Fun Quotations

OliveOil

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
# A0 B/ v2 y, s/ \- i$ m- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
- T.S. Elliot
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$ V; f5 e. q1 M! t1 V8 S640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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! u4 W* I+ s' l4 F5 k; mThere 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.
/ }- a* s  T  Z, s. O; F/ P- George Pompidou

# G1 x! ~" H* l1 b9 v% DTechnology 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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- q& T- i/ e8 D# D! c, yFor 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.
- Anonymous

; `3 D& b9 G7 n$ c. J3 V1 QComputers 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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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
- Richard Power
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I 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.
- 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.
- Anonymous

1 q6 r& W1 S# f# f& g& NIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
- Bradley's Bromide
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
9 Z* _. P0 y$ N/ ~1 d5 W& m0 d% A# W- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric

/ r1 `) n$ x5 e0 _" tAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
- Anonymous
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9 t  {+ I  t  J. PThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
1 N" f# u+ Q  W& K0 y- Jeremy S. Anderson
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7 t! U  Q8 M6 C& dOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
, `) n- g+ e) N* }- j0 b+ x9 v- Elbert Hubbard

Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
- 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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/ ?7 c, S4 y) B- S8 HSave early, save often.
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word

Build early and build often.
- Proprietary developer adage

Release early and release often.
- Open source developer adage

9 Z- U" s; A) r. b" ~We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
  h, b* _' Y3 j0 ?5 h" 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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0 E' _) O2 Y, v: ^2 K- PThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
; ?4 D" R1 u% r3 ?) I4 x- Margaret Thatcher

! o2 }- \6 X5 D% e+ g# f4 j- ?4 HThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
- Jerry Olson
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) \& p, K! m( N7 `9 _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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4 U9 u0 u4 D. D! X/ }Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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9 u& O- S0 ?/ ~9 D  V- o- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke

+ _( L" `' c! Z0 U: P/ i, q$ NAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
- Gregory Benford
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2 A3 `. R+ C8 B3 E8 P8 Z& F) mNever 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.
- Alan J. Perlis

3 c3 ~% e  m, aI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
1 W) x  h3 `) ]( _+ R- Thomas Edison

Get your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
* I( H2 j# E; e- 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

1 c+ O0 H! i, i# \The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
- Senator Bob Dole

& N" o9 k0 n" o! MComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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- o' o" }. i. I0 ^: a  X From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
( M' L/ ~6 M& h4 G, v- F; R2 r- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy

9 v/ P# L, x+ l) b, UTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
- Andrew Heller, IBM

# c3 E8 C) H' H3 \AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
/ M* ?1 T) M1 O- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos

2 t- s8 M6 j  o. Q5 W4 Y" `How 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.
/ L4 Y* I0 R+ @2 F, q- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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* ]" N0 |8 D5 k7 \2 V, uThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
- Linus Torvalds
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0 q% |+ O9 q) `# {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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3 u0 A. P+ |0 P' QWindows is just DOS in drag.
- Anonymous
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( R# Y, K3 B" T, zThere 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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8 C7 z$ \# F$ c& bEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D