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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.; O( X% c; b2 _0 U
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum5 }# ^2 V& l! g T# T# ]
8 s* V) J d6 [- W9 L) l1 U$ gWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?5 g" y9 w4 V: V9 f8 ^5 _) _
- T.S. Elliot
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3 [9 d( A; `* K7 u/ Z640K ought to be enough for anybody.
8 _4 D/ j, { p- _! Z( J! c) N- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.( @& Z$ _4 t& J- V( T) |' o
- B. F. Skinner: d3 }1 p. X2 ?1 ?# V2 w
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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.
) H9 z1 g+ c o3 m# e- George Pompidou
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3 _2 X2 c/ L; r! F3 ?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.3 Y, i/ l. }$ m. _3 k
- Anonymous
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0 n. x, y/ t& W7 [8 K6 {! ~2 J5 ^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.( C/ H3 @* z3 t( C/ E* U
- Anonymous) l5 t! H8 \" h% M B; O
" `1 F8 V, a9 ], hComputers 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.7 m3 E5 N0 i" D# D
- Andy Rooney
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* O( q* N( ?6 Y2 H! j. s/ H+ kIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.* I* p$ `$ f4 e. N) L; U3 \& G
- Richard Power
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# F6 h5 \7 P, t! wI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
$ d9 ~. @ S4 B- O- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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" O9 Z8 S- T; g6 oIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
) a; S4 ~' R5 p# _7 o- Scott Adams
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$ [" q7 h) S2 H! A' }In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.7 R3 U' i, P! ^; h
- Anonymous
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9 p6 [# I5 |( d- [. y9 s7 |0 NIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in. F2 c+ L% z. V
- Bradley's Bromide# A8 Q" e" p+ e9 w
9 p0 ^: k$ w% ~The Internet is the Viagra of big business.: w: d6 G2 Z% I: }% [
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric, j+ d8 _. G$ Q- p* F5 E$ u: E
2 Z1 w/ x) z! q* A+ GAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.# U1 y" j' h- i9 i% B; Z
- 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.- X! A0 ~( q2 f5 j4 v' w) @
- Jeremy S. Anderson8 e8 l& }- ^1 d; Z" u8 S. N' |
& v' V9 P1 _) F; C9 C$ UOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.! }9 y' }( h4 X: \( T. k( Y
- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
2 o% ~* k" ?0 R# t- David Thornburg
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Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
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Save early, save often.2 J1 z' F% g9 d/ {
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often.- i' J5 U z+ Z* D7 r& ]! @
- Proprietary developer adage* N$ g* B' p9 P6 @) ~
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Release early and release often.5 e5 V9 p5 \& Y
- Open source developer adage& P9 R+ l5 N. j3 D! r
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
$ L/ {2 R$ ]* m. M6 B. X- Carl Sagan
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' V& G6 @7 _, c6 U4 j* S, hIf you tried to read every document on the web, then for each day's effort you would be a year further behind in your goal.+ n. m1 r8 k; Q. R. ]8 s2 \- Z
- Anonymous! V. w" w/ E* u( z" J
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There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.$ D+ A; ?# |/ y* R1 H x
- Margaret Thatcher& H& c( T. U9 |: K- o. F
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
" y9 w9 @) J2 G6 V1 e2 a( S& i- Jerry Olson/ p5 R& P) [; M2 D& x. k6 s
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The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.' t6 \) ^0 Y; g% v
- Porterfield
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
0 H. i4 D, u+ x6 B% x! \4 B- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT/ j; H; E8 h% G) ?9 X
- Fairchild Research and Development, 19695 s7 e1 H( ]' h- o" ]
4 O$ c- z# c: H/ X: p. VAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.% p+ T0 J0 N- m9 O
- Arthur C. Clarke. V* _! t, \* R3 A8 B0 W7 {; ^/ [
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.8 g% X2 @5 c2 `9 D6 ~! v1 o" ?
- Gregory Benford
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.5 U* u9 N1 _6 D/ |
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.' J. Y h2 f- z4 Y: O5 e
- Alan J. Perlis+ ]$ E2 F6 X0 o! C
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
% S/ I* u4 }7 D3 s6 Y5 ?( }- Thomas Edison
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. z" y0 e, q4 v3 ?4 l5 bGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.! q* f- f5 R+ g7 w$ q
- 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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4 }: `- p S# aThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.1 z2 S. @6 Y8 _9 E' O& r. e- Q; n
- Senator Bob Dole5 e: \3 p: f6 E7 O- D/ a
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons., F: O7 D( T) w' ?
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.+ `5 l: ~1 E3 X& Q8 L: U
- 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.1 N1 \! c4 O, M' `; T2 B! [" ^
- Andrew Heller, IBM0 r0 r+ i8 e7 i W, `+ a y
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
% Y+ b c9 `2 v* P8 m3 Y- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos- ?" x7 L" v1 j
. A' _# Q# V. W; O& m' MHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?) l* y, N# O* ~1 Z* ~; C
- Al Gore on Y2K) A o: }, `/ m6 _( {5 A" C
" e/ u" K2 A5 D; @/ f2 UThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
4 f' l5 B4 c* P; B+ t! f- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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2 e3 P) }9 E/ d5 p0 `* G- a' WThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
$ [; Q; H5 |0 i0 ?/ T- Linus Torvalds0 j) F& e! N u3 X
$ J7 A2 q7 x7 u) C, ?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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5 i5 p+ |1 o3 Z7 V( Z1 v3 u: d5 OWindows is just DOS in drag.
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?% r) b3 p( e- [9 iThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
5 X% c' \! e6 N! `2 E' Z$ l* q9 |- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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