Fun Quotations

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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
* c# G/ I* c+ @* ?" I- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
8 ~; k6 x& Y1 l6 C- T.S. Elliot

640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
0 N+ x: x( |" F' e, m  _7 v- l- B. F. Skinner

% Y9 S6 m$ Y, K9 `8 E, r( |' ^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.
: o1 l9 I/ L, D* M: _9 O- George Pompidou
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) G6 }- K4 g' w$ |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.
5 F$ g$ Z6 P( K. |* K- Anonymous

3 c% A4 ^& ]; v/ zFor 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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6 |/ x' Y: T' N1 J/ JComputers 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.
  @1 M, ^( `" j( J# x$ P: N- Andy Rooney

6 z  }# k3 n7 @' ]& I" O- MIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
- Richard Power
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, w: ?& x5 q# TI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943

# y$ @3 z3 e8 b! O) x7 _4 t6 q/ ~+ xIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
- Scott Adams

# M1 X' F8 F' Q5 B* i7 S9 UIn 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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( r7 [- y9 W, Y% {If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
- Bradley's Bromide
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& K  d& D8 w$ s% YThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
; y3 {: X6 U7 g' A- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric

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.
) Y' V0 a, s0 w7 H, R6 R% t4 e- Jeremy S. Anderson
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) \4 J& q! k5 k' SOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard

Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
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& r7 A/ e8 ^+ F# rThose 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.
9 X' s, A! p7 n0 Y- X' k( p- Anonymous
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$ p6 @. x* g( \) eSave early, save often.
; j5 P3 N2 s- C: g# X- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often.
& ~7 I4 I/ v/ E7 z- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often.
$ ?; F+ u7 X) K4 _0 J. ^1 u9 u- 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.
/ E' ]$ D+ t2 G+ X# E- Carl Sagan

4 x! ]+ v* Y7 d2 N/ n9 l  e1 pIf 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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There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
2 h9 z+ Y8 p( U- Margaret Thatcher
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3 A2 u/ K# t( r) {- pThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
5 z' M4 T' b/ T3 F: Z4 ~- Jerry Olson
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) @& p1 `2 I0 q& o7 wThe 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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6 y) v+ K+ L, ?" i/ ?Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
- S! Q7 R6 ^4 c# ^4 \7 t- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969

Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
+ Z* O8 _0 b3 [) y- w# C- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
2 V4 f8 J' |( v! W. h& `& K* Y5 T4 O- Gregory Benford
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
5 M/ H7 J7 ~7 C9 @' H/ F5 J1 D- Anonymous

9 Z* l7 D- ?6 J2 r' `0 lA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
4 Z2 j  `" h0 F* U- Alan J. Perlis

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison
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Get 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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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
- 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.
3 V' \2 F6 U# w8 F! g' g+ m/ t- Popular Mechanics, 1949

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy

4 B5 }9 R0 l2 z* n, ]) l5 p" i6 `Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
- Andrew Heller, IBM

- `1 F8 b# D4 Z% vAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
0 F. Y1 ]0 ^4 G- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos

How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
. |) K8 j1 U" r9 p! G1 M4 T/ h/ N- Al Gore on Y2K
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
2 F/ ^: H5 U  n& B6 f0 ?- 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.
- Linus Torvalds

1 H- W' V' Q8 cTo 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.
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Windows is just DOS in drag.
1 a9 B4 t$ Z, f; D- Anonymous
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; z9 f6 A" E* _/ S7 `; N$ s- [0 FThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
$ h0 ]* `1 W# q# S- 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.
/ h; H! d5 C: [$ u5 C! L3 |/ H- Thomas Edison

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