Fun Quotations

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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum

' m% r. f7 i8 D% H' |8 i+ KWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
- T.S. Elliot

640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981

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.
# k" q1 C# J/ Q  I- }- George Pompidou
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, ]8 Z9 b- L2 g# oTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
* S, V8 b" v4 }. ?. \, D- Anonymous
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0 v% F+ S  f# n! g/ hFor 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.
& F) y% e) x6 u9 D- Andy Rooney

In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
# K2 d3 Y- }$ x  v- Richard Power
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7 \) [) G0 \. a4 I; mI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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8 m" c/ E; w& D: GIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
. [/ [. e- x/ y2 }  O- Scott Adams
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2 ~8 M, Y3 ]+ c; Q% H+ {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

! P$ C7 l6 {6 L% n" j) T/ l2 k$ aIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
) @% p4 X9 S7 I( [- Bradley's Bromide
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7 ~7 t) o; y0 y- P/ ~. ]& vThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
1 K! S2 `" Q) ]: T- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric

At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
1 @. g' U2 V% W  t: \( M9 n3 J- Anonymous
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$ Q& _: K- x" e+ U* z# L& CThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
- Jeremy S. Anderson

( Z* b+ E' k& |4 E0 v! LOne 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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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
0 q5 W% t; p5 `- a- 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.
- Anonymous
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Save early, save often.
+ v6 k4 i2 p# H6 Y- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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5 f  C- D* S' SBuild early and build often.
- Proprietary developer adage

7 c6 H& v: x. Q/ M* ?" I, URelease early and release often.
- Open source developer adage
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/ R0 C  S" Q. w) H5 s6 \9 G# ?; OWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
- Carl Sagan

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.
- 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.
- Margaret Thatcher
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! e$ \. T8 X, hThe 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

6 J* g* L4 }2 n0 I$ lEverything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
, C1 \. ~) i6 P/ ^- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969

( Y( h3 X  I- |- U; t, p- qAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
) R& b  \4 R4 J" ?2 E9 ^: a- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
; a1 M7 l' t& M1 S& @6 O4 Q: H) I- Gregory Benford
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Never 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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% M: s0 `2 X% i; `$ xI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
; s/ N% v; w" d- Thomas Edison

8 J+ u2 s/ T7 Y2 s. S- U7 r6 O' UGet 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
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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
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, j. ?8 A. A) E From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy

' W4 {+ y6 T+ G" tTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
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! Z& \' M+ `9 n6 z, ?) uAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
- 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

4 F0 E1 I; u1 a4 UThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
& u- x$ A  @, l2 o' O- Sydney Brenner in 1927

& j! m9 V. @: w9 XThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
# _' w& C3 X+ L* ~- n  D- Linus Torvalds
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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.
- Linus Torvalds
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4 o) E3 D6 l0 l3 _. u0 Y7 g) jWindows is just DOS in drag.
- Anonymous
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3 P0 t4 ]0 q' ~! ?1 oThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
- H6 I' G# t& v* z3 Y$ k8 o- 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

# k, F! O7 Z) f. xEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D