x; O9 u( c; K
" S& ?- ~% f$ y4 h& XAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
/ U1 @' {8 a5 Y. i* q0 _( `, \- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos% r2 b, c7 O* H, e4 W
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How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?$ v- [% I0 D6 ]8 l; S
- Al Gore on Y2K
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
( G8 e, q. b# Y4 h- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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6 Q( r, h% ` t/ e% O/ k/ Z: qThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
3 {. l! X: V% N& Q# l, [2 `; e. X- Linus Torvalds
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+ s2 h' F5 @' r. U, ITo 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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5 g6 {; u6 O; [' U8 A3 ZWindows is just DOS in drag.& |) J9 W6 k1 Y! f; m
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8 }$ ^7 t* ?% s7 ~7 B4 JThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.: E# h( @( {( f7 G1 v0 N V: X- V
- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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