A market is never
saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a
bad one.
- Henry Ford
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design,
manufacturing,, layout, processes, and procedures.
- Tom Peters
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast
about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
- W. Edwards Deming
Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
- T.S. Elliot
The telephone wire, as we know it, has become too slow and too
small to handle Internet traffic. It took 75 years for telephones
to be used by 50 million customers, but it took only four years
for the Internet to reach that many users.
- Lori Valigra
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
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
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
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
If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a
committee. That will do them in.
- Bradley's Bromide
There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and
UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
- Jeremy S. Anderson
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and
technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science
and technology.
- Carl Sagan
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our
dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit,
compassion, love, and understanding.
- Louis Gerstner, CEO, IBM
Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
- Anonymous
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
Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and
perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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
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 Boston in 1977
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the
initiative in creating the Internet.
- Al Gore describing his 1986 legislation to interconnect five
supercomputer centers (17 years after the first Internet servers
hooked up)
If Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell-check.
- Former Vice President J. Danforth Quayle
The day I made that statement, I was tired because I'd been up
all night inventing the Camcorder.
- Al Gore attempting damage control |
