Fun Quotations

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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
7 C2 p" r8 v) B- Andrew S. Tannenbaum

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
; @1 r7 T0 `8 F$ F- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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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
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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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% B0 T, t+ x; |2 _+ u1 vFor 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.
- Andy Rooney
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
- Richard Power

% o  ?, E3 U) P' G4 R) [$ dI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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. O7 k2 I, u) e5 `' B& Y: F; rIf 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.
- Anonymous

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- Bradley's Bromide

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

At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
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) k  ~) p. n5 a6 E6 P' G9 k- c) gThere 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.
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2 Z5 _4 w  _0 z0 m+ M0 a4 y  KAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
- David Thornburg

. K' B. L* j* Z4 C: s9 q0 L% Q! ]/ AThose 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

Build early and build often.
- Proprietary developer adage

& ]- v1 ^6 o3 o' m1 @% x5 gRelease early and release often.
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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.
  E- O3 M9 p! v) O: ]8 O- Carl Sagan
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+ j+ ~! D) [) m8 L) Q! K9 @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

The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
- Jerry Olson
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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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$ ^7 S" Z, Y# e7 H0 T# \( DEverything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
' S: ]) l8 X. I! M- Y- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969

  i- \# ~+ y, Y0 M; h# x- M& ]) AAny 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
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/ ?3 s! d+ s9 ^) x; GNever 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

5 \$ @" h- U4 c6 l7 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.
$ l% Y8 c9 S1 G5 M1 A9 m- 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

& t. n* p2 Q) L! R( uThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
- Senator Bob Dole
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
- Popular Mechanics, 1949

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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) m) E2 A/ P  q6 W' [- `Technology 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.
; C1 W5 J4 z. Q5 j1 i) g. \& l- 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

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
9 X4 d) F6 Y& g8 g- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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( ^) w8 z& t$ U8 ]( ?* q: fThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
/ f0 Y: }6 |. i' D- N- Linus Torvalds
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5 B. R# A' l9 L$ C% sTo 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.
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Windows is just DOS in drag.
- Anonymous
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6 r2 S7 \1 B5 U! UThere 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.
- Thomas Edison
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! r) i; g) t4 t' DEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D