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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
( m0 u9 V) }% @" U2 C. P* O# m. J' g- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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9 F9 R2 |% P. @0 A t6 a8 ^& TWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
/ C; h# V6 A/ E/ ?. Y2 e- T.S. Elliot
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* Z0 @+ f' B% ~640K ought to be enough for anybody.) d5 e/ Z) ]& q7 d( @ U
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981& Y" i- C& t! L/ K2 F* n
$ z: ~6 q% ?( L8 G. a3 bThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.$ L! y: y! [; e2 C0 E5 d: m
- 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.
& J' ]# t. l8 G8 @9 _- 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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, ?9 x, H) z6 HFor 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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: Q7 I8 P, c0 l, J* M$ Y _- c. LComputers 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.. b+ z& L. S' M; P2 f. p( t
- Andy Rooney
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6 `- F# p: Z% \2 |) V' uIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
6 G6 J) {+ R o* e# Z: l" J5 H- Richard Power# f; q7 H5 j( c `: M3 T4 Z
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.8 `+ h8 }( o# n a8 n- e
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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) j) ~5 B% d S6 T; l9 RIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.+ f N) L7 Q: a/ z z
- Scott Adams
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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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* G7 i3 j) o% r% [& bIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.* R2 c+ f j! D8 T! u" d
- Bradley's Bromide
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0 U: m# ~( ~! M! eThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.3 M/ U6 z, Y+ r4 t# y
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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/ h9 S& t& W9 Q% |At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.. P% k7 p4 P& R& O; C
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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.
9 o% ?5 K4 X9 l5 \0 O0 H T- 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.
* T Q/ u9 N( V5 M- Elbert Hubbard
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: K" g' L2 W8 E K( P7 `" V$ sAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.0 M! @6 z1 }, y, q
- David Thornburg
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" B# O: O* j9 j, m6 cThose 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.% t& a1 J1 B/ H+ ]+ s0 \
- Anonymous
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x) _7 m; R8 ~# aSave early, save often.' c/ t# f9 i, @! U3 V/ `5 R) V; Y
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word( \& w; s6 a% d% A
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Build early and build often.
, F, X1 S- P/ b1 d, r$ u) {. o- Proprietary developer adage
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/ D* U; C$ P8 N1 o) D8 QRelease early and release often.: h- r1 n0 r% ^/ _" n3 n9 l
- Open source developer adage8 a7 F+ ?: i5 k# r; d; G. }
5 B' V; _1 h% S" N& n2 PWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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% Q8 [. F! ?2 P( @/ d! R# H6 ]4 pIf 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.- }; E8 ?5 F+ M. X8 |' L
- Anonymous
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" N( K# _2 h) ]) B$ uThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.6 U3 y1 t6 q' [, x# E( W- L
- Margaret Thatcher
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7 g, D; l2 }. h' kThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.+ r* s n) y# t% T, N
- Jerry Olson9 H8 \1 F6 {' [( L
( G4 F) V- G: P' O' KThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.
8 _# {- L: ?# ]" x. s- Porterfield
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
* z/ k, x( K- a( |; u0 k/ b2 n; W- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
0 B9 ^. v0 O [4 M- Fairchild Research and Development, 19698 w* C* N! |: [! y/ W
* D$ M) D9 _& N' S3 U9 C- UAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.: `# T+ _ d* m/ _- b
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' l& h9 J8 z, m0 KAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
; D3 O- V) E' U+ e- Gregory Benford
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.4 T: s5 ^/ o3 R. Y/ z, ?
- Anonymous
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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3 m+ {! F8 W: hI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
: q) b5 S) A( c* N5 |" K- Thomas Edison, N7 {! r2 g; O5 Y" E7 l
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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 _, I6 i- i9 `: D- 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
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.* P% ]3 c, f# P# L
- Senator Bob Dole3 q- n% n, O0 n1 ^* M
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
" E/ Q& U$ b P4 {- D- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
" K8 W+ q* z+ O* W2 f7 t- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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) h6 }" |( v$ A0 P% t" |. |Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.4 I$ f/ U. R' p$ {
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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6 e4 ~% d- S* H# y+ D3 X6 r4 j/ {! gAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
# c5 B1 G) z8 O- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos2 B" K4 A% R6 \: A) Y
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How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft? E0 v1 U# Q V$ R
- Al Gore on Y2K% ?# a5 ?, l+ E6 Z8 ]1 b
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.8 \ \' F% Q6 ~) _6 P
- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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. l2 A, x" }$ i/ {2 J8 NThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
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4 a$ v; G" R& E% x/ ^0 kTo 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.; H: @5 T8 n$ L8 j4 w
- Linus Torvalds' N% h. b4 k. a% K7 V- l
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Windows is just DOS in drag.! c. a9 A1 ~( N+ j `: i9 c
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2 y" V8 Y- C2 r, C1 `' H/ {9 {( }1 qThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
' G7 ]0 U v6 d0 G6 R d- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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