Fun Quotations

OliveOil

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
9 Z0 |3 t) V. H* T: ?3 \1 @+ a- Andrew S. Tannenbaum

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
! w8 e+ F- H2 i$ x- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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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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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.
7 t- v' C: ?8 U4 Y6 K* ^- Anonymous
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$ q5 x4 j( C% W! u. p& ?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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) U% {+ A2 P% ~Computers 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.
5 ]/ o- M* \+ {8 I1 ?3 y- Andy Rooney
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: U$ I0 M' o) G  p" j" jIn 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.
$ B) C( Z4 t: k( v; S- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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8 E0 Y% u- G3 Q- s+ b; U) q8 rIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
- Scott Adams

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

+ K8 ]* ]/ j: b0 TIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
- Bradley's Bromide

: y7 f. l7 D1 f& P7 _5 C' b) VThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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( ^& v* {0 n' R/ D/ T, g, ~At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
- Anonymous

There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
  \. w$ @# w) A/ t7 W) b- Jeremy S. Anderson
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8 c) E2 p5 {: s5 oOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
  z" d+ \2 L5 ^- Elbert Hubbard

Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
- David Thornburg
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' ~; _8 n0 M9 f; i5 e8 p5 C( RThose 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.
( c* c7 Z2 C3 e8 C- Anonymous

4 l. x1 e+ L% u4 ^% ASave early, save often.
9 L5 H5 Y# M7 X# o" U8 q5 e- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word

: q" Z# D6 A% HBuild early and build often.
: f. m( Q3 s2 G% ]- Proprietary developer adage
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! E9 p; E5 }% v/ v& O% `Release early and release often.
" r$ f$ `7 B$ {+ q9 S' r- Open source developer adage
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
2 N! G8 Z+ g0 q8 c; L4 c7 o( J/ U- Carl Sagan
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( ~- q  k# f6 _0 n9 a! ]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.
( z" R1 S7 m. A- Anonymous
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, y8 B9 A+ L0 VThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
- Margaret Thatcher

4 o/ `" j5 C# {6 @0 V5 gThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
- Jerry Olson

The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.
- Porterfield
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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  q( m1 i: {) g9 Y" c  p- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
) i9 ~, [; l% k: h* U, Y% V- Arthur C. Clarke

Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
- Gregory Benford

Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
- Anonymous
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
- Alan J. Perlis

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

Get your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
7 o( p7 Z7 b: n4 U3 t- 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

( L9 ^! p1 t3 \# ?' i: KThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
- Senator Bob Dole
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5 R3 g8 q0 n: y& jComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
  {) b0 y0 a4 r' R% @- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy

Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
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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

How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
* l: {( C* ?+ `4 b- D) ^- C5 T- Al Gore on Y2K
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1 b' H" `) ~" K; O  u4 f( e9 \2 ZThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
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To 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
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, F# L3 O3 e+ m" F5 ~Windows is just DOS in drag.
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
# s: {; k+ w# T( y8 C- 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.
& E" L( {' y: Q) z& C- Thomas Edison

3 l, [. v8 Q! P, WEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D