Fun Quotations

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

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
- T.S. Elliot

; n3 q! l7 q; @& `640K ought to be enough for anybody.
1 q2 a  O& x' Z: S6 p- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981

1 i, s" Z9 z6 N2 IThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
, p4 g5 P/ q6 [, a. h: u- 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.
) |4 G, H3 r/ Z- C3 ]- George Pompidou
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: ?, J; W. n$ 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
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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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/ u% F9 v& I3 K  ~8 ^! a0 fComputers 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.
! I# U: Y/ s1 G. D' \* w7 R- Andy Rooney
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' z) W  j0 I7 R# u$ P+ vIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
) N- r# z/ g4 P) H& A- Richard Power

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

! O" Z- k% D9 x0 r8 Z% d; h  _' ^If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
- Scott Adams
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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.
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% u6 B- Z& t* `* wIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
- O; ^3 E: A( `" \7 z" W+ W- Bradley's Bromide
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
4 q. q% L' b3 }. p, v- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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At 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.
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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

6 n5 L- V( [7 z8 ~Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
- David Thornburg
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+ ?. G5 k6 G. D& iThose 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

. {& ~' X9 g( y0 U) hSave early, save often.
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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! z1 E9 X. G0 i' \Build early and build often.
- Proprietary developer adage

* e2 P4 e. }! a9 f6 o, W; Q5 ARelease early and release often.
( c7 t6 A+ f1 k# Z# [1 ^' ^% ?) p- Open source developer adage

: J* w. [# g# _2 M2 v, VWe 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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3 z. v/ Y; j; j1 dIf 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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5 Z8 _+ Q' w7 }: J8 {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

6 }3 e- h, W8 IThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
* ?/ i$ b9 E" N. t3 N+ _& Q2 G- Jerry Olson
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; T9 H9 [( ?- R% T) G5 L) P6 k9 cThe 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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7 R) O% F; s# nEverything that can be invented has been invented.
/ C, N7 P( U( K1 W- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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2 d9 ~" H7 Q) I7 V3 G3 dGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
2 |9 e2 ?& \) U- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969

Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke
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3 W8 S$ R9 e( s1 {- [+ LAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
5 K9 O# U) h( ^; y' z- 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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I 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.
4 n$ L7 I8 C$ A! E- 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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; G9 s. \$ T. j; `8 kThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
: g7 @6 `3 u; t- Senator Bob Dole

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.
. }/ h7 b8 ^1 _) F/ s7 }; r1 r  y- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
- Andrew Heller, IBM

AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos

1 i: q1 ]1 T& z$ q2 D3 QHow 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.
# t! c* o- {- ^; v2 H5 X" G- Sydney Brenner in 1927

The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
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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.
6 V. M+ R$ R8 e% k! p- Linus Torvalds

8 v+ W% z) j) L# I! {Windows is just DOS in drag.
5 d8 w0 o% w0 `2 u6 w3 a- Anonymous
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# i1 X6 ]+ c  u5 \5 GThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
. r9 @* f7 O$ |3 N# U4 u- 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

5 d4 |. M* j! {  ?: TEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D