Fun Quotations

OliveOil

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

, y1 U; w' s: }0 k' [Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
- T.S. Elliot

  z& J5 A0 z2 b" G$ H640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- 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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5 `  Q- S% s. d  y' }  U8 N  vThere 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

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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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.
) T) I/ p. ?: Q) B# L% r, I- Andy Rooney
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
: {( f" c3 V% M" o- S- Richard Power
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, Z& o8 i8 ~7 }  K4 n3 q3 y5 W0 z. s9 SI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
/ F! F# j! c- o) G7 |- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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" S- Z" ^5 X- e! p" O$ xIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
2 o+ h! Q. c. y! N+ Z2 B- 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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8 f, w) t6 e' L: V$ UIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
- Bradley's Bromide
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# n) C; h3 \# N- S6 jThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric

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.
- h5 Q& E  y+ O& g) s- Jeremy S. Anderson

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

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.
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- c* a; p/ w7 WSave early, save often.
' t' V- t6 r$ U- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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! R1 ?  H$ ?3 H7 WBuild early and build often.
- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often.
- Open source developer adage

5 E; `/ N1 B3 P! A* PWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
- Carl Sagan

$ h; Z+ Y2 k6 U7 v6 e1 D% AIf 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
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. l& u0 C6 Y+ r+ Z8 T7 U# M( `There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
# G7 l* \. c5 G+ @7 J- Margaret Thatcher
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8 O) }3 W* a6 S( c# d9 N  fThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
2 M2 f# F$ L. G. _- 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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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
7 B+ J$ P7 N: c2 x# x, e4 Y- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
  C7 {+ s/ W6 ~8 h4 k, ^* @- Gregory Benford

Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
- Alan J. Perlis
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1 I- C6 |# K* f. m% q0 t6 b: ?0 VI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
: d) z5 N2 ~$ X- 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.
- Senator Bob Dole
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Computers 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.
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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! p7 |6 C+ I! s7 E5 PTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
- Andrew Heller, IBM

& K, {2 R7 c# O' P. j* q/ b9 K. M( JAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
6 S7 A. o% [9 a; X, N- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos

' j" |+ |6 n* @8 f& }" XHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
9 s. K) v% v$ Y$ O0 X6 O; e5 Q- Al Gore on Y2K

+ [1 r6 Z% N1 FThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
4 f+ }5 |. y( m- Sydney Brenner in 1927

The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
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- h( Z7 x  ]3 o* L4 i) j1 ETo 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.
! ?8 Q' s& p* p- Linus Torvalds
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( x  G! k; c  @9 |# AWindows is just DOS in drag.
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
, u( B) O$ g) 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.
8 ~3 G3 }; X$ ~, y3 B- Thomas Edison
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3 n5 D0 e2 p; P: NEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D