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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.3 J& m& r+ L2 t* @
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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- R9 \& g3 k/ X0 X1 y/ q0 w. ?Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
; F! |9 T# ~. W1 v" J, x3 h, i0 W( ~5 B- T.S. Elliot
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0 n9 @- I9 R) u& m* L9 e1 a640K ought to be enough for anybody.
7 S# ~7 H" Q# a5 x' M- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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6 `6 z( k5 ^4 A4 j L5 H: FThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.; F# z$ o# P/ j& i1 h* W+ q+ O
- 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.
* a* N% B' C+ _/ ~9 b+ Y, g: [, t- 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./ O9 Y* f3 i9 |: ]" J0 E3 O
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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.1 }8 R5 t# M2 ]8 ]& {' i. O
- Andy Rooney/ t6 _) \0 O: ?1 ?' [
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
g: g5 @6 w7 F5 v0 E7 [: Q- y1 w- Richard Power1 [) r C* a0 e n# |, f
1 L1 f9 c# [) B! J. \I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
) F5 J1 R) y+ ]0 n4 `- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943. y: x* w0 [5 G* T; J% d0 m% q7 o
# y6 |7 B/ j3 W3 K; K2 q7 \If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
: V' D" }: ?, Y% k' i) } |- Scott Adams. W9 y; m: ^* F( _$ X
2 O5 l. k) ?- o% B& ~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.
* Y: v* U9 ~1 a c- Bradley's Bromide
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
6 m% r. d9 V4 C q: r" s- a- 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.
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- M$ O" Z- v: z1 p$ mThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
- K0 {8 i+ o$ Q3 Q& V! H- Jeremy S. Anderson
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.3 m! t# A5 W0 g9 E
- Elbert Hubbard
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! _! c/ L2 Z+ d1 E4 pAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
; u- H: ]8 R, w; v9 \0 x- David Thornburg2 Z: e" G }, {, i6 [$ \+ n
! _4 h6 G' t: s5 U9 |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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) P# C- b7 V6 u) f+ m% `Save early, save often.
$ J- j/ ]* ~ P4 H! x: n- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often.# Z% [' f; c; w7 b7 i
- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often., l) q* `8 m5 }8 Z* S+ j8 ^
- Open source developer adage
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* ]# n/ Q: `2 o; N8 [We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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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 A" ~7 g' C) n/ @( ^ _' c
- 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.
. d6 z1 d5 C2 ?6 t) h( ?% f- Margaret Thatcher
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8 u1 N! ?3 n$ O# t& U# w, i1 q9 LThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
1 J4 K: Q, m& U- S- Jerry Olson- R6 A5 C) e# o0 [2 D7 s: B ~
6 x# K. w8 g8 i$ d- ]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.: F8 k) ~; \( [3 j8 K4 e
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899) `% ]: Z1 G. p( u, t( Q
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
& }8 @% ^* Q8 J% v& U) t( F$ x- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969: j$ G; X; ~4 [, L u9 X
* E1 @9 V0 {* B7 p3 e* U& gAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.! t' ?- `0 v: ~7 |+ y& [. B+ c
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. Z: s! x+ B7 b. n% yAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
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! f$ O/ ?# w0 {! mNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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6 S0 |2 P9 D6 U; U% q1 ?A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.: J" `, D7 g% b) Q V- J/ |" T8 q3 V
- Alan J. Perlis% q s: b. ~6 X. W, \1 k# U. Z
" M; l5 X8 u5 Q7 d4 U o- eI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
6 ~4 \+ r; T+ R ]0 Z6 _- Thomas Edison. `5 E2 i* n7 G0 x' [8 \
0 V ~" l. c0 s7 z% bGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.( y+ ~( \: y4 |7 Q- e& z( _
- 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' s" w0 n" G- z6 K! q
: b# o- f9 g, A; p. zThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
% Y8 P9 @1 {% ` w1 N- 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.
( L, ]- Z4 T1 s4 x% y& H& }5 Z- Popular Mechanics, 19496 C* O, `2 _4 v1 N; ?. g
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.. N( { _( R7 U
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy. |8 G% s1 R3 r4 U5 ?
K9 _7 p8 }# HTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
6 M R! ]8 D8 v2 b5 n% c# M- `( |- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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6 K# M5 Z* c& v: {6 r1 V1 PHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
3 ~# s+ P0 e8 o3 \! k- Al Gore on Y2K
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- Sydney Brenner in 1927$ e1 t- \1 p3 K9 [ r
/ x9 s. ^- f& [# Z9 c! LThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
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: D- e4 E- ^1 ZTo 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. L( O3 F8 r5 E& O# \# ] ~( l
- Linus Torvalds: E( c8 ]8 V' W2 [2 q+ C1 ]
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Windows is just DOS in drag.
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
' i5 f% n8 S n3 K+ O5 o& {- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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