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James Coates
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Science Quotes by James Coates (2 quotes)
Fatware has been a nasty little dance that we’ve endured for most of this decade. Intel builds a hot new machine and Microsoft follows quickly with new and ever more bulky software that consumes all of the new machine’s resources to do its stuff. So, Intel builds another machine…
— James Coates
In The Chicago Tribune (1 Feb 1998).
There never was a chip, it is said, that Bill Gates couldn’t slow down with a new batch of features.
— James Coates
In The Chicago Tribune (1 Feb 1998).
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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