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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
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2 r( U3 z, \! N, LWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?4 x( w c( A/ {' _* {2 A
- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
6 N* w$ c: W) r- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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5 B4 ]+ A) _/ \. e; C: z! z' CThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.5 K7 r# @' e/ L$ \8 q
- 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.
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3 Y3 @2 |5 \2 z2 S, pTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand./ ?, n8 t m* P# k
- Anonymous
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) y: t/ y: G8 p# VFor 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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" M( h0 I" Y! m" q# X. \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.
. j8 s* `/ @! c+ e7 a" k- Andy Rooney' W* M3 t: t; a. w6 v0 f3 q
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.2 I+ n# x) Z0 N
- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.) y0 | F0 f3 p8 e9 W, k
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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, |( B( u, L' N0 \If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
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$ W; f1 g' H+ w0 gIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.( F+ Q8 A- C( `( x: E- d5 d
- Anonymous
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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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: w+ S; A! o9 z6 z; KThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.. Y* m# N8 O& c: D
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric y5 B' D5 z0 v2 v
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At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.3 A! D f$ @# u3 A7 M+ r: B
- Anonymous
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5 X. @ }9 l+ a+ ZThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
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! R; {, V& R" Y9 g- QOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
2 n) Q9 Q' u$ {& x% A1 k) y- Elbert Hubbard
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1 c( Y2 b4 B+ G# w6 e- A4 PAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
2 p' w- A; p! A, P1 L4 ]6 G& g3 U! Y3 j- David Thornburg# H" V% c1 y" k% \+ t. B7 o
* @8 l% K+ F: V' y8 ^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.; v6 m7 m# U$ h/ u
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( b# g: V/ C. O( O% \Save early, save often./ Q% m8 x5 c- U1 o- F/ x$ v
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word, v' \# |1 X5 s6 C/ e$ \
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Build early and build often.( m) I- {4 F8 @3 ?
- Proprietary developer adage: Z4 ]' K. V" J3 |) ?
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Release early and release often.
4 ^; x" P) x' {; f# H- 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.
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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.
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, `3 m$ K( |+ q: n; y; T% v. vThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them. H( g/ D- H; `& Q# h6 z; V
- Margaret Thatcher9 l# q- i9 Q x
& G* E% Z! v2 ~# \& R: DThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
) U$ \/ r2 a( K$ ^% M+ h- Jerry Olson3 W5 V" _+ U- f H
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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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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
( E/ o& t6 j* c4 M( X1 w: G- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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+ }: [3 ]9 Q; W1 e, tGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
, M8 y3 E$ i4 i1 {! k; J- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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& t3 }% Q3 A* t$ ]! { d4 g% sAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.- ?6 k2 O( p# w$ |$ q7 {% C6 [
- Arthur C. Clarke
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7 I% m# Q) u' {$ Q' @2 N* E+ MAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.# Z) t3 X1 O4 f* s% y3 C5 \5 h
- Gregory Benford$ u& n' J1 d: K+ O* K
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry./ H c; a. z. U; h. ~3 j( z
- Anonymous
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. V, r l. p& \2 b3 QA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
0 [2 |7 @* E( m3 Q2 u+ }- Alan J. Perlis+ C; N% U# `$ @" r7 {' H5 X# f
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.+ h; R4 H1 X2 L- V& t' \0 ~! z
- 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.& o& b# G6 P* 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.6 U2 m4 C0 A9 }
- 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.
' a- ?6 I3 J# U, i% R7 o6 H- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
( D) X# A3 _: Z) q3 w& d- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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6 v' N8 F1 g+ ], h- BTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes." m; H) W x$ [% T8 k6 q9 c
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.: s4 p8 y9 k: e) a! J
- 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?
0 R$ ?0 ~. l I- Al Gore on Y2K
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.& x" x* \2 z- h' @
- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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1 b' w8 P8 M) q2 vThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
$ T$ y1 m+ f4 U% S( g4 w- Linus Torvalds
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! t( D G7 D, s* S! 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.
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Windows is just DOS in drag.: n4 \: @$ V( M
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.( D/ {) N8 _; D a; @. U/ P0 e
- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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