Fun Quotations

OliveOil

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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3 V  L* F6 X$ x) W/ T0 {) N  {$ K6 ^' |/ qWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
- T.S. Elliot

640K ought to be enough for anybody.
' |* w$ A$ z1 \3 r' f# `- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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. Y* e* q3 e! q3 k( BThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- 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.
5 H+ c) D- A6 i% X- 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.
- Anonymous
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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.
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$ Y- x6 ~+ o* N9 r0 TComputers 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.
# H  @5 \7 o: D. I- Andy Rooney
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. b  `! d7 A( G+ VIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
- Richard Power
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/ l$ H( V. [: f, m3 B6 S; t8 LI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
8 H. R7 k$ C- [, M5 Z6 H- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943

' D, \/ f+ p9 V& k: T% d) y* A/ ^If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
- Scott Adams

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.
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric

# X5 ?" F6 S- C+ n* x. }! aAt 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
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8 B+ ~5 w4 i# O  eOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
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  y* j4 b, S# J. _1 xAny 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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* ]. K# ~0 o7 G# CSave early, save often.
  B% [' [- F/ M) d/ R3 k! C; R4 q/ `- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word

7 E6 |* ?, Q) b; {' {% QBuild early and build often.
! Z: v! a4 Y; f4 `# `- Proprietary developer adage

Release early and release often.
- 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.
5 d* d8 u5 J$ A0 |" M- Carl Sagan
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8 g6 F: \1 m, OIf 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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; x7 O' C# ^% \2 e$ IThere 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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. `+ N9 R" N4 M/ `  }( SThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
5 |* g" r" \% E- 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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  C( D: m1 \; S/ n; K( i6 cEverything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

' b1 C% [% G. Z+ x. K( x, J9 R1 ^  cGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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' U6 J8 Q; W0 \/ M6 l- b1 c* `Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke

Any 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.
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0 V5 r' ~$ k6 C! D+ V; GI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison

Get your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
' J8 A3 F. `# c$ a5 M8 C5 z7 S7 B- 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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9 L7 t9 Y. n2 r* ?% {+ vThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
- Senator Bob Dole

Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
3 ?% f  X8 c/ |* B% S" h- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
/ N  f5 ^3 P0 u8 k- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy

& D. B. k* n3 N9 wTechnology 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.
" J7 {9 a* S" h/ e- 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
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4 R$ k# H, D" g: }1 F' A+ d0 WThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
+ g! g% A! L# [, d; A; |- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
- a6 T" a/ G9 V8 q0 W+ d- U- Linus Torvalds

( \: p% j4 ?- E, Q# VTo 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.
, M) T* `+ ?( h% v- Linus Torvalds
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Windows is just DOS in drag.
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9 C. b$ v+ I5 GThere 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.
& H7 _, N% ]. E/ a& y3 _1 G" H: x- Thomas Edison
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  ], _# n: t5 y" a; sEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D