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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.$ r8 {! e' e0 U) i
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum1 R# t* S- Y: U6 ~
8 q7 R$ R2 b, f% X- eWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?0 R9 h5 N8 o1 e# o& d- i' n7 q
- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
7 y2 I+ I; z1 N- f% \- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 19818 s, b) F" j& D' H4 Q
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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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.2 N# Q9 S2 o! o: D3 }- G# Y# \: Z; m
- 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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" x8 c" b9 E# V: q6 R5 P. WFor 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.
7 U9 H5 S4 s8 @0 p3 \( c- Anonymous. N$ ?& L) H* P T' i
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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.& D0 }1 v# B' i( h6 l
- Andy Rooney! ~7 W }/ }1 N$ c1 j
& v9 o# w8 Y" y+ Y( a( R* S3 t+ uIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
+ L) X; Y9 V: n+ u$ c4 l+ h- Richard Power
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( L! }* u( @& A( U5 b) C, O6 o0 ~I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
% k- ^2 Y: M( }! [0 A6 F- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 19433 ^: x/ y5 l2 q- s. x; F8 r* _
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
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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.- X; t: s1 O% W! Q
- 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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* Z; E5 j- Q3 m+ }% N# t+ jThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.; c8 `, O* s: s# V
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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$ {" _+ P+ L L- `5 L6 R3 c GAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
. W. o8 Z2 E3 o- Anonymous
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2 q8 D- x- r! M5 w8 |2 Y! ~There 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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# d: p: s0 K1 ?4 V# dOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
3 P; p& x4 W0 @4 r. p/ I- Elbert Hubbard# Z+ f. z) a" q# t! z' g: I( v
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
: q7 w/ e! Q7 w' n) m' Q8 o- David Thornburg( `4 V- H% K) W# r- }) [; N$ [
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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.+ k" ]; W- D, B9 B2 r
- Anonymous
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Save early, save often.
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Build early and build often.
! h6 B' D7 s! _( s3 Y, i; O/ a& q, Z- Proprietary developer adage
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" X+ r- I- i% ^( U" V0 PRelease early and release often./ R5 `4 v1 C8 v- P9 F4 h) n. t6 P3 u( J
- Open source developer adage" T; H, L% `+ G# m& l; B
+ {2 a' T q2 T" [We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
. U' v. C5 q Z' m. @- Carl Sagan
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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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# [* J: ]5 G; H; J# vThere 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.
9 F! L, M, d2 N6 S2 Q8 B- Jerry Olson; t: A- a5 r# c4 G" Y7 `
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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.+ s1 o* a% s/ B" R1 g5 P, T# X7 N
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
0 X; K+ T7 `0 F# S9 H& o- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT V: y1 Z% c, g- ~+ @
- Fairchild Research and Development, 19698 J9 E0 N+ j' m0 W' a7 c
& @4 h0 l* B1 n pAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.# l/ q6 x2 |2 Y4 k6 [/ @ d
- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.5 R2 P: s$ H/ F) f& [- ?( w3 y! L6 Y
- Gregory Benford
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry. E$ ]. p8 q" ]0 ]( w
- Anonymous
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
! Q% k3 D( s( V: s" K- Alan J. Perlis
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9 |+ [# C, Q' S( GI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
5 n% w B5 k Z8 y( j: l- 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.
4 M- ?. ?. `" c. f3 a" C- 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! q/ N, K! G7 U# h" S
! s4 T$ d4 e I9 _: PThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.( h; ^) F- V/ V1 Y$ [
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.; z0 o1 M9 h3 n7 I' P6 ?% N
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy* K* n9 J/ x, v8 f
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Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
. E7 w' {# V! R" J' D$ d- Andrew Heller, IBM. V" x( _# ~2 m
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
6 G5 o V' u+ M- 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?! _# o: a E w* D# t
- Al Gore on Y2K! n0 g4 Q S1 K1 [) a# c0 J
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.+ y$ v; w$ S# M7 e& }# l( @/ |& y
- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it., N. {/ [+ S5 f6 _
- Linus Torvalds
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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.5 D1 P7 W& r& b% b3 a9 Q
- Linus Torvalds0 c$ J) F" S0 ]
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Windows is just DOS in drag.
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
# F0 F" [0 O9 V+ R x$ u- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 |
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