Fun Quotations

OliveOil

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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! D2 ?9 q* E8 Q* |Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
- t, Y+ s2 u; W! l/ U" g9 s9 E% C6 P- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
# @5 t" ?) w/ K- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- B. F. Skinner
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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.
; L0 M; w5 o3 W) O- George Pompidou

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

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.
1 Z+ `+ @: j  r9 A- Anonymous
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) S& M- @2 l2 i5 O. H: L  ~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.
7 P8 L+ c+ X7 j; y4 c- Andy Rooney

. a; i" H. K) _6 x+ C: R. WIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
- Richard Power
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2 b: q0 p" t4 E4 x0 T' |# P8 RI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- C# N) `) g" w; R( Q  D8 H/ ^3 Q- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
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: F  a. z  A, F% W' @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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+ a2 e! ]6 g& e* l* o/ @# hIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
- Bradley's Bromide
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4 T, g3 c, E/ \, vThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric

6 z/ W5 I4 r7 X& o* [, aAt 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.
- 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.
- Elbert Hubbard

Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
- David Thornburg

, ^6 M% c% G0 p+ UThose 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.
- Anonymous

Save early, save often.
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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7 P+ j1 ^& ]7 ]& t4 uBuild early and build often.
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8 g9 c! N' e# G) g; eRelease early and release often.
- 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.
0 f# p* U1 L1 `* O$ t- Carl Sagan
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" x# K* H1 z) u% Z- nIf 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

7 |+ B; q( F: d1 E- GThere 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

) p+ G" C# s4 jThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
9 b5 J& u% t; V8 p  m- D- Jerry Olson

+ R: y3 m. [: V! ?1 F. C1 MThe 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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0 o8 h& A4 d7 \. S/ K; bEverything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
! r+ }# T1 U' m  O% b- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969

Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
6 Z3 l) W% O$ l2 U3 b) F/ |/ `# i+ B- Arthur C. Clarke

Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
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0 Z! q  C- P1 w; P6 t  z6 tNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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$ |- ]* f6 e  `A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
! n0 N0 p- T) }+ d8 @2 o* B# i- Alan J. Perlis
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: G# o4 v0 j! E. t: cI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
. [$ r$ j$ R( x+ z- Thomas Edison
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$ ~- i& L6 J& r! z- x. e+ c. R" sGet 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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6 f5 \$ v9 d. {9 W; @The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
- Senator Bob Dole

  a2 z  z7 b( ~3 K  A2 VComputers 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.
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy

8 Y% O0 i/ H5 {; S  R! s6 GTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
- Andrew Heller, IBM

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?
- Al Gore on Y2K
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
3 h# N' e+ x) F# D# w- Sydney Brenner in 1927

8 B! Z% z& ^3 T7 oThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
1 w. k! M& [% t$ p$ C* s& Y- Linus Torvalds
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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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0 l; H$ ~1 t+ x: A. ]) yWindows is just DOS in drag.
- Anonymous
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
1 a4 D8 G8 {$ I: s3 L- 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.
. w# G5 I# Q6 C0 D4 A- Thomas Edison

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