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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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
( S7 N" v/ n/ S8 N6 I( ~! q- T.S. Elliot

640K ought to be enough for anybody.
9 R8 }7 J) ^- w- o0 g1 `' Q2 L- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- k4 ^, M, V# U0 l5 }- B. F. Skinner

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.
- 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

! @7 Y; z" i  }  D1 ~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.
- o* T( W; [3 U- [9 v- Andy Rooney

. W, |# M1 a$ F9 \8 k& `" `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.
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943

+ E# X" F' L4 H: D6 UIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
- Scott Adams

8 z! |* M& o7 c2 d5 y! |$ XIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
0 l! R9 T0 J9 e' `- 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.
; H0 D" ?2 Y% w  y) ?2 |2 E- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric

) N4 ~! h# P4 b! R, i1 c* iAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
- Anonymous
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3 s7 w( f  ^0 Z. [5 `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.
8 o$ {+ V3 ^  k- Elbert Hubbard

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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  ^, _& w' J- Q. @! }7 CSave early, save often.
9 z+ r% E, R% ?0 V0 @6 y9 v, E' @) e) M( u- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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6 R0 |0 {! C" F; wBuild early and build often.
2 M3 g$ F! A5 j$ f- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often.
. |' P! l" y, h' ^" R- x2 ]3 L- Open source developer adage

* x: A- ~( ^, @! @We 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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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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There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
8 F+ `( j) M! E- Margaret Thatcher
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# H+ \7 b0 z$ G- N" t# K/ eThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
- Jerry Olson
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& D- ]3 c- p/ }* zThe 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

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3 ^/ D# B0 {, E7 E6 v5 D- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969

' U! E3 P) k/ DAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
0 i! T! A' o& k6 }+ O' K2 m/ m- Arthur C. Clarke

1 o) S, f/ K5 g% i5 j) F4 MAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
- Gregory Benford

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

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
- Alan J. Perlis

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison
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' Q" x; F" w: r7 yGet 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.
2 M* A# B/ O8 R# o+ P. G- 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

: S" d# b. K% j" d" Z) B 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.
1 j7 x0 v0 C% E( ?- l4 }& i% ?4 s3 V+ `! G) F- 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?
- Al Gore on Y2K
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
+ _( }: D: U7 @* F4 d6 h8 b- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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1 ]+ P7 ~( A5 N" z) c7 a* Y. ]The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
$ ]$ N+ T! S' I1 g2 K9 z/ J- 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.
# `1 W. W* Z8 ~+ u& G; L0 c9 `( }- Linus Torvalds
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6 o2 k3 a6 v$ I: 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

connie

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
9 _: t8 @9 A. _1 g1 w3 c- Thomas Edison

- a2 f* o0 E5 S* c; pEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D