Fun Quotations

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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
  @+ D( F" F- H- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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" L9 t1 ]1 @2 I3 a( y! d& bWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
2 I4 j- @5 {$ y- T.S. Elliot

/ ?; X2 B) k! O! g0 W" T* l) G# I640K ought to be enough for anybody.
/ [. ~. j. B5 N- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981

8 D/ d6 f- y# L3 a. ^9 UThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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' C  l  z- |' sThere 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

Technology 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
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2 D6 X4 C0 a# Q9 Y# l, \0 VFor 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.
5 i( q) D8 V7 U8 _' t- Andy Rooney

In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
6 v5 \; q! v7 a& S) X% n2 ~( F9 j- Richard Power

3 `2 J: r% G/ {0 II think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
3 ^+ T# s9 d& p* I- 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.
- Anonymous
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( g+ V7 c. J& m# ZIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
- Bradley's Bromide
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0 E; G8 ~2 T# y; JThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
  z4 q1 q+ c* k- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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3 }- C2 i4 y/ j2 H. i1 T# bAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
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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.
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
' f* F$ A4 @- d# e2 u- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
- David Thornburg
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- i* N1 [- ~" K8 ~7 {; q1 s& q/ k5 \4 z8 YThose 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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8 Q1 F: c0 ?* {/ ~Save early, save often.
& t  L) N) z$ H4 w4 b1 \- m- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word

Build early and build often.
- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often.
- Open source developer adage

9 F0 h: b' ?! v+ n3 x$ C4 ], DWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
" Q( y+ @) y- ]$ U- Carl Sagan

9 M" D% u9 L; L: ZIf 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.
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: M2 `- J& `' W9 pThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
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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.
- Porterfield
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
, a# S( V; M5 F- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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8 s0 b% h. D1 T$ kAny 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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! r4 B5 L( @4 X) h, K% ^Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
- Anonymous
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% o1 i* x. a. aA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
- s7 r6 O# m3 h" S: I- Alan J. Perlis

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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* p; j0 R4 x. N; ^/ @5 T5 B  c7 cGet 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

The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
5 D5 v# T$ s7 C5 @6 m5 K% K- Senator Bob Dole
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6 h1 W7 I& _* n: v# b, eComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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/ k6 m# l2 a% r! E8 T2 f 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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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.
+ a$ m. U& k$ i3 h3 h4 G* P3 F- 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?
9 c; @* Y7 D& |" B- Al Gore on Y2K

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
- Sydney Brenner in 1927

0 p* Z. ?( N/ F% ^1 |4 v; e3 z) K) xThe 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.
- [# W+ `* U7 U1 D4 A/ n- Linus Torvalds
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Windows is just DOS in drag.
- Anonymous

  A( @& z# ?2 XThere 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
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: Y) p" ]0 h) A: N7 a) DEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D