Fun Quotations

OliveOil

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
) k8 N' N3 P- N5 K* M- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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: n. [, Y  p2 W5 C, Y. ^) kWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
- T.S. Elliot
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" h" d) \. r" }" }. g2 |640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981

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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0 E( ~  z7 P* F0 D8 {$ XTechnology 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

+ I: y! @5 d9 |5 \2 b9 V! ]2 _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.
9 K% z+ F% Z+ ?: x# e8 n- Anonymous

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.
- Andy Rooney
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7 K- B9 i, u: QIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
" U! C# `. ~, T, i, j3 K- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943

8 r) m$ R% z. p- EIf 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
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- R/ Y- P* S, L: ?- f7 f' D/ bIf 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.
/ \* L4 ^* C1 D" l- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric

+ @, f3 N4 o+ c8 hAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
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There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
, X5 U$ P, L* \# M1 H- Jeremy S. Anderson
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; y5 l5 f, T7 V; l9 U$ P7 p/ R6 AOne 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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+ o& [6 o5 q3 ~- y% r) {8 t0 mAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
- David Thornburg
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: e! |2 y8 n8 n* c: q" D: c& HThose 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
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Save early, save often.
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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/ R- l; U% }* `+ }Build early and build often.
4 `/ E! G9 q: }5 q/ ?8 _% A- Proprietary developer adage

! A" H6 a9 D: Y# iRelease early and release often.
- Open source developer adage

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
7 ?* n, s* M) K! w+ ]0 u. E! Q; O- Carl Sagan
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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

7 O* g) D! v$ ^There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
/ `5 \. z3 ^# |( ]+ r! }- Margaret Thatcher

9 L* f! _( p. i1 h6 W- ^% VThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
- Jerry Olson
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8 R( X, f- H. K8 v7 Q9 H  ]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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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
8 x' P. s3 b& ^9 H  K* K- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969

# Y- x2 n" r3 W/ F; T6 XAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
+ I/ C. n) d, H% J- Arthur C. Clarke

' z/ E8 i5 x; S0 q% tAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
- z3 j+ O+ ^0 _- Gregory Benford
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) j2 L) L2 g$ H7 @& q4 J% iNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.
/ s8 t5 j3 ^0 m) y+ y6 |- Anonymous
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
6 H# Z% b/ h; m; G0 Q- Alan J. Perlis

* x+ k( Y, \3 S3 s  GI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- 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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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
% N3 P6 q1 T, N- Senator Bob Dole
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4 i0 n) V; b7 z. zComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
- Popular Mechanics, 1949

8 w% q5 o$ V. k- m6 n0 E From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
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Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
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& \9 w* z6 ?$ i+ i# H  MAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
- e& H9 w% T/ D6 W- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
- Al Gore on Y2K

$ R% f6 V) I% J/ y6 e& KThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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6 _" X1 b* [! H* J) i2 b  ~The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
# h+ {- {3 n7 `# U" E- Linus Torvalds
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2 B4 u7 r) P5 t6 n3 {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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. p4 E- Q! b8 @1 EWindows is just DOS in drag.
- Anonymous
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
' z: w- _2 Y$ X3 J- 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
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Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D