Fun Quotations

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

- N! h, [5 h& S- O; cWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
9 C0 w2 s) B$ g- T.S. Elliot

0 v# c, W$ j1 s% [+ a0 C640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- B. F. Skinner

4 _, w& h% ]2 X0 Z+ c: j7 k$ G" iThere 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

: Q$ B) i5 m0 H3 |5 w! 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 N( z! o' |3 ~) I1 }- 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.
# _/ I2 S. v- L* s+ H+ |' W- Anonymous
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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
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, a* d  I# d) z  r7 Y% u" KIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
- Richard Power

9 K$ d, v# {/ Q; C/ DI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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3 A% B% u8 x6 D5 ^If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
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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.
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
- Bradley's Bromide
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: a" i$ ~4 a$ S5 f6 {. GThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric

5 [/ ^2 r0 b. C/ E, m8 XAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
- Anonymous
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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

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
: Z" `3 k5 Z3 P/ K$ {' K- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
- David Thornburg
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' ~! m+ f! ]+ u6 N  hThose 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.
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word

6 O. a# {  v; K7 k; p2 M* h+ x( hBuild early and build often.
/ S4 q0 E0 r3 I, Y8 }, I8 J- Proprietary developer adage

Release early and release often.
) M% v. _; @3 q/ |+ K) W/ t- Open source developer adage

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
$ [# F2 z( \; J# W  c) U% W) |/ ^- 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.
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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.
- Margaret Thatcher

' r, d) z8 ^  B6 ?+ S/ ?7 }The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
$ ^! J/ ^: l% V3 j/ h! G! M* c4 W- Jerry Olson

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
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8 A1 @  S/ u! C5 E9 {1 ]% C& \Everything 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
4 O6 m, Q) i+ h" r0 p* d- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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/ j* T+ J  \2 {* t* G5 }Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
* d# k- c0 r2 _* M* T2 U* m: k6 _- Arthur C. Clarke

/ v6 f; `' Y% oAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
- Gregory Benford

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.
, x. B. v1 N* R! T. z- Alan J. Perlis

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- e% _% e  V! P, ^7 E* m8 U- Thomas Edison

2 M. T; j2 n8 l; |Get your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
" X; ?7 S, G+ M) W7 i# f0 \4 \! _- 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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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
- Senator Bob Dole

1 ^4 e) m* o5 rComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
9 _- i* L7 F- u- Popular Mechanics, 1949

* D( {6 Q$ h) l- U" F0 v$ } From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
4 x, |4 i+ {4 h% 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.
# x  Y, R% [/ W, l: k- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
* i8 A+ v$ E' a- }( u- e- 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
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% q6 U+ T' X  I, S8 Z$ B( q9 iThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
- Sydney Brenner in 1927

8 X2 J1 l4 [* t' ]# r$ ^The 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.
' X9 m; g, @( y9 t- b0 \0 P- Linus Torvalds

( {8 b$ }# W2 X! \% s  H, sWindows 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

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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
( K: R  I% j) n& s2 `6 g- Thomas Edison
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. Q- l; e8 M0 f2 ~9 rEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D