Fun Quotations

OliveOil

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

4 L+ t* ?2 c1 Z, IWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981

/ n; j2 E& ~6 i6 t( R- A: oThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- B. F. Skinner

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

  z  v# M! B$ W3 Q* h: rTechnology 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

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

! g3 `# ]3 q' E' i. \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.
7 V" f. u/ Y; s- Andy Rooney
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  ?- ~3 {) H+ q0 DIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
1 Y1 G' H, K* p0 W6 u. }- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
, H, `$ E" ~; n7 G8 N& B! w) i- 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

9 V! V4 y* }! u# \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
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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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; ]8 s0 E) \3 P) w" Q, Z) g3 oThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
9 S+ X7 K# q/ ^- V9 ~- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric

At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
  `* v5 j# y, z- Anonymous

There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
- Jeremy S. Anderson

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
7 e  b+ C9 n( g/ n0 i: O/ U- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
- David Thornburg

* @5 D7 w4 J% ~0 L7 D" r- pThose 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.
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5 z; |# G0 C5 a' zSave early, save often.
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often.
- Proprietary developer adage

Release early and release often.
. V2 i5 D# }5 f$ h+ j- 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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; w* R. ?9 E) t: ~* o, Y2 rIf 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

1 I, t1 w8 I& f0 o8 x: Q+ KThere 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

0 f: k8 _# K+ C% p3 _' G% oThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.
- Porterfield

Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- 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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6 T/ |# e! \9 d6 j# FAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
0 Y5 A, {" Q& @+ y7 ]- Arthur C. Clarke

* D; U, n0 ?5 b" H3 H* ^( }, nAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
3 L+ w0 z+ ~- Q4 |5 Q- Gregory Benford
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6 C0 i4 K' @$ J# w2 J( D" c" a+ ?Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
, S8 e) T5 D7 o5 D* i- 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.
0 @' x6 a* k* x# c; `- p* ?" K! x- 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.
2 B  [, s' E  M4 [1 x: F4 D- 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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' X+ a3 P, V1 p9 H* FThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
* u) G7 }5 x3 t* m$ O4 b- Senator Bob Dole
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, f7 c$ R) H% p* H( f; z7 hComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
+ _! m4 _0 n, R9 S# r6 X' Y- u- 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
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0 }. O5 e8 v6 I. b' T( c/ wTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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; ]$ T7 f. @9 @$ S' zAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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& N- K) C9 G5 H, e) _8 a" s: ]How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
* r! J2 |) n( J. F2 H- |- Al Gore on Y2K

. n) U. }! H0 j5 h0 \& `  ?6 mThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
/ A2 Z4 \) f8 R% H' B5 _) H- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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0 S9 v5 z& i1 x* [8 l: ]+ LThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
- Linus Torvalds
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+ w0 i# ]1 J4 ^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.
- Linus Torvalds

2 I* L7 }/ Z4 W7 x$ T/ \3 aWindows is just DOS in drag.
& [2 C# Q8 T% D; r* I- Anonymous
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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

connie

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

: S! w- H8 f7 Y) S# k, IEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D