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Charles Phillips
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Technology
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Customization
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The entertainment value or intellectual stimulation you get from tweaking every little thing up and down that stack is not the same as what it once was...The reason you're spending so much on maintenance is because you have such a complex infrastructure to begin with, and all the diversity is part of that cost and trying to maintain all the different flavors and configurations and integrations and customizations. You've created something so complex and customized it's unique to you. You've become a technology company because what you've created is so unique.
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Chris Murphy
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Technology
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Innovation
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Innovation is an unnatural, generally uncomfortable process. It needs to be asked for, nurtured, demanded, and prodded - cattle prodded, at times - for companies to keep delivering.
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Grady Booch
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Technology
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Architecture
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Every system has an architecture. Two things I've said about architecture in the past: first, every system has an architecture - most are accidental, some are intentional; second, the hyperproductive projects I've encountered all tend to proceed by the incremental and iterative release of an executable architecture. In short, architecture is central to enduring software.
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JeaNette Smith
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Technology
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Social Networking
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Why does anyone need to keep in touch with 400 people that they hardly ever see, people they would never go out of their way to contact, were it not as easy as it is on Facebook?
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Jonathan Erickson
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Technology
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Best Practices
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...your best bet is best practices.
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Leonard Kleinrock
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Technology
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Security
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One of the problems of the Internet is that we didn't install what I like to call strong user authentication or strong file authentication. We didn't anticipate the level of the dark side we see today. The culture of the early Internet was one of trust of all the users.
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Paul Otellini
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Technology
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Security
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In the past, energy-efficient performance and connectivity have defined computing requirements. Looking forward, security will join those as a third pillar of what people demand from all computing experiences.
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Peter Coffee
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Technology
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Good Enough
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It's often said, and I agree, that "'Better' is the enemy of 'good enough'" -- but I'm not prepared to declare myself the loyal ally of one or the other. There are times when I'm prepared to hold the line against the assault of "better," but there are also times when "good enough" really is not...
"Good enough" is a phrase that ought to be used only when "success" is clearly defined. For example, President Kennedy in his May 25, 1961 address to Congress didn't say, "I believe we need to take humanity to the stars."
He said, "This nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth." The latter statement clearly defined success in terms of a deadline and a result: it drew a boundary, outside of which any additional capability at any additional cost could quickly be dismissed as another challenge for another day...
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Randy Pausch
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Technology
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Engineering
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Engineering isn't about perfect solutions. It's about doing what you can with limited resources.
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Seymour Cray
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Technology
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Power
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If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use: Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
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Spencer Bachus
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Technology
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Alerts
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Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk.
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