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?
- A: e  D1 M$ V7 b. b0 N- T.S. Elliot

/ I7 Z; S8 R7 I2 F( t640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981

; |: g, h# f4 `5 b3 k- HThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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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.
/ H# V. |" G2 M  V- 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.
4 \" n$ I) Z# l3 X8 H- Anonymous
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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.
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+ z$ D8 k, G+ _" g: @8 x: d; zIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
. O: ]1 b  z. T7 K6 S- Richard Power
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  h( t& O0 F5 s9 j# PI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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2 y' l; z, \5 n$ gIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
- Scott Adams
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  `& h4 u, \/ l# x9 s  lIn 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.
4 d# |8 T6 T' n$ M0 Z- J- V: A; N- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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  r! f' f+ N- l2 F3 Y1 DAt 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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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
- 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.
7 D: @2 k: U0 z! Z0 f' m1 `- Anonymous
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/ H3 q' x. i: a  b2 hSave early, save often.
; C6 i- H7 `! Q1 |, T- s( f- `- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word

Build early and build often.
- Proprietary developer adage

/ ?8 x* D0 e4 K: Q5 N1 JRelease early and release often.
- 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.
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: F1 L  P& v) \' t9 h9 `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

( K- M( B8 w# {  JThere 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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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
- Jerry Olson
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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.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
, ^3 q, ~% ^5 P' u; [- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke
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& h7 i1 r: f$ TAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
- Gregory Benford

Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
- Anonymous
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8 W' m( d# @2 _- F1 n; TA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison

- F! v, Q. }" {( v$ j. c( FGet 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.
- Senator Bob Dole

1 a: \" f" p# o9 [# YComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
' _. D8 K! E- R. L6 X! \% D- 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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5 q; Q" P2 l7 w3 gTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos

4 t# X- `9 C' I: l1 AHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
- Al Gore on Y2K
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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.
; d- v7 z" c; r! D4 c- 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
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Windows is just DOS in drag.
- Anonymous
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0 _; i( q3 B! q( JThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
  Y* l4 `$ r: ^) V' u8 H- 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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' S) V3 j1 ~- x$ c* IEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D