Fun Quotations

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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
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0 _3 |6 |( ]4 E1 sWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
' M3 {! o* O% C" p- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
; E1 x8 ^( F, z( Z# I2 f- 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.
5 m3 k8 S8 _/ U- l9 Y! L4 C' [, ]- 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.
" n0 e% u* ?* w' Q8 ^/ n- Anonymous

1 W, q( c2 \' d: R7 tFor 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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4 c# x. P$ r+ d  mComputers 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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( _9 w  W6 V/ }0 a6 wIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
- Richard Power
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4 m' ]7 P) _( R( W$ RI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943

! f/ k; X/ j6 m9 n, aIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
3 z3 y+ P3 ~. L: B; o3 m- 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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) E- T4 }* ~' Y8 Y, @+ U& `If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
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% [: Q1 J. N- z( ^" W. ~! g0 P# XThe 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.
4 o1 X4 L$ a$ v. ]- Anonymous

There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
- Y* q* y/ M' @; G+ ?6 D: u- Jeremy S. Anderson

! M4 o* \" x+ j1 UOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
  u) p! b# G. I" }; P% R- Elbert Hubbard

Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
. R* J: O# a2 p- David Thornburg

% h1 L9 O" f* E- x# e  {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.
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word

Build early and build often.
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Release early and release often.
; C6 l/ d: F! `! u- w: q- Open source developer adage

0 E$ c4 J: b# z. U0 E7 g4 Y, fWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
% s  u, }# H3 C! ?/ I+ C4 t0 I- Carl Sagan

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

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

3 P; S( Y! e3 I4 g8 M9 f7 JThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
- 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

Everything that can be invented has been invented.
2 c/ L$ a0 B7 `" j  D9 F- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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$ b, a; L: n7 g8 _5 ?GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
4 o% R+ l1 d3 u! y+ U- Arthur C. Clarke
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6 S8 j0 \' Y4 l; Z3 p; i+ xAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
- Gregory Benford

9 o4 b2 I& v% s+ p1 Z- e4 q$ YNever 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.
- Alan J. Perlis

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

$ `7 E5 L# D9 P0 M  V+ A0 NGet 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

# I2 \7 w# A4 J% jThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
0 E7 H( c( t4 r0 x1 R; R- Senator Bob Dole
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: ^7 Y' H' q* |' kComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
9 _! r7 C. t' v  M) D) V& \- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
4 [+ n- v  o1 N" a; W8 V, E- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy

3 t/ s3 u* A6 C: I: LTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
2 g' T) x$ S0 [. m7 v2 k* v- |% [- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos

. K0 l* w' g" q+ q( HHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
. j3 q+ I4 t- P- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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! Z  o4 M7 a' n9 M- {- \The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
9 J: c/ x* }/ X  F# Y! t3 T- Linus Torvalds
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6 ?& Q" K2 B2 E4 VTo 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

Windows is just DOS in drag.
- Anonymous

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
, I, v) T1 I: f$ e9 `# U' M- 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