Fun Quotations

OliveOil

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
2 f+ n5 ~8 `% X8 J- W; O6 Y. c- N- Andrew S. Tannenbaum

- @7 J7 N- ?' fWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
- T.S. Elliot
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  S9 F/ p1 @) y  R1 _3 U640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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" @- [5 k/ g' H" @The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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7 m5 E- \; V# X' z/ H" \9 I# pThere 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.
5 Z$ A! b7 ?! D. k6 ^' g. E- George Pompidou

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

1 G' v2 M! C% k' jFor 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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: ~" s) M6 t7 H& W3 i+ @; W* nComputers 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.
8 q. }: Q% T3 E3 B! ]- Andy Rooney

$ t- J& k( ^" L" S( ?$ lIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
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9 X. r; y% l! MI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
5 G* ~1 N) E9 c9 m0 K- 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.
- Anonymous

8 J. K% l! t7 D% m: }) vIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
- Anonymous

; u: j( G# o1 ^4 ]+ z4 B/ kThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
0 T4 ?. ~, ?- ?9 n5 K3 U- Jeremy S. Anderson

6 v  P, u1 f  H0 }5 A' [; \. XOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- K  a$ p8 e# p/ ?- Elbert Hubbard
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% x* K2 W. y9 U6 `* Z% Z* v- j: w" [Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
, P7 N8 U4 ~3 d4 Q- David Thornburg
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; X: J2 k' L6 qThose 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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  t( R: Q8 q1 ~2 [% A0 Z; ^! P& wSave early, save often.
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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2 q" X: F' _* H3 L5 t' oBuild early and build often.
" A- y; ^$ W5 \. u: k6 w- Proprietary developer adage

Release early and release often.
- Open source developer adage
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% ?& I: W7 q' i8 H9 n" H+ LWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
; f) t) g/ n$ k$ h  F  X- 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
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: s3 W. t7 g9 D; x) {# ZThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
' N( J2 l% D& q; r7 a- Margaret Thatcher

/ z* {; H: r" j1 {The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
3 T: Y+ z+ g1 X) Y# N' `  B- Jerry Olson

% c' @9 v2 `$ s9 YThe 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
- 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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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
- Gregory Benford
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3 n8 @, [4 o% T1 u( X9 Y; w, [Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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A 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
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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.
3 U& D" w% J1 Z$ G3 ~- 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.
, s* |$ A7 h1 Y6 D- Popular Mechanics, 1949

1 |4 ^3 U  x5 ?( h' L 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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Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
( @  g$ _. A4 j- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
- Al Gore on Y2K

- [: h- n  d% X" ?, C: K" O, A$ R# PThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
! W6 d" k( s4 ]! S0 _- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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! Y  B6 R# p. `* VThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
. M7 L2 W: }) R! B* _" H, w- Linus Torvalds

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.
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' Z' y5 M# I4 }* N, kThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
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connie

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison

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