Fun Quotations

OliveOil

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
( q' L0 |9 v" I  D5 ~$ }. u: `- Andrew S. Tannenbaum

8 Y( G: V. Y) F  {Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
5 m0 h' [% B5 W5 A# s- T.S. Elliot
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; E$ x( B/ H% x: |* f' ?( H: ?640K ought to be enough for anybody.
7 o( f: C+ H( `- v* _) Q- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981

1 ~& }% |& W- `9 S, z; bThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- C  o6 Y( W7 K5 A# |, _- B. F. Skinner
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/ v3 s2 ~1 N' {% ~0 [, s) QThere 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

$ N% M5 H; n' fTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
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  y5 p, n- ]5 IFor 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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: h9 F# ~  d  F% u) gComputers 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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2 q2 C6 G# _7 D: KIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
$ q* N/ V, J: L' y9 X; i- Richard Power
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; M. G! q9 q# Q& E+ a$ I/ ~I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
( }0 t4 Z: v$ ]7 _# i1 |- 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
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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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6 ]2 T. S1 d: o3 ~, ]$ F$ GIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
- Bradley's Bromide

7 W& b3 x- I+ p5 @1 Q* zThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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, \1 h: a3 Y9 T9 L. U1 a2 [At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
- Anonymous
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There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
( z! s' u: C$ x$ ~+ ~* v( j- Jeremy S. Anderson

+ d8 ]0 z+ u+ ]9 A# KOne 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.
2 i4 @- t( x$ h' J5 y- David Thornburg

) }( _7 p' T( 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
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Save early, save often.
- ]& ]5 n* m( I* p- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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3 K* q7 T, q* S5 i6 }4 sBuild early and build often.
- Proprietary developer adage

, B2 y, @5 R9 PRelease early and release often.
. g+ i( n- D4 J" ?' C2 \! H: L- 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.
/ |* O% ?& ]: V8 \- Carl Sagan

3 T; ?  Z0 S: x3 N; OIf 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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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
! p' k1 ?7 G: a5 e5 v! i- Jerry Olson
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; E& z" c2 a$ H& BThe 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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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
+ Z- w1 K% k  p( x, d/ b" ^- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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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.
- Arthur C. Clarke

% F6 {$ f3 d: d% YAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
- Gregory Benford
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' k3 \  Q, p  M& k, g0 a. J1 nNever 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.
7 n* F9 C2 R6 ^" A/ w6 u  B- Thomas Edison

+ ^6 S! T* N3 k7 j+ ?+ lGet 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.
8 J" P+ i% F: K" q$ J- Senator Bob Dole

4 f5 j" Y4 ^2 V* U/ LComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
' A) m  u0 S" a6 K- Popular Mechanics, 1949

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy

+ ]2 s2 G# {9 _- n, D. HTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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/ y2 O1 l3 }1 E3 U5 T2 MAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
% c. \/ ]( [* a- D% U5 _- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
. U* ~7 h2 `8 ^4 N- Al Gore on Y2K
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* Y2 u; G- v' `# pThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
* b) e$ O; l, L$ c9 X* o4 |5 ^0 R- Sydney Brenner in 1927

The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
. T4 S" \- X  T/ ?6 T+ z- Q& o3 _- Linus Torvalds
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2 ~5 h8 e/ X1 V. HTo 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.
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3 W) s( @8 s1 ~: X3 E& g# H" B$ t' [Windows is just DOS in drag.
- Anonymous

/ B) J1 {9 t4 t4 lThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
6 E# }9 A9 z" ~- 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.
. v: v; u6 t; @. i- Thomas Edison

9 v- C* E) M0 r4 a; bEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D