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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.4 j% q! V, {% g0 j9 q
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum. ?" ^( Z4 ]$ t+ B
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
' V7 ^ w, n$ @- T.S. Elliot: I0 n7 s* f( L4 H
0 r6 x6 z" H8 z+ ?6 [+ N640K ought to be enough for anybody., h9 c/ p# U7 C- @8 _
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 19818 m4 h! F. V8 }' F+ T9 E
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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# h" A* O# h) e% @/ N! O3 Q: nThere 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.! Z& M8 g2 r$ I% b3 j" C
- George Pompidou
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6 c0 X7 C9 n* `" [$ b! q4 ATechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.* p& |" {: P9 i, d8 e6 J
- Anonymous
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/ }2 L( V+ H( w# D9 }% t8 ?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.. r. k5 z# c6 X$ T# ~
- Anonymous8 v3 _+ w: [5 h7 ]5 Z
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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.6 [1 ?3 J6 d5 b5 o' |) B F
- Andy Rooney' p- }: j' e4 h5 {/ }
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.: R5 P2 i" {! _% ^+ p' Y, H3 ~7 \- k
- Richard Power
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9 t, V" T" g& r/ J, MI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.8 P$ i$ ]/ P9 @3 y: o. C2 @. @
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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, ]8 U8 A; a2 y6 G+ `If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.) i6 }+ D1 \$ M3 S- T" x3 J
- 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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* K0 P9 b: p/ @7 x9 b3 _If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in. w& {1 h0 T0 Y; l8 ~
- Bradley's Bromide
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& r! J/ B/ V( G6 C; H KThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.8 h% x6 s3 z: [. u5 W7 n/ b! S
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric9 {" j# X. X7 E( T6 v
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At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
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T9 P( _# x3 H4 qThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.1 {6 S6 R$ {0 w$ v7 v/ a6 X' v5 I
- 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.' ~/ [. j; Z9 \9 j6 N, G- O
- Elbert Hubbard: {+ c9 `' g7 j
" E7 A/ e4 i9 y' {Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.; M. H0 `; {; l% f) y6 ~, F! j$ b3 m
- David Thornburg; e* A0 M* j7 J& [
' I* ~% o! K( D4 s8 A* H+ lThose 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. V! m" V# X2 F+ C1 N
- Anonymous
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6 b* ^4 t; i3 I5 d7 G S- e$ ESave early, save often.
2 r: j* a! ?5 ]4 Y- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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, t+ ~1 [9 G1 N N4 IBuild early and build often.$ ^* j4 l# T6 K; O2 {3 x- ?
- Proprietary developer adage
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; L w& t& {1 i4 j/ X4 nRelease early and release often.
# Z9 F+ E4 h* Y- Open source developer adage
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/ v* S* T, J! A% r6 hWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology." O" X8 ~2 c; r q/ K
- Carl Sagan- T; c! b. a: G9 x- `0 [5 N
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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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There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them./ B/ W$ a' @6 E/ a& W0 n2 {! {
- Margaret Thatcher
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon." [$ h4 Z2 b+ A
- Jerry Olson5 k, U, H. u! d$ c( C9 Y% j, Q
5 D, n; o! D/ n3 Z& r$ O8 rThe 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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. \ B& V9 p/ `& J4 Y+ Z. TEverything that can be invented has been invented.) o( a2 l, p# l9 Y7 \
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899% d: s( `. ]8 \4 @
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT. {8 t+ X( w- b- i( m3 s' y2 p
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969) l+ ?$ I2 Z6 m5 Z3 f) {
2 P( M. O( H l; z! eAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
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4 g+ l9 e7 P% i# _: B+ qAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.1 T2 N( n# Y- l. I
- Gregory Benford
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6 \/ ~) x" a4 iNever 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.* } U' ]) }) k5 b
- Alan J. Perlis: {6 L3 h% \# i" ^
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.0 C8 i9 J( k5 Q# Q2 O
- Thomas Edison2 F9 ?) w" k f9 h$ n
8 O" S" R7 l4 X) jGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.3 O4 |: Z& b) E9 y 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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0 @' ^& K0 L* D+ s _The Internet is a great way to get on the net.; ~& E, E9 @- n$ ]+ b
- 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. q1 ^% ?3 i! H3 \5 d1 }) i: s+ v/ E
- Popular Mechanics, 1949: r) g1 Y- g, h4 L; S! B
( ?- U: X6 n N: [5 J0 q+ D From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
4 e4 x4 g# b( W) [. C- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy: I p- `* y& ^" _& L2 G
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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.. b6 n3 B5 N) R- o1 L/ A2 D
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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) H& j& m4 r# B3 _9 k4 lHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
3 [# |6 }3 K7 f# |! X- Al Gore on Y2K
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.8 U6 h2 P6 {6 P$ p3 f9 F) H
- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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! v0 ]2 G$ h4 {: [* L/ JThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
' H( ] B8 l" x/ h1 B$ r- Linus Torvalds
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R5 K, y7 y: bTo 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.2 ]. @- t* a2 z0 G; d1 L8 }
- Linus Torvalds
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2 x" i! b+ _% @Windows is just DOS in drag.
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
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