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Management Insights
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
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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
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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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