Fun Quotations

OliveOil

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum

7 i; b) H( d4 eWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
0 v# |% F/ d% N5 K+ i1 q- T.S. Elliot
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5 Y+ b$ G0 h/ C) O" c4 ?9 X640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
& N/ a/ ]/ Y( K% q- B. F. Skinner
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3 b9 ~2 k' B7 ^0 X+ S8 V% t. N+ x6 dThere 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
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# z6 V- w) d' Y# X: T# Z: eTechnology 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.
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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.
- Andy Rooney

In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
6 ^: ~2 C9 p1 V/ K& p9 \- ~- Richard Power

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
4 P( K5 h& j* Y/ k* f) \- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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( @+ w8 w1 |0 O) ~/ i' iIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
- Scott Adams
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/ n+ {/ V: q- \3 Y7 t2 g, NIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
; v/ s: G4 u1 }, C  z% ^" n- Anonymous

If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
# |1 z& k8 i+ B- U; T* R+ t- p- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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( D, `) T3 `0 L+ U5 C$ @, aAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
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8 s& k8 x! \) i) BThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
6 l4 t3 x- W0 V- Jeremy S. Anderson

! t( [1 B' z4 X) UOne 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.
  c! i* Z+ x" J% o! s; _- David Thornburg
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; t5 |6 |" Q- t% f+ ^& KThose 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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Save early, save often.
7 x: J" r8 t% j, K- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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; U9 y5 Y# ]6 r9 E+ qBuild early and build often.
- Proprietary developer adage

Release early and release often.
/ r4 J' j  }. c4 L6 P- Q- Open source developer adage

9 _6 G7 i# J/ p1 wWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
- 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.
8 h9 k! x/ }4 V& @' g% f+ @3 w- 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
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2 ~# W: D6 E2 u. {The 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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: W" g7 m1 E# I* bEverything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
. ?( @  W  q  w# t# X, l$ h  `% J- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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* \; e# M- e! H7 s- i/ @Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke

1 s, A9 Q  A3 S5 l9 T$ D9 l& NAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
- Gregory Benford

. k; `# L- v+ c2 [8 y8 p" n3 U: Z' @Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
- Anonymous
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5 h$ ~8 R0 ]% T; Z; ?! T5 hA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
8 K* Y+ T; L6 ^9 S* w- Alan J. Perlis

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
  Y+ p7 k: f$ K8 [) y6 [- Q' q- Thomas Edison
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6 j( W& R' ~9 `+ qGet 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

% P9 I5 Q& {1 g! J, w) MThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
5 r3 I, \; f2 H% _- 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
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
) {: y) v1 l& g5 }( g- 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

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?
- Al Gore on Y2K

8 A) g) k0 q5 p+ `0 m& H/ XThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
- `4 ^/ r1 j! O* z- Sydney Brenner in 1927

The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
2 U* O- |* H6 V+ j! h1 R- 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
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& C: B$ a+ X5 L% VWindows is just DOS in drag.
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There 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.
1 K/ m) d5 N5 x4 b) _- Thomas Edison
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Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D