Fun Quotations

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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
1 Q/ z0 S5 w3 o" b: a" f' ]- Andrew S. Tannenbaum

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
! s; C/ l& X/ H$ W- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- B. F. Skinner
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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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& K( J% I* E% r$ c$ s' ZTechnology 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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, r4 V: W! O. a7 k* }8 d$ x9 z# pFor 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
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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.
* g& d) I* F  G- Andy Rooney

6 K* y: R1 x1 K* Q* }7 C/ TIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
- Richard Power
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, D8 k3 y. ]" l; W3 C' _9 RI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
  `. N' J, `5 z: B0 K7 Q4 o5 [- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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If 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

If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
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( r) y4 {( l$ d" U  F8 `- L$ CThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
! ]0 e& }2 c; R- _) X9 A8 Q- I& |* l- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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) `7 E; k! b2 R9 r5 XAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
- Anonymous

There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
. x$ s4 U2 q4 u3 O- 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
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) {- c  {. p2 n6 v3 s8 mAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
; O) y" c, h; ^3 J3 X- 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.
- Anonymous
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3 a* f( C/ S0 a- l2 rSave early, save often.
. f6 i% _' a3 A4 z' E8 u- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often.
! b( ^3 B7 U1 C2 z( A" G8 \# S1 P- Proprietary developer adage

9 n3 x2 u$ `$ [3 e5 E" j/ K& w$ ?! x; |Release early and release often.
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3 c: ~/ l  @5 F, e  cWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
8 ~: g: G9 J; m/ N: t! k3 n- Carl Sagan
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+ X8 W* @$ B( N. Q1 _% ?9 i  \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.
/ k7 F/ j& y/ D$ |- Anonymous

- r0 h1 S, j! L- Z3 NThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
' b& e$ Y0 d, S8 m- Margaret Thatcher
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
- Jerry Olson
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- w$ D8 ~; I/ Q0 |The 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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& t; K/ {0 i1 O/ J* H4 BEverything that can be invented has been invented.
4 L7 j* {2 R2 q4 d2 T5 ^- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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* X4 W5 _+ K: P0 z9 QGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
  j8 F, C0 ?7 |& u- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969

/ J- \6 ^+ H$ J9 uAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
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+ P) R; E; Q+ Z2 z+ f7 ENever let a computer know you're in a hurry.
- Anonymous
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$ F/ `: P- S1 x( eA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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7 r; U3 K! N; y+ _# o) ?! `I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison
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Get your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
& n; Y/ y$ \* @" Z- 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.
- `2 b) i4 K7 I% ]5 h- 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.
: x/ ^: f7 K. D! x- Popular Mechanics, 1949

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
9 _. E6 C! Y6 W1 I' e; W$ i- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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4 s+ X& U8 P/ Q9 j7 y" WTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
8 b4 L- G) W: A6 a5 Z7 k+ @- 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

5 ]& c1 {0 e5 cHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
8 z' [+ [  o; Z& |5 B9 o- Al Gore on Y2K

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
1 f' y. P& n0 n& \& C- 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.
! K" k0 I8 B7 a( ?- Linus Torvalds

' [- o$ S0 W+ b7 T6 K) aTo 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.
4 j7 r4 r- q! u4 f" J9 j- Linus Torvalds

Windows is just DOS in drag.
- Anonymous

' `" Y( u7 p/ G) m7 P8 qThere 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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: D# S( Z; o9 g0 G' J3 x( TEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D