Fun Quotations

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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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7 i6 m4 I( Y0 [' s. d# X  gWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
% ~8 ^2 }) b# {, Y$ c; L- T.S. Elliot

640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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; b$ D( u/ r7 E" [The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
" p2 p% H, i/ L3 O- B. F. Skinner

7 F; v& a/ W9 J$ ]3 b- IThere 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.
1 U# h4 t  ?7 ~6 O% W. S% r! h- George Pompidou
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/ Q# S  }1 g- A" L* q9 E8 nTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
% m1 `" j6 ^; y; n5 k( T4 W# u- 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.
- 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.
# a7 c, v# v& a# B5 g5 c- Andy Rooney

% A  S* p) t/ k2 o3 u6 h1 kIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
1 Y+ V# d7 p% A# B/ l- Richard Power
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8 I7 |3 V7 G3 n6 [) yI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
- Scott Adams

. C4 S6 S6 n) }& B5 B7 ]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

& T0 n. b: a- S0 ~; f" mIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
- Bradley's Bromide
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  F' X6 r( k* U  m, CThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric

1 _( x. D* j$ d9 YAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
- Anonymous

* y& S" a7 n# CThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
, t% a$ I+ v' ?" B+ Y6 ^& ]! K- Jeremy S. Anderson

) E2 f* |$ G9 N# IOne 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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- R) ]- x- I; v( x! P2 jAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
- 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.
) t% e: W6 o# d- Anonymous
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Save early, save often.
# ^* L  s" h, Z# H. D- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word

Build early and build often.
1 S, s" ?0 k7 h! Z0 a- Proprietary developer adage

2 k  t# ]" a% \/ eRelease early and release often.
- Open source developer adage

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
& ~) d4 w1 V. G$ a: H1 o' N9 L! t1 t- Carl Sagan

5 S/ l. t* c( bIf 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.
3 z4 v+ `2 x0 O  O- 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.
+ T: D' Z1 V6 D- Margaret Thatcher
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8 k4 ~# H+ k( ?+ D$ oThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
& n; k) ]* B* R3 S0 h$ e$ o- H- Jerry Olson

3 E3 l$ R- }2 |! \" M% tThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.
$ k5 n; u& A8 B! t, @- Porterfield
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

- U0 H  S8 I3 s; X% t: SGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969

" K/ e, k) X2 g+ FAny 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.
- Gregory Benford
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
- Anonymous
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
- Alan J. Perlis

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
3 B% A: c/ u# q/ c8 `% o- O/ Z; h- 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.
- 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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7 y9 ?" ]1 V% x( O  N# e2 U9 x) tThe 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.
, w& s; y+ r+ j# X0 v8 s- 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
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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

. J& ?+ W, d- _! X& [$ F1 a  fHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
% P3 V) [3 Q0 _$ V9 K% p' b/ a' y; A- Al Gore on Y2K

& `% c9 Y% n2 J; _The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
- Sydney Brenner in 1927

, {. B6 v2 X. u; r3 NThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
- Linus Torvalds

. m4 M; p) w) ]  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.
) I1 y$ X8 L5 J+ h4 c- Linus Torvalds

Windows is just DOS in drag.
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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

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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison

& p9 Y8 }( k$ B; b% b. IEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D