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 | "640K ought to be enough for anybody." | |
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Bill Gates
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| "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from
a simple system that worked." | |
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John Gall
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| "A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in
human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and
tequila." | |
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Mitch Ratcliffe
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| "Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the
propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to
miss lunch." | |
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Tim Berners-Lee
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| "Applying computer technology is simply finding the right wrench to
pound in the correct screw." | |
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Unknown
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| "Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave
like the ones in movies." | |
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Bill Bulko
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| "Before we work on artificial intelligence why don"t we do something
about natural stupidity?" | |
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Steve Polyak
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| "Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers." | |
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Leonard Brandwein
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| "Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides
who"s going to build." | |
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Larry Ellison
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| "C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder,
but when you do, it blows away your whole leg." | |
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Bjarne Stroustrup
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| "Calculations which required a $20 million machine eight years ago
can be done on a Mac cluster costing about $11,000." | |
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Dean Dauger
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| "Computer : a million morons working at the speed of light." | |
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David Ferrier
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| "Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no
mercy." | |
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Joseph Campbell
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| "Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams,
but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love,
and understanding." | |
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Louis Gerstner
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| "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." | |
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Pablo Picasso
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| "Computers shouldn"t be unusable. You don"t need to know how to work
a telephone switch to make a phone call, or how to use the Hoover Dam to
take a shower, or how to work a nuclear-power plant to turn on the
lights." | |
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Scott McNealy
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| "Computing is not about computers any more. It is about
living." | |
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Nicholas Negroponte
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| "Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn"t USENET be spelled
ABUSENET?" | |
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Michael Meissner
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| "Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It
offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the
government... It"s hard to think of a more powerful, less dangerous tool
for liberty." | |
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Esther Dyson
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| "First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to
turn numbers into letters with ASCII ? and we thought it was a typewriter.
Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the
World Wide Web, we"ve realized it"s a brochure." | |
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Douglas Noel Adams
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| "Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything
can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a
logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal." | |
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Stewart Alsop
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| "Grove giveth and Gates taketh away." | |
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Bob Metcalfe
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| "Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked." | |
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Jeff Pesis
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| "Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions,
including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog." | |
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Doug Larson
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| "I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go...
At the same time, we told OEMs that if they were going to put a bunch of
icons on the desktop, then so were we." | |
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Jim Allchin
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| "I find sitting at a specially equipped desk in front of some pretty
ugly plastics and staring at a little window is a very unnatural
event." | |
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Harold Hambrose
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| "I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray." | |
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Seymoure Cray
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| "I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me and I"m
afraid that"s something I cannot allow to happen." | |
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HAL 9000
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| "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death
that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to
pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the
inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain" | |
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Frank Patrick Herbert
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| "I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says
something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so
far is purely destructive. We"ve created life in our own image." | |
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Stephen W. Hawking
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| "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." | |
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Thomas Watson
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| "I think there"s a world market for about five computers. Quoted by
Charles Hard Townes In Martin Moskovits (Ed.), Science and Society, the
John C. Polanyi Nobel Lareates Lectures, Anansi Press, Concord, Ontario,
1995, p 8." | |
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Thomas J. Watson
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| "I"m struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things
out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of
mental activity." | |
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Brian Eno
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| "If automobiles had followed the same development cycle as the
computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per
gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside." | |
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Robert Cringely
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| "If Unix is the face of the future I want to go back to quill
pens." | |
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Joseph Snipp
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| "If you don"t double-click me, I can"t do anything." | |
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John Aniston
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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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Scott Adams
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| "Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the
usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody
thinks of complaining." | |
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Jeff Raskin
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| "In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading
lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to
another computer, you"re linking up to every computer that that computer
has ever linked up to." | |
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Dennis Miller
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| "It [the computer] is the first metamedium, and as such it has
degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before
encountered and as yet barely investigated." | |
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Alan Kay
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| "Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came
along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was
difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the
country know about it." | |
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Mark Leeper
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| "Man is a game playing animal and a computer is another way to play
games." | |
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Scott Raymond Adams
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| "Man is the most extraordinary computer of all." | |
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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| "Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well
beyond the scope of fair competition." | |
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Orrin Hatch
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| "Never trust a computer you can"t throw out a window." | |
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Steve Wozniak
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| "Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the
trowel." | |
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Herbert V. Prochnow
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| "Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is
competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely
honest." | |
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Isaac Asimov
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| "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to
build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to
produce bigger and better idoits. So far, the Universe is winning." | |
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Rich Cook
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| "Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as
reading sex manuals without the software." | |
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Arthur C. Clarke
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| "Real programmers can write assembly code in any language." | |
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Larry Wall
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| "Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato
that looks like Jesus and believing you"ve witnessed the second
coming." | |
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Guy Kawasaki
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| "Since the invention of the microprocessor, the cost of moving a byte
of information around has fallen on the order of 10-million-fold. Never
before in the human history has any product or service gotten 10 million
times cheaper-much less in the course of a couple decades. That"s as if a
747 plane, once at $150 million a piece, could now be bought for about the
price of a large pizza." | |
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Michael Rothschild
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| "Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools
that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul
alone." | |
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Jaron Lanier
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| "The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m sec sec." | |
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Marcus Dolengo
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| "The computer is a moron." | |
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Peter F. Drucker
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| "The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone
is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created
in the form of computer programs." | |
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Joseph Weizenbaum
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| "The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as
smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them
halfway." | |
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Bernard Avishai
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| "The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers
handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and
shoot all the other computers." | |
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Jamais Cascio
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| "The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of
writing or even of printing." | |
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Douglas Engelbart
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| "The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon." | |
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Jerry Olson
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| "The Linux philosophy is "Laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong
One. "Do it yourself". Yes, that"s it." | |
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Linus Torvalds
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| "The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they
foul up there"s no law against wacking them around a little." | |
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Porterfield
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| "The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest
problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the
communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and
how to say it." | |
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Edward R. Murrow
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| "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting
than the question of whether a submarine can swim." | |
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E. W. Dijkstra
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| "The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men,
but that men will begin to think like computers." | |
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Sydney J. Harris
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| "The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men
do." | |
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B. F. Skinner
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| "The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore,
be regarded as a criminal offense." | |
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Edsgar Dijkstra
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| "There are three kinds of death in this world. There"s heart death,
there"s brain death, and there"s being off the network." | |
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Guy Almes
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| "There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
The first method is far more difficult." | |
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C. A. R. Hoare
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| "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their
home." | |
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Ken Olson
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| "There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer." | |
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J. H. Goldfuss
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| "There never was a chip, it is said, that Bill Gates couldn"t slow
down with a new batch of features." | |
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James Coates
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| "They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass
destruction." | |
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Janet Reno
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| "Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don"t let anybody else use
it, and get a new one every six months." | |
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Clifford Stoll
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| "What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese
computers?" | |
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Walter F. Mondale
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| "Why shouldn"t a PC work like a refrigerator or a toaster?" | |
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Walter Mossberg
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