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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?
2 m& H0 I, q' Q+ b& U- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody." p4 J" m* ^/ |4 Z8 S% X2 G1 D
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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% \5 u+ J" M; J. d' S6 m$ hThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.( e8 M; K" w7 Q4 ~
- B. F. Skinner9 @' i: {6 c E( \+ m7 @- E
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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./ A% j: C# g, P$ B. S; u% v
- George Pompidou
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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.
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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.0 o+ d7 a0 H" |+ \
- Andy Rooney# y$ g* L% y( S0 D7 @9 M! Y
* V8 g# I, C' q: ^/ h: A iIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.6 F. b- ]$ I6 N- l5 I& [
- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.5 B' h C5 p' o/ x& I" ~) R# _) ]
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 19433 K- b( K) b# E
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
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7 k" j$ V1 t1 o z- Z! \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.! J. s* p4 h0 k/ m, C
- Bradley's Bromide
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.. X* M( w( V+ `+ `
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.% P3 l1 Q- F/ |; K* S$ i: V
- 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.# N; h4 `$ G1 w* Y4 P E" G4 \9 s
- Jeremy S. Anderson
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& M/ ?6 x/ @3 M9 p) E& |, ~) j' wOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.4 C; U, s$ J+ M7 r" F+ Q* Q; o8 v
- Elbert Hubbard
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( B. @: I F+ S: K6 c6 X' m FAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.+ O2 b# t4 T# }, g2 y. T
- David Thornburg
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) q5 b# D* T/ Z& a& H1 f) pThose 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.. n! c- R3 k, a; }
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often.
, M& Q7 T2 m% \& l5 o- Proprietary developer adage) l" I* U1 [: A' @' q1 L4 O& W
$ d$ ^2 ~8 _$ s: ?Release early and release often.
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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.% ]& S$ l* T2 A
- Carl Sagan1 C3 Y, X) e- f# C! y
?/ z# B9 S8 r1 _7 KIf 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.( ^# c, v* C! _2 u5 e+ G# `" Q/ B+ H ?
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6 S, H" H4 d; s( u$ ]. x1 l) e$ ^- DThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.) B; a9 O3 E" L
- Margaret Thatcher
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" P& N1 P; N2 G7 yThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
/ K$ Q4 N9 I# @ ]- Jerry Olson4 s, H9 g8 y# i# S4 b0 z
. Y6 a: y8 c3 k" K" jThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.; A: F4 p" x; I1 ?) d* k
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# _( O1 Q6 r& {9 vEverything that can be invented has been invented.
3 V" p; V0 G/ [$ n; b- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
4 S( b: y! z; {- {6 `0 A- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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" ?( S9 y5 Y1 C% N9 \" zAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.% `1 i4 k. _' w B
- Arthur C. Clarke
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`# D8 H" f7 f( h$ x, n- p' QAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.5 n: i1 _) d2 b. x
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9 l9 Z! G; ?! ?. DNever 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.
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) f1 d; g" v5 |' c: Q9 I- UI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.5 B# y) \6 z: v: a+ a. q
- 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.
T! p* J' @. t# j' k- 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 developed0 C2 O [# M ^3 q* x: y
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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.' d* N. f2 H; u9 D1 z; l0 K$ Q9 E% C- N
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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. N8 F w& m9 Z% a* X3 P0 c From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
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0 ^( E" L) [ |! [. `9 HTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
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6 w' s& m7 F8 `. m- r) r3 sAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive. e1 f% Z# {$ \0 t* D6 ]
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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0 u) j9 \' [1 H/ QHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?+ [1 t3 E% b& t6 ~
- Al Gore on Y2K
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3 g1 B7 I- D4 SThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.) z8 V) Y% C! S) m' ~
- 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.
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' B$ _) j2 }4 G) h; ^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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- Anonymous
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
" U: s" N' n# ?0 F: I' G+ ?- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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