Fun Quotations

OliveOil

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
* |4 y: B" \; X) \- Q+ P- j- Andrew S. Tannenbaum

3 A4 H; J" R& X, HWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
: l1 c0 y, {2 t' u- }- f/ \- T.S. Elliot
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( a, E7 t% Z; X; j8 r9 S# c3 U640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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3 a% Q, I3 z7 j2 j* C4 oThe 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.
- George Pompidou
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( x' I, t7 `7 f1 w6 x+ ^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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" H- P* d$ y3 i- CFor 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.
- Andy Rooney

In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
; Z# w1 C1 i' t7 P/ }- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- 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.
. y. O1 v& v! }- Scott Adams

  F  `6 b2 ?" YIn 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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- H/ T5 q& g, b3 |" C# pIf 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.
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric

" d; M. C. }/ V4 E; L$ P+ PAt 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.
- 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.
7 T' ^# x: S) o% p- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
- David Thornburg

4 ^, g/ q; w# `3 O2 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.
# g& x' g4 `3 M7 H& h6 u# ?- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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" ^8 r; K# U# _) `Build early and build often.
( B7 U+ D* u! V) a* S: X! T- Proprietary developer adage

& Y  R  \& X, S9 s4 W5 t* rRelease early and release often.
9 a7 e1 }1 I3 L: K5 a6 @$ p- 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.
- Carl Sagan
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8 x: i5 K9 R, r5 z6 j$ r1 mIf 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.
9 I' f% a/ b# o1 `- Anonymous
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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.
1 p4 C0 X: ]: F& c2 Q- Margaret Thatcher
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
- Jerry Olson
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: _4 W8 k: K( }+ [The 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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. Y- @! H$ ], J2 [6 AEverything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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# W" |' O' Q+ i! f6 M6 IGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969

Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke

0 j/ G# @7 v8 F( ]& _5 [/ ?" W4 xAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
- Gregory Benford

) Y% A3 q: F& d/ Q; jNever 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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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
& W( ?; S. x5 e: q- Thomas Edison
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' i& Q) H5 h0 d2 A2 xGet 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

Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
6 N' m; G# a9 z/ k- ]3 ^# A- 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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Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
5 l, s3 u& f. p2 f* `! q- Andrew Heller, IBM

: E4 h8 Q' w+ ^5 x0 G; ?/ BAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
5 y1 s8 Z4 U0 Q) N- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos

. c5 n6 c; h% {! B) vHow 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.
6 t7 ~$ q% W$ p- Linus Torvalds
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- h) p, f% N9 `" B" P$ a  s1 W& h6 V. YTo 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.
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: s0 B$ q1 C/ O( [; bWindows is just DOS in drag.
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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.
1 Y& z( d* ]9 }) V" n' Q$ S, m; A- Thomas Edison

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