Fun Quotations

OliveOil

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
, f, Q) x4 ?* b, e$ G- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
- T.S. Elliot

' H* d! O! e$ N0 u5 V640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- B. F. Skinner

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.
# Z$ v. ^' g7 F1 Q- George Pompidou
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+ `3 s+ V! z* b/ @" zTechnology 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.
2 V) D, U" m& u; F2 s; c& C2 c- 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.
- Andy Rooney

$ ?$ f' Q/ k/ z5 E+ }8 J+ d* FIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
- Richard Power

2 `% e3 g$ z* c* l8 p% d  oI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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6 C1 S- A8 g& s" _! F, T7 eIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
' c2 J2 m* A( F7 U* b9 f- 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.
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
- Bradley's Bromide
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: L+ V5 C. _1 F$ z/ `The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
/ E2 a0 P; O1 `% z- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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$ P$ F: z6 p4 I  K; p: z- iAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
- Anonymous

( S0 K$ O" g8 u; o0 {4 M$ c6 lThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
- Jeremy S. Anderson

( q+ l0 K4 h6 c# I' IOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
9 j4 _$ R. p- y' o4 P, r- Elbert Hubbard
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0 K7 D+ Z+ E1 u6 n- J. f8 k  mAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
# H0 F9 I  ?: |) @7 a- 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.
( H# H% |; Y9 b+ _- Anonymous
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Save early, save often.
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word

Build early and build often.
( q* X; O8 r- s) S1 O: x- Proprietary developer adage

0 B: H& g2 ~" w" g! kRelease early and release often.
4 C" T; Q& v! S8 t- 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.
8 K/ l  g% q. t$ H6 G- Carl Sagan

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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There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
: A. x1 o: `4 E8 ]6 \# l  p( Y- Margaret Thatcher

The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
- Jerry Olson

The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.
- Porterfield

Everything that can be invented has been invented.
3 L, V9 ^# R: }! V+ a- C# l0 C- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

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3 c# b) \$ E* w- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969

/ S. f) m8 @5 fAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke
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* K9 c% ~. `8 D* B/ VAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
- Gregory Benford
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
- Anonymous
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* J, S2 b" Z/ b6 EA 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.
- Thomas Edison
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3 r6 x" W- K* d% uGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
1 k3 @! b( {& ]% O. ^- 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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- y& Y4 Y1 C  P/ [3 O7 D6 I+ Z7 lThe 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.
- Popular Mechanics, 1949

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
  d$ _5 a1 K: {- n/ w1 \0 u- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy

3 K, f+ {* ~$ ]2 k7 \' O4 UTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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# ~1 w% \7 U; r3 W2 fAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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+ A" `& m' ~  x' l$ yHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
: ~7 j2 Y1 h) h1 i0 X- }- Al Gore on Y2K

  Q# A) T3 |- QThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
& T, K3 h# c; [- Sydney Brenner in 1927

The 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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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.
5 }) K. E, q% W) b. ?- Linus Torvalds
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2 L( U- z+ E7 HWindows is just DOS in drag.
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& q) w5 Z$ G# @/ s; H$ IThere 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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Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D