Fun Quotations

OliveOil

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
( C# d" @7 B: `3 k- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
/ X% U9 h, q; p- a3 T. Z7 @( Z- T.S. Elliot

! {0 P) v, }# e+ G$ l640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981

+ J) i/ M, f% K8 l9 \7 g4 p$ SThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
$ k& u, c8 Y/ f# T$ j  N- 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

/ z9 [6 v7 _5 \  u; O. NTechnology 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.
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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.
% E! m; o$ O+ q( {- u- Andy Rooney
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: V' [$ H! t% r& wIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
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$ D' I" d9 L* h  C' ?. }; R" d; _I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
% Y1 L& N- C: d* f; E- Scott Adams
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0 v# H$ D& r6 I# K3 @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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If 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.
- i  q) T) c" ?: l* O/ f- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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* \% _6 {- j1 c+ s3 [At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
- Anonymous
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2 z' q/ x6 _) F9 U! |. g) QThere 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.
/ m( p& j* h. ~4 t6 l, B; g- Elbert Hubbard
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3 @8 g5 P1 N; P4 N0 n# BAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
- David Thornburg

: |/ L0 C, H: t0 \0 SThose 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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" |- T* B0 |) V5 qBuild early and build often.
- Proprietary developer adage
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0 R/ C* S* ?" L- F4 S2 }3 TRelease early and release often.
- Open source developer adage

* U, V& J& E# s" D+ X4 S6 }2 G+ P: _We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
- Carl Sagan

2 {, m: E2 }* }" C; c( bIf 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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# e3 F: v; d) c+ P7 ^The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
5 P, u. W( k- @" U! h4 W9 r1 O: O0 j2 J- Jerry Olson
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  [& i1 l" N% v. f$ oThe 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 ^: g$ O1 _+ u$ j8 t7 _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
# O- ]- l! c8 S  Q4 d- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969

( I" O; q3 P$ X8 |' a0 IAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke

5 U6 F6 x9 y! m4 ~& J* O! [& _9 MAny 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.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
1 s& G' x' t. x' `  p5 W1 Y- Alan J. Perlis

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison

Get your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
1 F- o% J5 v+ N0 v6 C( K- 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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. A! i: h6 v* i1 vThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
7 R4 p# s$ N( n9 J* L) C- Senator Bob Dole

Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
) d# G3 Z: \8 T& d, I: c. t3 U- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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/ b; L! i1 x4 T3 {" s From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
/ q7 Z+ H1 y% A3 C' T' \- 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.
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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6 Z8 w& ^. s- F$ ~1 Y3 L! PAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos

' R# V2 j7 \6 }How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
7 i8 p0 p' N  a/ l' U- Al Gore on Y2K

. ~5 P3 n0 ?1 l. _The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
7 M9 z5 I, _. h6 l7 z4 R- 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.
( z7 u- H- E6 ~8 z( j- Linus Torvalds
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2 V  g/ [& Z0 ^$ X, ]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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/ |( k/ ]; D( ]Windows is just DOS in drag.
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
  Z2 j$ K7 B1 r, X' t2 `- 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.
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Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D