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Tuesday, October 05, 2004

The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
- 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.

Orwell, George

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.)



"If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."
-- 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 real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. (B. F. Skinner)

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)




It's ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute. (Marvin Minsky)


If McDonalds were run like a software company, one out of every hundred Big Macs would give you food poisoning -- and the response would be, "We're sorry, here's a coupon for two more". (Mark Minasi)

How would a car function if it were designed like a computer? Occasionally, executing a maneuver would cause your car to stop and fail and you would have to re-install the engine, and the airbag system would say, "Are you sure?" before going off. (Katie Hafner)

All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer. (1925 IBM Maintenence Manual)

So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work f or you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'"
-- Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer

Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame.
Author: M. G. Siriam

Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.
Linus Torvalds

We've heard that a million monkeys at a keyboard could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.
Robert Wilensky

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
Clive James

You are what you browse....Kent

Bill Gates is a very rich man today .. and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.
Dave Barry

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