Fun Quotations

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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
; Z# u( d- s) X6 t: Y- Andrew S. Tannenbaum

) b$ Z% D& g  _1 `: E2 E0 m, v6 oWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
- T.S. Elliot

640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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. v0 f3 e! S* c1 U7 h; FThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- B. F. Skinner
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4 y8 ^) ^" V: C# @1 ?& Q" X3 k$ m( sThere 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.
: H3 S+ i0 x9 T7 H+ C- George Pompidou

  F! s% {1 v. _7 OTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
3 F9 r5 G! w$ B% W8 D$ l- Anonymous
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+ Y! J! ^0 g: ^/ q' q4 z( OFor 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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! l- R3 v! a, A7 V, lComputers 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.
+ x, A! j* {% W5 f- Andy Rooney

In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
, q$ _, w4 F1 g; {1 s9 d; e- Richard Power
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' X- |1 [  Z0 ^I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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! J5 M7 Z. o2 Z. J  C6 ]& @If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
* y  s7 V: l$ r; J. L# @- p- Scott Adams

2 k/ b. n" Y$ n+ c* r2 T* iIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
- Anonymous

If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
/ \2 ]' f: C' c- Bradley's Bromide

The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
# a7 D: |+ W/ N+ b: ~& J" J: e- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric

At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
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( j. u2 f3 m6 ]. e' D! ]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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+ b0 ^; s) L3 [" GOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
9 k  r9 U) A; u! C8 m! |" \- Elbert Hubbard
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& R& k5 E; O- K- ~# ^Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
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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

/ O1 N9 w+ W, {$ GSave early, save often.
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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1 N% Y  ~$ y9 A1 i- V' tBuild early and build often.
8 m4 Y5 R0 b& V- Proprietary developer adage
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) F1 h! g+ c7 c0 I7 v0 eRelease early and release often.
8 m3 q2 N- J3 \1 @- Open source developer adage
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! g- X0 J% v7 j+ z( fWe 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 y0 h2 E3 h3 w2 ?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.
5 v& B  H( G  f. i& p7 H8 q7 H- Anonymous
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5 @$ m& D9 K! B( t  n5 ZThere 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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3 \. }" S* `: l0 m: B4 h: i; K& h& FThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
- Jerry Olson
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& D2 P9 h. G: m" Z  b; IThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.
- Porterfield

1 r# f# c( s& K2 ?& H' yEverything 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
$ N5 R+ C% c& r- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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1 i  ?5 Y5 D7 ^* q7 n* ~1 F1 QAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
! X+ d( o6 @3 I* v$ Q( H4 `+ u5 R) @- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
6 g; t5 @) `1 O2 z6 L2 _+ ^- Gregory Benford

Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
- Anonymous

% y& }& V& U, E/ ~/ a6 S& j' H1 Y% PA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
3 v& o7 [2 S: u. r/ ]2 `. T; x- Y- Alan J. Perlis

6 L+ K' z# J, H  _+ X* kI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
3 g) L5 I* x7 b- e- Thomas Edison

Get your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
+ h7 g7 ~: ]& }+ I4 N) ?$ l" v- 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.
/ t$ g' B; B1 C# V0 @  s- Senator Bob Dole
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" f& k1 ~4 {5 y8 L5 D2 UComputers 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

Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
0 b* P  s8 o* `* {/ A& M- Andrew Heller, IBM
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& h7 O5 x, r- c6 X4 P" tAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos

How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
- Al Gore on Y2K

" m, A% A  H+ b/ y! lThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
$ }7 Z: T8 n" c8 k6 d* y  P* k- Sydney Brenner in 1927

& @6 v2 \: F4 v2 d  xThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
  _/ a! J+ _8 ?5 I$ X* A& _( Z- Linus Torvalds

. b% J% H3 b$ R5 |# q% [% `7 jTo 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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6 }! M' k) r( \Windows is just DOS in drag.
- Anonymous
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; v0 F' y) e) z! Y: z: s, S8 fThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
3 ?* B, y+ w$ O% V; R+ z4 g3 I% 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.
* J" G4 C/ u1 J- B5 q, |- Thomas Edison

3 ~# V0 m! g* e& a: O8 gEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D