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Management Quotes: Technology Management

• If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it. -- Anonymous
• Drowning in data, yet starved of information- Ruth Stanat in The Intelligent Organization
• By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune to maintain and is still in danger of collapsing. There are no plans to replace it, since it was never needed in the first place. I expect every installation has its own pet software which is analogous to the above. -- Ken Iverson

• Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software. -- Unknown author

• On Technology Investments: - Not high tech, not low tech, just the right tech.Mark W. McBride on Scandinavian PC Systems

• Men have become the tools of their tools. -- Henry David Thoreau
• The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. -- B. F. Skinner
• Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table. - Hubert Humphrey
• Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology. -- John Tudor
• There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
• There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. -- Guy Almes
• If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything. -- John Aniston,  
• Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on! -- Rory Bremner
• The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. -- Andrew Brown
• Saying that Windows 95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the second coming. -- Guy Kawasaki
• The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon. -- Jerry Olson
• Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it. -- Gene Spafford
• In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that that computer has ever linked up to. - "Saturday Night Live, "  US television show
• If unix is the face of the future I wanna go back to quill pens. -- Joseph Snipp
• If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott Adams
• At the dawn of the 21st century, a free people must now choose to shape the forces of the Information Age and the global society, to unleash the limitless potential of all our people, and yes, to form a more perfect union. - William Jefferson Clinton, US President

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