Fun Quotations

OliveOil

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
6 ?) b0 {9 j9 f9 \" q3 i- Andrew S. Tannenbaum

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
" L, X3 P" J$ f- [: N- y% ~  ~% p8 J- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- B. F. Skinner
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2 s7 k; j" ~4 U7 n% Y1 x) ^6 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.
- George Pompidou
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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.
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% M4 y4 S3 V" G% yComputers 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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9 z1 x+ S# q" W, |0 N! U, _In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
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* q1 F. h1 \+ K2 z6 W  qI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943

7 e. Q# b  x1 _+ b' uIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
6 K1 u3 r0 N2 r$ w- 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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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
  K5 i' H5 a: ]5 i- Bradley's Bromide
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
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# L) Q1 \& ]0 y1 SAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
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+ g6 u5 a0 g# TThere 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.
& e7 O( k) Y' h( d7 x* N/ ?; A' V1 m- Elbert Hubbard

7 }& Z4 b) [) O0 {( N  dAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
" i+ F% h1 ?! q# j$ T+ b, t4 [1 ~" p- David Thornburg
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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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0 w- e' l& {2 n- 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.
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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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5 n3 p8 D" a1 X  Z. q* TIf 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.
6 D9 ~0 z) `  l& k/ N# p- Anonymous
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: _1 t/ }2 l* p2 m9 dThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
+ G, {% A: j. R% v- Margaret Thatcher

The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
8 _# d; y- S, T  k5 ?- Jerry Olson

, u( M/ H  j, ~% F% rThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.
- Porterfield

+ N# Q0 H2 o2 V- z2 h* ]6 M$ r5 WEverything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969

Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
0 x" T9 h0 W# E- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
2 A+ J7 B1 \# c) H. `* _- Gregory Benford
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. y' y& Y& J) I* Y2 vNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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2 A- y: _- }9 x6 aA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
- Alan J. Perlis
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% ~0 ?  O8 j. E0 h$ x. O) L3 f9 S0 QI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
2 C3 j* @0 P1 K0 s- _- Thomas Edison
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$ R6 a* w1 G, u4 X# g: [" lGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
$ l! {# i  i6 W9 J( [- M- 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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6 O7 I4 ]: l- X1 w4 J( u! KThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
2 G: o* G" N( H, J- 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.
2 I% v& a* h* v9 Z- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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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 t7 J, Z: H5 V3 WTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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  o8 C3 n$ P/ {- zAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
! Q* K. V% X% y2 v- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos

How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
6 Q8 p' `3 N% X. |; _" Y- Al Gore on Y2K

% i" O: b+ x$ I/ ^The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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, g' K; u. w, Y  aThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
, `: ^) K+ s: ^- Linus Torvalds
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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

Windows is just DOS in drag.
- Anonymous

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