Fun Quotations

OliveOil

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
  W4 j/ s+ ?5 [: Q- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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  K0 ^" d( q- ^Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
% L, F! p, E- r/ r+ B$ G7 o4 M- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
: {; A* w, a8 C( m: G- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
6 Y3 l2 M& V# p- B. F. Skinner
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; s% b$ D  J4 C0 a( jThere 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

# N1 X& [# |! Z; [. M6 n% d6 {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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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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( v" E& u2 o! i& c# s& \In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
- Richard Power
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. J+ c' ], c% H% G  ^! _I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943

6 @' N9 b: r7 m% m7 dIf 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.
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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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1 u* C7 @% [- e& _- E& y+ eThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
- Anonymous
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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.
- Jeremy S. Anderson

) v/ f# M% h8 m, b4 z5 ZOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
9 Q4 g: N& C8 Y" v, [- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
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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.
- Anonymous
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Save early, save often.
2 H# B& L- ?4 I& B5 f6 E- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word

Build early and build often.
- Proprietary developer adage

. V" ?9 I* t/ c, z9 Z! xRelease early and release often.
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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.
- Carl Sagan
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' i6 v5 n2 G3 rIf 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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There 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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. Y2 i- f) \6 }2 `. M, J. _+ JThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
; W4 e# X$ V* T: k- Jerry Olson
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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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, m6 F- f$ x0 q) N0 e$ b* E0 ~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
% t" T1 ]4 d1 P8 `- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
* C" B& s# F6 }! c0 t- Arthur C. Clarke

Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
- Gregory Benford
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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.
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( f1 J: C2 I1 S( {# QI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
" }) u0 q6 T/ Q% h- 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

  W5 x/ a2 m" Q( p3 rThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
- Senator Bob Dole

& \" l% e0 x2 ^3 Z7 V5 A2 P1 Z# R6 UComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
- Popular Mechanics, 1949

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
( g& l" u+ e& P, Y) z- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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+ ^7 m1 [/ _. }) e4 r* J/ zTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
; d5 g$ }5 G" y- Andrew Heller, IBM
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$ H6 o6 w" j4 O; oAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
$ U1 @+ d- m- ]: I9 t1 X- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos

. A5 }& K% ]4 C- w$ d8 a; iHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
- 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.
9 F$ w, @6 J/ f9 G( L8 o; O9 E* T- Linus Torvalds
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/ ]- _( w% l! H& N+ G- [5 u" GTo 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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8 k- [( b+ F) X7 o  d( [Windows is just DOS in drag.
- Anonymous

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.
4 A4 S+ z- N) g8 |7 ?- Thomas Edison

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