Fun Quotations

OliveOil

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
# K2 \( H& ^4 H' l4 _. U  J( k2 [- Andrew S. Tannenbaum

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
' D4 o$ D) |; P1 I/ |- T.S. Elliot

/ |8 [. n, e1 c+ I2 M$ @640K ought to be enough for anybody.
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- B. F. Skinner

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.
- George Pompidou
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, g3 K$ B+ i6 Y) s+ Z+ v2 {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.
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For years there has been a theory that millions of monkeys typing at random on millions of typewriters would reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. The Internet has proven this theory to be untrue.
- Anonymous
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1 ^( {8 q3 @, e) VComputers 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

In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
- Richard Power

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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- V" X8 E( f. t% UIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
- Scott Adams
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In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
- Anonymous
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
- Bradley's Bromide
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
! I2 g/ L. `; ]- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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9 f$ O5 D  g- D( h! zAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
- Anonymous

2 ^3 a2 G, D" E: O( G  k8 d4 mThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
1 |) l/ r( {4 K' o" `- Jeremy S. Anderson

. ~# q+ `& ^4 d$ b/ hOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
- David Thornburg

Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
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Save early, save often.
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often.
- Proprietary developer adage

Release early and release often.
- Open source developer adage
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5 z" d8 f% T* D' R7 ]We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
: Y( H: ~  I: d4 Z- |% \, b- Carl Sagan
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: C; \2 Z4 M5 _3 v7 ~If you tried to read every document on the web, then for each day's effort you would be a year further behind in your goal.
- Anonymous
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) H2 n: H% |( nThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
1 B+ z0 J+ ]: k# \# Q; |0 O6 B- Margaret Thatcher
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
- Jerry Olson
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$ o2 z1 w* a) F5 ?; j5 AThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969

Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
; K. ^2 B( C) n1 I7 Q- Arthur C. Clarke
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& ]8 Z. F" H8 E) H3 b5 d# @. PAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
6 a) c$ a3 Q* S( Q( C1 _- Gregory Benford

3 l/ \& `  R. T( u4 V0 _7 ~2 b7 m; I+ FNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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" d) T+ o8 [" H" S  z1 fA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
- Alan J. Perlis

# ^) W9 B/ {$ UI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison
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7 X: g" O4 x+ C3 p9 ^0 g7 y5 c7 PGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
/ y! @* D7 o+ J! g* x- 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
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
- Senator Bob Dole
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
6 ~0 M- X* U( L. Q) w! y$ n- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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4 o$ ^* f/ b! P7 ] From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy

3 b& S8 g( {- a. S0 H# g; [Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
# P( j! m! @& J# m0 ]- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos

7 S+ m/ H/ s. uHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
- Al Gore on Y2K

3 e: P3 U  p/ E* k( B' G. fThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
. z! P2 A8 x# U+ Z& @, w1 m. _- Sydney Brenner in 1927

The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
( p) z" w; }( s' Z- Linus Torvalds
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/ X4 ?, D- `5 h) o4 C1 DTo be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.
- Linus Torvalds

Windows is just DOS in drag.
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5 u) {# t; k2 n% ^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

connie

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison

* K* Z" w) p1 @Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D