Tuesday, October 05, 2004
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
- David Thornburg
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.
- Anonymous
Release early and release often.
- Open source developer adage
GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
- Sydney Brenner in 1927
Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Einstein, Albert
" The concept is interesting and well-formed, but inorder to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible."--A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)
-- Omar N. Bradley
"The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life."
-- Andrew Brown
"The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing."
-- Douglas Engelbart
"For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three."
-- Alice Kahn
"Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century."
-- Daniel Kleppner
"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."
-- Edward R. Murrow
"Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?"
-- Clifford Stoll
The global village is not created by the motor car or even by the airplane. It’s created by instant electronic information movement. (Marshall Mcluhan)
That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers. (Larry Niven)
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog. (Peter Steiner)
Computer Science: 1. A study akin to numerology and astrology, but lacking the precision of the former and the success of the latter. 2. The boring art of coping with a large number of trivialities. (Stan Kelly-Bootle)
A friend of the Feline reports that Big Blue marketing and sales personnel have been strictly forbidden to use the word "mainframe." Instead, in an attempt to distance themselves from the dinosaur, they're to use the more PC-friendly phrase "large enterprise server." If that's the case, the Katt retorted, they should also refer to "dumb terminals" as "intelligence-challenged workstations." (Spencer Katt)
Technology happens. (Andrew Grove)
-- Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer
Author: M. G. Siriam
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