Fun Quotations

OliveOil

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
  j0 x4 ^& `3 C; L+ C- T.S. Elliot
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# m2 k7 o  O8 \( h% D% b640K ought to be enough for anybody.
# e4 }8 j3 Q- _( d" C. _! T& O- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981

2 n* E) O" O1 v: A8 [% ?The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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3 F' W! [) u2 x4 K* @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.
- Anonymous
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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.
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" B8 }9 s# P! y' X! J& y5 b+ PComputers 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.
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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.
4 X( r1 W5 R, T  _9 d+ ^. r+ O9 _% N- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
6 }6 I' i7 r6 t1 S; L0 n' e' I- 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.
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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& K# ?* q/ P& v/ n$ XAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
- Anonymous

( w, M- D- w0 F$ gThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
- Jeremy S. Anderson
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
; w. e; @3 q1 _. p0 r. c% l- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
# G7 d" y8 \) G+ U- David Thornburg
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# |# @% m  n# q3 t2 s( pThose 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

) h: G/ `' c# iBuild early and build often.
- Proprietary developer adage
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4 x- o" }5 g% _Release early and release often.
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5 Q+ A0 D% ]: V8 QWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
; K9 z/ s' \2 ~- Carl Sagan
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0 u( \$ |$ X5 g7 U5 FIf 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.
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" v4 O! {9 ?, J: zThere 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
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The 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.
2 n$ o: |$ s7 W- Porterfield

Everything that can be invented has been invented.
( G7 o+ m8 R' I/ d% R% a. ^- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

: N, N5 {+ U5 q) `6 r6 k$ AGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969

Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke
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1 N& L; T3 q' n  J3 @# ~3 X4 fAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
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% I  `- A! o4 y' v  F* }) m3 B# kNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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# b2 g) H' J2 }4 {- `1 m. dA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
# o2 n- q9 Q3 h$ G' q' T! ~- Alan J. Perlis

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
+ Y& D1 z$ X* Y0 w* a- Thomas Edison
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Get your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
- 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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" ~# G0 M8 _1 r3 i) }, WThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
- Senator Bob Dole
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: M# j( U' A: E0 JComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
" p2 ~' `, D! I1 U1 y, p4 q- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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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.
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, a4 d" I5 S- B/ I0 X' PHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
$ ]' ^9 X) q9 P" @0 h6 H! e- Al Gore on Y2K

The 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.
; |. E+ B7 ]7 P! G% b! X- Linus Torvalds

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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  O  I$ G  {8 B+ @6 x/ vWindows is just DOS in drag.
- Anonymous
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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

Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D