Fun Quotations

OliveOil

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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4 R- x5 R8 c/ L2 HWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
0 d' ?, g* D; P/ h- T.S. Elliot
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0 p6 m- ~! U0 G$ Z; L; E9 A! ~5 L5 [640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981

( i' t/ j$ p6 }# F" N$ D$ h+ HThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
# p( P, @0 ]1 P& R7 c- B. F. Skinner
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4 F6 Q/ g: M; z6 v8 oThere 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.
2 v8 {' s6 l( q* k1 s- 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

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

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.
9 W% B( t% Y. \) ^7 r- k. ~- Andy Rooney
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
: c4 p  u- z, H; e- 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.
7 x. s0 `8 x" W, G+ b- Scott Adams
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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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, K& w2 q; t  R3 f" `3 oIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
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7 J; z. M/ b% x0 f; EThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
9 ]/ r, V# ~) o( o- 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.
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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

/ G- [! j( Z+ S  c' ~% _One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
& B& r8 `$ O  X& R6 P6 ?8 O; Q- Elbert Hubbard
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$ f$ ^8 }. P9 I/ C: W% [Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
: L7 p6 s. O9 @9 v  |4 b6 q5 a- David Thornburg

/ e3 z. q/ X: x+ o. o4 y, H) vThose 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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8 K3 l9 q  b/ C( O5 K8 ESave early, save often.
* Y& f" Y8 t4 e5 d- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word

Build early and build often.
- Proprietary developer adage

( n  q3 R1 D; ?& dRelease early and release often.
# s4 m" W9 `+ _6 q& T- Open source developer adage

/ Z7 d$ m/ `! jWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
: a! v( }+ X  t+ ?- Carl Sagan

) H# x8 `6 n% f$ gIf 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.
$ z: [& t/ v' r# x" r& e* Z! G- Margaret Thatcher

The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
- Jerry Olson

- |3 `+ B5 z( N3 Z9 f8 nThe 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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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

2 Q, J  J; {3 j: W, r8 Y2 NGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
& Q$ u4 b7 {) e- Arthur C. Clarke

7 ]1 C* s  i9 e- WAny 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.
- Alan J. Perlis
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
3 n6 K) {2 [' Z, h$ b7 H- Thomas Edison
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- G4 I3 t6 a2 S* LGet 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

The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
# r# W8 i+ w% k- Senator Bob Dole

Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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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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& L( f. v0 L8 b- ~* UTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
2 [. O7 P# u$ b( J/ V. Q5 }- Andrew Heller, IBM

AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
, J- ~6 B- s1 x) ?! X2 h% R- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos

, g7 o/ S' P3 B) N& WHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
% O4 L1 k) t" J' m$ z2 D- Al Gore on Y2K

& A) j# `6 W2 j0 y) f( |The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
4 ~2 L( H0 t$ V, `# ^$ g  _- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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" _0 V4 U* c- R4 t- q8 U# I9 pThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
- Linus Torvalds

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

$ ~4 p/ X1 F. |. a( C+ mWindows is just DOS in drag.
- Anonymous

+ r( d9 d# p2 H% tThere 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.
' E' J+ c! ~, i: Z: u# w- Thomas Edison
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Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D