The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
- T.S. Elliot
640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- B. F. Skinner
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.
- George Pompidou
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.
- Anonymous
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.
- Anonymous
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.
- Andy Rooney
In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
- Richard Power
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
- Scott Adams
In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
- Anonymous
If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
- Bradley's Bromide
The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
- Anonymous
There are two major products that came out of
- Jeremy S. Anderson
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
Save early, save often.
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
Build early and build often.
- Proprietary developer adage
Release early and release often.
- Open source developer adage
- Carl Sagan
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.
- Anonymous
There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
- Margaret Thatcher
The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
- Jerry Olson
The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.
- Porterfield
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
- Gregory Benford
Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
- Anonymous
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
- Alan J. Perlis
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison
Get your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
- 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
The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
- Senator Bob Dole
Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
- Andrew Heller, IBM
AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
- Al Gore on Y2K
The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
- Sydney Brenner in 1927
The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
- Linus Torvalds
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.
- Linus Torvalds
Windows is just DOS in drag.
- Anonymous
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in
