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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
" h4 t9 J: `% d/ c4 o: c) I4 l- Andrew S. Tannenbaum( x q8 I" @5 D0 I) N# _
5 O5 o+ ^. G" i6 H+ I5 a/ F0 ?3 o3 ?Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?8 O& P" \# w; V3 P* B+ i$ F
- T.S. Elliot2 M0 i2 {) ~8 F: o/ N0 B' L
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.4 P/ |+ {) n+ p; T& R, A0 f/ `
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981% U% v9 `8 v* P+ `4 x
: L8 j9 W. w: Z) W% P% I7 GThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.* x. w5 [- _$ Q/ K$ G" G W
- 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.% Y) y* x4 l- g8 g+ r& L' A/ t
- George Pompidou: C5 ~ N$ m7 S' m0 X
~' b, o" k$ D( CTechnology 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.6 o5 K% n3 P; F4 R: R. r8 T
- 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." O, K8 [8 L0 k' }: V; i
- Andy Rooney( f8 {% c% r1 f4 r$ q4 Z
$ o6 k4 r m. _" Q( D8 I! }In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
% T9 ?5 U( J1 c3 s& o I- Richard Power, P7 z/ K" v5 H2 B4 w
6 }2 n8 L2 U, l {I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.- u! U( G$ x1 u4 z P$ y
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
2 D/ ]& C8 ~" a0 w- C- Scott Adams; X) [$ M5 y a' q- v
1 {% U6 |* h# M- Y; t2 {3 t; dIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.) @4 Z3 F& |1 m8 Z7 W# b
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
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; l% | ~" i. eThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.- @) s* r! R5 ]$ e8 d. ]2 ^
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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$ s9 j2 N$ N# l- P7 b+ ^At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
- N3 t: ^4 w" {/ I, i- Anonymous
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9 }. I) ]' B: u0 \: j( ^There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
; \3 T# K/ D5 Q" v; \! y( s; ^- Jeremy S. Anderson' X* F! G4 m0 S1 ?+ `3 ~% z0 @
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.4 a" V% @) }3 p# b# u0 q1 D
- Elbert Hubbard3 ]4 j5 Z& y! r+ S C- n
& w) q/ s1 Q: M' X4 \Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
\. Y6 S4 Q. x! _. U- David Thornburg
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9 H$ ~1 F* ]) x/ M( I1 _. l% VThose 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.
, S' J1 t# r# S& G8 H: k) t- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word. N9 B0 u' v" t
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Build early and build often.1 u# @8 H0 z U
- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often. P ?& R- V# `$ X
- Open source developer adage" s2 e9 S7 C0 w, t D% C
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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.0 ^4 P( Y! F* X* Y! A
- Carl Sagan
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! [/ C# h# `6 _4 i2 aIf 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.
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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.
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
$ {( ]# c+ E: e, q6 ^! c: S- Jerry Olson
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0 ]9 U1 N0 y% {. tThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.
- M- ]0 R9 q2 C6 d- Porterfield
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- q. Z. L h& f/ IEverything that can be invented has been invented.
( o* z9 f" b9 u" Q- ~) p% B- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
, B$ T, B) H/ [- ]4 y- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
E. J* o. l; \6 U& g4 L$ h; A- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.$ q5 p2 N/ m, |/ u$ U! x
- Gregory Benford2 w; S- }5 `& H+ C4 N
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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.3 b& U+ r+ T$ h6 E; [/ ?; q$ |+ H
- Alan J. Perlis
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.+ ~5 M5 R1 ^2 z: K, R5 o% }
- Thomas Edison7 Q1 H8 n/ y2 L* t o; ^
/ U3 ?1 P5 O+ Y& j- A4 xGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
6 |$ v' j2 l# k+ z Z" r. O! [1 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.5 \. c1 m. ?4 G) ?, G. x
- Senator Bob Dole/ }! j M) l4 \' w- O* e8 A
% ]- J' ?4 e; O2 l4 ~- }8 ~Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.) C' q, S+ |- k, y
- Popular Mechanics, 1949 a7 Z8 `" g5 Z, O2 |/ Q- h' @& V$ M
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.3 p+ ~5 `# d6 P4 Q) F' u5 e/ G
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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Technology 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.
" Z& w( g7 g/ ]" G" [- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?: s# U; R7 r7 w' y! J" _4 C
- Al Gore on Y2K
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# p" }# Z' d; p' [9 O& YThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.. w( Q4 P/ r p
- Sydney Brenner in 1927* R/ q4 Q* D- V5 ~
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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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* P2 |( p, R/ G* ~# \, Y! vTo 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% P( u' W6 O `2 `. A; M- Linus Torvalds
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Windows is just DOS in drag.5 d" A! h# L% j# L* o( k8 F
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3 z0 Q- ~ e2 h& d& bThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
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