Fun Quotations

OliveOil

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

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
* L" u+ P7 X( j- w1 G2 Q- T.S. Elliot
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$ V: ^: Y( X2 b% j. |640K ought to be enough for anybody.
  N( h7 W0 M* n) P- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981

, G' L8 S: Z2 Q2 U& f9 ?0 wThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
' b" V* ?1 e' ?- B- B. F. Skinner

+ [( N6 {7 e+ S' q  [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
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% [9 ]9 E' K* z, H' U+ VTechnology 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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) c7 _8 W$ S: v& {! o+ gFor 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.
, s$ z- O$ J) g: r* D5 I/ N/ J$ ]3 a2 o- 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.
0 i7 x3 }4 x. ~4 D  L- Andy Rooney

0 U1 {5 I3 M$ R8 iIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
- Richard Power

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
& \  D- j$ r% [& F2 U- 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.
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% [7 |6 h, }) [* T8 F. N1 pIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
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% L* y* q% |0 p( k! l- A4 \The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
6 Z9 X+ Z- W" b# ^& ^# k0 c- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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# Q% m% l, d( g- h4 `At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
- Anonymous

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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! d6 m. L, i8 c+ jOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard

0 i: I7 \  C' \* ?Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
. u1 D& ]6 z; n" Y- David Thornburg

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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( }7 p% y+ e% `" v. [9 C3 [Save early, save often.
7 J5 B( m/ s5 F- _) J  Z# Q' a- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often.
$ Z& `/ }3 C9 U+ _- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often.
) c  ]4 v1 i* ^1 ]. e- Open source developer adage

! n4 v8 n! r- O- I! n9 `3 A: IWe 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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$ @& \! Y( J7 S; Q8 e8 u) `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.
0 v$ T0 m, ~/ @- Anonymous
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0 l/ `9 ~; \0 l/ w& A8 A5 s/ k% wThere 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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8 [; [7 ]* N9 T6 [6 Z5 ~The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
8 n# R5 ?: j6 Y+ C! u5 {+ X- Jerry Olson

; t- h% P% U+ O- [9 p# }: c) \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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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
# ^% w& h0 Z' {  }- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969

# p+ z. X1 E3 MAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
* X# i, {: Q6 Q: t- Arthur C. Clarke

Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
- Gregory Benford
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2 _9 x+ x" L& Y; ~; |8 WNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.
- Anonymous

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.
9 x$ w! F; P1 k- Thomas Edison

) j( E2 t8 ~' I- M4 ?, g. nGet 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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, h, A4 j) w7 i, b+ Z% NThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
( P7 [- i2 t) n% B5 O- Senator Bob Dole
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* {" h2 I8 s' ^* n. e9 B) ]Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
: w5 _( B4 \" z* [$ o. N2 E- 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

- _& i6 @0 i( [- U+ M4 d! zTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
( z1 Q+ U* \3 W' a4 ~- Andrew Heller, IBM

AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
# C2 _" c! j* Z  T( t+ n4 B  ~( r- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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3 p: e8 ?% H% r2 sHow 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.
- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
9 o- O& @- n/ W, h2 r5 F- 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

0 L7 i5 S5 D& D# r2 bWindows is just DOS in drag.
6 m' e1 b4 q) `' n/ b# R- Anonymous
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
* n2 E2 U: L# I- 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.
4 \3 e& ?6 \+ z! M1 s3 n- Thomas Edison
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$ L( r! A. X* }3 x' i7 u" m: I) nEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D