Fun Quotations

OliveOil

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
5 X' p- |' J! r- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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3 d! R" d! Y# e3 r! q  bWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
- T.S. Elliot

. g7 d4 z, ]/ p) D" |, S8 V% ?640K ought to be enough for anybody.
0 N5 a% L5 k( p$ I( Q' _8 w- 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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) P/ x7 i1 ^% e. r& lTechnology 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

- G2 \# {5 A5 w8 F) v6 y! QFor 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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# O/ n; R/ H% i$ QComputers 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.
7 g4 D. l. E3 Z. t1 ~- Richard Power

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
* b' [1 ^6 w! R! K9 Y+ L- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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6 o( @1 ^+ @* J4 v7 G5 [' {. WIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
- Scott Adams

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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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
- Bradley's Bromide

9 A; Y9 g; _7 C1 o/ T& n# tThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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+ Q' \2 |6 @% b/ J  P/ T0 ~At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
- Anonymous
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% z2 ]( m# X6 eThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
  P# }+ b/ F$ @- G; [) g- 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.
% e  t/ M% ^4 T; Q0 B- Elbert Hubbard
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! j, A7 V: Z, C0 m2 y2 OAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
9 [7 R. p( n; d4 R9 o. l& f( W- David Thornburg

% M6 Z3 O. f2 K3 e. fThose 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

: H" U  D- H7 k* H" @Save early, save often.
0 e% o5 T( N1 P% [8 `) c5 k- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word

/ Q( u0 o$ o% K  Y- a* ^+ n% KBuild early and build often.
0 F$ |- W! {1 [5 ^# B- Proprietary developer adage
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. \/ h' r' l1 j6 H, [8 }) rRelease 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.
- Carl Sagan
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" M- Z, U) g  jIf 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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/ S& |3 R5 {1 NThere 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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2 r! _3 S. S) yThe 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.
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/ c/ N2 I+ r. F3 T8 i( @7 B9 c) pEverything that can be invented has been invented.
' D* f; U( m  c- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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6 g$ g- T1 ^% h% N5 ?GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
- i, n# R% O7 c9 Q; W' z- Arthur C. Clarke

7 K4 p" r! h' x& N- kAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
1 l' V: Z. I/ b* m2 Y' R( q2 T- Gregory Benford
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+ p' Z8 P& |% W! @9 e. CNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.
- Anonymous

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
* j/ v) r: P4 v- Alan J. Perlis

% ?- d; {/ M; x2 X- b4 C: WI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
: \1 p7 l6 w  {; @* G- 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.
4 n* e/ z  q& b7 |- 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.
* i/ z0 d6 ]1 Y  h& D6 i, g& ^" y- Senator Bob Dole

. W+ E$ A* h- i0 }, _* f! d  U; cComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
0 B2 I" e  Q' q5 g- 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.
+ l1 D2 B- p. X  F+ |. d9 `- Y- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
+ _5 d: d& a& _$ V& [7 b- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos

* D! I8 v% E" G( S. N/ q& J  }' m' AHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
% `) G; I1 m/ E, d) ~7 y1 g- Al Gore on Y2K
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
8 S$ ?5 r0 Q& R; K" C) O- a3 O- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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" E% q2 ?+ t* ?The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
- Linus Torvalds

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.
2 R6 y7 T" R1 n$ N  i2 x- Linus Torvalds
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0 [6 ^+ {% W2 UWindows is just DOS in drag.
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
9 ^9 q" X, u$ i% ^  H+ U- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977

connie

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison
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% h8 _# ~6 t, O& c& u) zEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D