Fun Quotations

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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
# g1 M; i  F' Q$ L2 E- T.S. Elliot
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; M3 R! q' F7 |: \' ]640K ought to be enough for anybody.
( a" v2 z. V' F* P6 m- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- B. F. Skinner

. `( a! m, E& l2 o' hThere 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.
* |% J& J' |; \. u6 c1 t# e- George Pompidou
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4 }8 t$ Y6 w7 {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

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.
8 t* J4 Q2 @) U) `) f2 p- Anonymous
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" e* G3 W) X( ]. ~/ xComputers 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.
6 d/ T% U: M; c5 P. ?4 B1 e$ [- Andy Rooney
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+ _0 o' {- H! l9 ZIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
- Richard Power
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( N  p9 z) N0 U  \8 u4 j% a& WI 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.
- 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.
- Anonymous

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

The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
) n# j" n: e# Y0 Z  J+ I. g( K- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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9 ~9 J* m) I9 {7 M9 ?4 E9 vAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
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# z/ u- D( Z, u/ ^- sThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
- Jeremy S. Anderson
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; c, O1 M4 X0 U* u+ Y- ~One 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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& w& ~' L# S7 F4 n# mAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
- David Thornburg

1 z! g2 y& y# O& _9 c! W) oThose 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

Save early, save often.
  N, A8 p' }/ d3 C8 x8 @- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often.
6 d) f0 u" w3 q& W- Proprietary developer adage

& b# O8 }! v1 ?* LRelease early and release often.
/ l% Q& P* o0 g' n- Open source developer adage
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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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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.
  C$ v! p# v5 Y: P9 }6 t- 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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- N6 z/ M; o6 O0 uEverything 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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1 C. W$ o% D, b6 N" v2 r! JAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
1 H9 Q" S+ c1 u- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
- Gregory Benford

3 e% k3 z& q! |9 V1 uNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.
- Anonymous
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7 w7 O) K9 P# J8 I- RA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
: D3 ?; P9 Y: O( q- Alan J. Perlis

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
9 b2 G0 L5 |8 ~0 Q  G6 w  ]) R- Thomas Edison

3 R# C0 n7 y" Z. V: {/ g! xGet 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

7 ?. Y+ s+ z8 e( TThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
- Senator Bob Dole

  `% g: Y: L4 h0 l: I3 ]Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
5 q  r1 A' u" \; A9 e2 ?% ?3 B$ S- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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, i4 X  t' f2 M) j From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy

Technology 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.
( ?+ V/ R5 q5 p" m" h+ K& E& [2 C- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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2 P: b' Q3 O6 T1 T+ h! ZHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
- Al Gore on Y2K

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
5 }- ^% M' c% b) q6 t- Sydney Brenner in 1927

The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
. ~  t% Q' O! e2 P7 @  B' z6 `6 E5 W- Linus Torvalds

9 ?+ J9 z5 e8 L8 oTo 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

! W& e6 t: k5 a) v5 {4 ]Windows is just DOS in drag.
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
; `0 x" P2 l) V: k1 t7 }  d- 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.
5 W" ]( x) Z2 U/ H+ b3 x; L- Thomas Edison

Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D