Fun Quotations

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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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: B7 F" e, i( t! Y; Z2 ~, VWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
. E; d: G1 m' m3 s* F- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
) X0 q6 e" F1 Y3 W5 D6 {2 K7 t- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
% Y- Q6 i0 W, m$ w- B. F. Skinner

4 x7 y1 x6 m! s/ d, c( |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 K; o$ @1 i2 Q: R+ D. O- George Pompidou
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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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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.
- Andy Rooney
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
- Richard Power

; T' \$ k0 g6 [I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943

* c3 T# J# n# s9 C9 X1 j; rIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
1 M5 z8 _, @0 q+ ?7 b! o: `  ^7 @" H- Scott Adams
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2 a- @- s& G8 \+ M! j( E  D/ S7 rIn 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

The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
: I7 p. h: ]& E  @- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric

( H, r& q$ e8 A  N% \" c4 {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.
, W# B5 F( ~( l8 G# U- Jeremy S. Anderson

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
- David Thornburg
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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.
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- z# Q" z1 s3 ]Save early, save often.
/ }$ q( b# o& e1 L9 l4 E/ X- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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' k9 g, T) G: M3 y3 K3 \$ gBuild early and build often.
- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often.
1 R/ W* B$ [5 ^% I( w& p- Open source developer adage
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6 \: t' _9 F2 J5 XWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
: I' G/ Z0 z3 H$ `- Carl Sagan
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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
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" o' Q- t4 f' P, VThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
7 a! L# E, C; W- Margaret Thatcher

1 z; H4 n: r8 C$ D9 sThe 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.
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2 B  {- _" M$ PEverything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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( o$ \$ s; X2 j' M+ iGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
8 p! {7 ~1 @: N1 o# Q$ e- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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' K* ]; Q2 f: jAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
- Gregory Benford

8 p6 p/ f" R* t2 J9 xNever 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
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% y; p8 [; H0 {+ `5 FI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
9 I9 P( g9 K7 h- Thomas Edison

Get your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
1 B3 V! R9 |. w* g' ~- 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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; z  S2 J8 e) \- g+ W+ H) k- ^The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
- Senator Bob Dole
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Computers 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.
) L+ d1 h$ @+ o( E: _# }. z1 D- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy

+ d( r  O/ Z9 h7 f+ }Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
- 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
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How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
: x" [3 j) I7 n" s4 i4 [- Al Gore on Y2K
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
- m3 o" s& M& r% E  e$ Z- Sydney Brenner in 1927

+ \& z( R; O, X4 y+ xThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
- Linus Torvalds
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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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: l9 \7 n' k1 F8 U* r, `Windows is just DOS in drag.
- Anonymous

! \7 K8 \  B; h4 SThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
) I, y$ Y  @: ^7 Z' _* A$ y' ?- 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.
7 {- p5 |5 J& V( z& Q# O2 w" y7 T8 j- Thomas Edison

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