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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
: M1 V9 ?2 o- ^2 I4 B- `0 N/ K- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?8 N' B( y8 h) J5 l6 B
- T.S. Elliot, S( P# ?) f( d: O: Q! g
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
' m2 E. M) S- y9 @: k5 N- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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; `2 ]0 ]5 B/ h5 iThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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6 u& m6 r, I( e+ TThere 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.7 c- p) w4 v" Q8 X$ I
- 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.+ _2 c6 a# o+ N. E, K
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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.
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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.
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.; _0 z' B3 b9 E5 S7 V- @
- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
6 [5 D+ f4 r1 m+ P- 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.
6 Y2 }, F. K8 j/ f) \6 G- 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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/ }: }2 e' ^1 y, w; E& eIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.3 A0 V; ?0 x- g) B/ D
- Bradley's Bromide5 m3 |2 Z7 W! u0 m0 E
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
" ?6 j1 Q# V9 @1 ^% z- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.! I& `4 I0 v) F; Y" X
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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.
$ e6 R. Q$ T2 D- Jeremy S. Anderson
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) Y ?' Q1 r# ?9 r3 F( v. bOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. d& X( a6 w* ] M
- Elbert Hubbard: f8 a0 i* X/ m) ?1 ]- D
% [2 n+ d$ ^3 n! N4 NAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.9 }4 }& v' w9 f4 |
- 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.. a/ g/ R+ P0 k, S( D" \
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Save early, save often.# y& j# Z$ R: l
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word7 c! _9 T z) k4 C
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Build early and build often.
4 }% ]% {- E2 i. m- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often.
" O. R# ~( L6 B- Open source developer adage
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1 q3 S6 V8 A' RWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
; G- K% l; ]% d5 M- Carl Sagan3 ^' o* }5 p& \4 Q$ r/ t
}1 x: ~+ p3 z2 ?- o& @$ }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.2 \- ~; k4 C7 a3 R7 S
- Anonymous
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/ O! X4 P6 P! M9 z5 V% [There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
0 Q: Y; S3 `% |& v- Margaret Thatcher
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
/ I- ~5 C1 ?. R* M& M" a" v- Jerry Olson+ m$ Y |; _4 \+ L- d( P
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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.9 b8 ]# _, b, A7 |" b
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6 ], v1 R* c% r: h' Z0 s0 i- ~Everything that can be invented has been invented.( p3 B! `# S' V( {; d7 z7 w, o0 \
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
: G# s1 J8 y( p1 ~" L- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969# K# i5 k1 v( ~( r0 ?1 d7 M
8 A' B+ E; `5 G8 V; J$ d& f; JAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.- G5 {1 M( A9 D) z1 Q
- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
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3 ~# v# F6 v4 [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.
$ I8 e' ^3 N* y- Alan J. Perlis
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! T5 c+ @% }- D8 r2 G% fI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
! y4 b* K4 {5 s- 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.6 w1 [* o3 j- Y% h: J L9 h
- 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) R2 V9 L) F3 L3 ]4 l B$ d8 O! F
. z( Q) J; m `: X+ p% uThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.+ x- y7 ~! C, B" M
- Senator Bob Dole* u& ^/ q% C, s$ l; s9 v& B
" Y4 ~( g, I9 n- M3 P; mComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.) F$ M' A$ A2 S) {& Q
- Popular Mechanics, 1949, J( S. J4 V$ j# k; {! c2 S! V
; e" C1 ~& e* u5 T From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
' Z2 }- \ q- a L& ^- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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9 {: m' m9 {& a" DTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
1 X s5 x& d# R4 p8 W3 N- Andrew Heller, IBM
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, U# b' w" ^7 K: Q- G& K: | m+ e+ vAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.4 o$ [3 b* m! A4 K$ k
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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2 a2 e2 p' c W( ]7 p& ]How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?; i0 B; r; V+ y. [, R) d: N4 T; z
- Al Gore on Y2K
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0 K( \% V' o$ \, qThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
6 ?+ K/ P+ Q, L- 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.
7 K9 m' L4 B3 _! H: ? W- Linus Torvalds. Z1 \& K. Z4 T8 {
& g" a& @6 ] S% |, c! DTo 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.
! Y. E- ~, ^ C$ l: F0 `, o# L( Q- Linus Torvalds
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Windows is just DOS in drag.5 k }6 C2 B- {, M2 ?( Y M
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/ E) X U6 m2 \7 Q% w/ fThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
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