Fun Quotations

OliveOil

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
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+ Y. V7 ?  ]8 F# ^Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
- T.S. Elliot
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1 S! W2 X0 }7 a- Q( T4 \640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
' q) o" R: e' e' j6 V- a- B. F. Skinner
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- E2 g+ v' ~# e5 @5 m. XThere 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
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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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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.
: m( u2 C; y2 w& b- Andy Rooney
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- g! r* \6 G7 N- Y' q0 iIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
+ d; g; I; c0 w  p- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
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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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) {5 x% B6 n" l. z. BIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
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) @! e  Z) m5 h9 I" qThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric

; ^3 p3 O" o& _/ c, m3 _1 ~At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
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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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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard

Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
! O- _# Y. m: ]9 E' V/ _+ g- David Thornburg
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) Q2 u1 F$ P4 [6 ZThose 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.
- Anonymous
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Save early, save often.
, y; I! e1 h7 R# g- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often.
- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often.
- Open source developer adage
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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4 [1 U: V# ]4 S0 {& u2 {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.
, n0 n$ k7 k  d- B0 T% h. D- 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.
. j/ L0 n: x: r' v! _* ]/ M1 F- Margaret Thatcher
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
7 B: c7 ]6 m2 P! \. m+ n5 |' T- Jerry Olson
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; A2 B/ K- u/ w" r. G" \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

Everything that can be invented has been invented.
% V+ s1 Q0 y( c+ t& D( V5 R7 i& C8 X- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969

6 u- H0 J2 n# T; OAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke
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8 H9 A$ C) R+ s0 J! \- |$ AAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
- Gregory Benford
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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# W5 m. V, X7 d2 i$ M+ MA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
- Alan J. Perlis

' |! X% Q1 j6 DI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison
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/ u2 K% ]' Z5 G6 h- X. w, e) vGet 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
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
- Senator Bob Dole

4 v# _9 Z+ [4 YComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
- Popular Mechanics, 1949

+ ?- r  N* z2 [: ~) N; w7 R4 f! } From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
; J. o2 O- b/ l0 O- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy

. B6 ?  I4 |9 S" p+ QTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
- Andrew Heller, IBM

- Y3 \; f* [, U+ B. \5 fAOL 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?
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) c8 y! x- n4 ?  D7 B( N' HThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
- Sydney Brenner in 1927

% w, j) n' N5 s$ oThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
2 a* M! \/ z2 {6 r) t8 U- Linus Torvalds
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! F' Y' c; K& R; tTo 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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Windows is just DOS in drag.
- Anonymous

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.
- Thomas Edison
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Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D