Fun Quotations

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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
& v; O. E$ U# `3 L: ^- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
- T.S. Elliot

9 [7 F) R. }- R% B2 ~640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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  m) N4 Q. l1 j, \. fThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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8 U( o; l; |' X# r8 E0 r: yThere 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

2 M2 c& O: b1 N: Q; J; c0 h5 QTechnology 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.
; A+ K5 R. _' _$ w- 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

In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
- Richard Power

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943

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.
- Anonymous

If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
- Bradley's Bromide
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3 n8 _. ^" }' S- t6 C# TThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
+ ~" m+ M# x, P; m- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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* V1 W7 v3 l, x2 y5 @) oAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
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5 n; Z2 _& Q& b$ g4 C0 EThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
* S/ L: ~! w" n+ u7 B) }/ J- Jeremy S. Anderson
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+ @0 E% X( O7 P( vOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
  G- }1 ^! d) g- Elbert Hubbard

* V5 A, h. j% ~! s0 G9 \Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
4 u3 r/ B# H# U2 E* r- u- David Thornburg

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.
6 z# G' N; p3 j  e6 z  d- Anonymous
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5 X( W2 a0 U0 S: cSave early, save often.
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often.
- C3 X0 }3 X9 u1 }, Y. F- Proprietary developer adage

Release early and release often.
# t5 q8 b, M. ?0 D6 Y: {& w$ s- 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.
- Carl Sagan
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9 v! l- u/ f5 IIf 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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9 U0 ^& @6 s' X9 x1 b3 b& ~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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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
- Jerry Olson

0 w5 ~2 w( }4 N* m. g3 y6 VThe 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.
8 M. X* o; `/ ^- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
/ [8 E0 a3 E  ~' B- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969

5 r% D  S: C: E+ d8 VAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
5 A1 |* ?2 F$ h5 z5 P% b, v" Q9 m- Arthur C. Clarke

1 \9 X9 y" f' R8 M0 o0 p5 XAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
- Gregory Benford

( f* Q4 Z! s$ sNever 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.
- Alan J. Perlis
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9 [/ P3 ~4 B* l  j( LI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
2 s) O% }, [$ A- Thomas Edison
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  i: U9 y# X6 qGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
) F2 G/ G, e! c0 Q' s# ]( \- 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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: I  h  Z# r$ r" H; fThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
% x9 ?! T2 M2 V* {$ B. O/ Y- Popular Mechanics, 1949

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
) u0 {6 \) H& D- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy

, T- p  \$ i' vTechnology 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

% |7 z% I+ z0 o; \+ \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.
- 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.
' M3 h4 H# c; h8 M  F3 T7 L6 u3 b- 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.
; X8 B8 d6 S3 @& q7 Y- Linus Torvalds

Windows is just DOS in drag.
- Anonymous
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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.
, s, B; D8 N& K4 u  d+ Z( u- Thomas Edison
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' h: K& P, h+ @0 S+ |% gEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D