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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?
+ H0 {6 X, M& @6 B- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody./ K$ Z' H) F# m# u. O9 D
- 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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7 p! n6 g; X( ?7 L. DThere 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 K; P Z+ z7 W( l+ J" r- George Pompidou4 A6 f9 Q! v+ R; D
6 E; w8 u& I$ {6 S( iTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.# P' H [! |# K
- Anonymous
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* J' L- x0 ?( xFor 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.0 F) z3 p' B) ]+ x
- 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.7 O4 g2 p5 `. T. n# o( ]7 v8 @
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.( V4 y: k+ p# W G# P' B
- Richard Power6 n' \7 N. w( Q+ p* C: _% {
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
0 F4 c4 {: H8 x e7 a- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 19434 k, d# r4 A: w" i
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.; f, A$ V0 _! I. t) M" P
- Scott Adams
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% J( H' \. C# YIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.6 {7 w8 A9 K, O' E9 V
- Anonymous
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& U `, Y6 I1 H$ H U: J0 `0 d3 cIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
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* L* X7 j- _- b! s7 L' z# d* j7 YThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.$ M3 @5 Z6 _/ ]1 ?( g( [; |
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric, Y' m3 d, y' u! _" O: e
: U% c }; c0 Y* S0 o1 iAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.# E3 G' c9 q9 M! c' `
- Anonymous
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There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
- d+ z5 ^8 g$ o% F8 p* p- Jeremy S. Anderson
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4 ]# g2 o3 r& o& L5 l1 e8 e3 ~; a o7 qOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.# G) b$ j2 e% ~1 }) N
- Elbert Hubbard
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2 U5 d& q8 r& L1 s9 O0 GAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.% J7 f8 ?4 y: Z4 D% l ]
- David Thornburg1 u% h/ [" e" W
+ D {* [! M6 [2 mThose 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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& F" ~3 A: h. a& iSave early, save often.' I! L: E# k5 P% F* }- D' k0 j
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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e" H" V3 L4 Y! Q4 w' J0 ?Build early and build often.
6 ^0 C0 v3 P6 Z! b7 \- Proprietary developer adage4 r' x+ S/ \( ~4 ]) P G
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- 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.1 ~- N7 K! e+ G
- Carl Sagan
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! L k" l& z+ Z- T* VIf 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.& m1 d- q$ L2 G) B. L/ B8 v8 B" ~' C
- Anonymous. B% I) Y; _7 Q6 Z. u% C
: Y; l2 \( i4 f, mThere 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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1 V% q2 q. M3 m3 v: H" V2 dThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
# U: B( d1 }) q& z) ^3 h- 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.
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+ D: t: b. t0 J( t0 f/ mEverything that can be invented has been invented.
, o: z' f) Y% P4 t- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899, x0 L9 k+ m1 s2 }8 |' u
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT: r3 N! [# Z! F
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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9 j/ ^5 C+ p0 KAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
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- B" s+ F9 j; S5 c# q9 M7 t' `Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
* i. X: O1 c/ S6 p( {0 L; P9 l7 H* T- Gregory Benford9 p! w/ E# G* f( g6 y) c1 M. \
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.+ d \$ j# l W, s
- Alan J. Perlis t# Z1 _+ v" g. j; H
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.6 } m$ u+ p. r3 C
- 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.& @2 }# x C4 @' O% V, `1 q
- 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 developed6 r0 d# m( S9 P3 v
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.7 W+ p! v3 y' G1 L1 \* Y3 b) ]
- Senator Bob Dole
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.5 m& {2 N& H% o0 S8 n
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.2 P! |8 k( r$ D0 { t
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy' E3 D% l( B$ O2 ^0 h1 O
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Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
) z+ V9 b& b% Y$ C6 x- Andrew Heller, IBM
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0 r; I5 c$ ]/ L0 h( LAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.2 o& j7 I, y6 ?3 J
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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4 A6 C1 @6 b) R' x0 e. D. bHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?+ v8 t! X' B* v r1 ]& t
- Al Gore on Y2K
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$ t5 N9 i5 }: p8 J, M9 cThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.- T8 b+ [0 U4 Y8 [: ]$ k
- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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3 G, f& E/ w$ c8 G! \The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.4 s$ z4 k! |7 g* }0 d; O
- 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- \3 n! X' M; \4 eWindows is just DOS in drag.# h7 w* y" x+ p( p+ {
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, V& B6 S% q2 N) Q) {There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.5 M- \% Z7 F. ~ m
- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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