Fun Quotations

OliveOil

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
' w' q: m7 d; T& V& [7 S$ n0 y, I- Andrew S. Tannenbaum

9 ?9 T4 u& ^4 b  e0 nWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
7 T4 X2 y5 M6 H, k- T.S. Elliot
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$ K: ~' Z6 X- ~2 V0 ?640K ought to be enough for anybody.
# ~- ^$ S7 a2 X7 e- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
* f; I& j0 p* H& X  a) a- B. F. Skinner
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. \: p: _/ ]  T1 F0 W; ^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

: a$ U  a6 y2 \% A3 g. u' GTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
. [$ O: M; l0 N/ q) I7 `- Anonymous
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4 R! ?! q1 O" U0 a5 z, ~3 Q% DFor 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.
3 x1 T/ o+ M4 s# B- i- Andy Rooney

" `& _1 n; R/ [. ?In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
5 Z5 u2 T: r# v5 c7 D- Richard Power
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I 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.
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  V: v! N: D1 H" Z; U( V2 WIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
- Anonymous
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
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+ l7 A" _) A2 R# AThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
7 _8 ?5 }7 o& p7 B; E% d6 u* n- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric

At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
! ^) r0 E3 ^) M4 x2 U- Anonymous

There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
9 y0 O! y, ^" r; w3 L- Jeremy S. Anderson
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& y! n. F3 O' U+ fOne 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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; K( [; \9 {- {* T( a8 Q# HAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
; L. P" s% ]/ K3 z- 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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$ F' I6 g9 i/ ]Save early, save often.
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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8 F" t- @' ?( i3 H# |: HBuild early and build often.
; C. s  q! i( A/ J- Proprietary developer adage

Release 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.
; L4 ~5 [! Z1 M6 |8 y- 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

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

The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
- Jerry Olson

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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' Q- ^6 F1 k9 @+ T. ]  XEverything that can be invented has been invented.
; Z6 Q+ {5 Q% g* i$ K. h/ {, u5 S- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
( Q7 I  e* x. r6 h# y3 ^- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969

& ~0 t  e4 Z6 i) v1 S% C  tAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
0 u3 G5 U# m. K3 T4 A7 V- Arthur C. Clarke

: K6 x- J& o5 A& Z. I$ _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.
) A3 o% N, u: O- Anonymous
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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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.
. ^  R4 b) t$ _7 g; j# L2 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

' S" ]- G6 G- W# c* J5 s4 I* H7 S0 LThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
" \% w5 ^0 v& m! r- 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.
! ]! r0 p- @5 i+ E/ {( @+ @+ w- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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( L0 H0 z9 O% V6 H: h# | From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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6 W) f( P' `2 N: VTechnology 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

How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
, g2 x9 p5 s' q, A; x, @0 ?- Al Gore on Y2K

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
( m! R: X$ e7 S' o- Sydney Brenner in 1927

* i# F$ `4 C1 @; x7 ]% b' LThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
- Linus Torvalds

) `% N0 \5 ^* z9 C: T, ], C. VTo 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.
' i+ L9 n1 I3 P7 o1 H- Linus Torvalds

Windows is just DOS in drag.
- Anonymous
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; f% }1 [2 I( b1 NThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
1 M0 @* s: U  \9 a- 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

; D5 Z7 o# k+ rEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D