Technology Quotes
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Quote : The Twentieth Century, the innovative century that brought you WW I, WW II, and WWW.
Bill Higgins
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Quote : Everything that can be invented has been invented.
Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents
, 1899
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Quote : The world isn't run by weapons anymore, or energy, or money. It's run by little ones and zeroes, little bits of data. It's all just electrons.
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Quote : The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all his customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place.
Douglas Adams
Quote : There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
Ken Olson, DEC President
, 1977
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Quote : If the designers of X-Windows built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed the same principles -- but you'd be able to shift gears with your car stereo. Useful feature, that.
Marus J. Ranum Digital Equipment Corporation
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Quote : Everything that I've learned about computers at MIT I have boiled down into three principles- Unix: You think it won't work, but if you find the right wizard, they can make it work. Macintosh: You think it will work, but it won't. PC/Windows: You think it won't work, and it won't.
Philip Greenspun
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Quote : Right behind sex, commerce on the Internet seems to excite people the most.
President, RSA Data Security
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Quote : We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.
Robert Wilensky
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Quote : I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
Thomas Watson Chairman of IBM
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