Fun Quotations

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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
- T.S. Elliot
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% m# f7 g* M  x) u640K ought to be enough for anybody.
. v) ^: J; A* d/ H- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
2 Y2 B3 B5 @1 v0 f- B. F. Skinner
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2 h: O; A" i' k( h, G! n8 IThere 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.
- 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.
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# t7 ]) j4 ]+ K5 O0 q- W/ nFor 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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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

2 X2 j; r% n( s9 n6 [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.
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
2 s# n. t" Q. s* r+ p4 H- Scott Adams
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+ K- Y+ G# Q. d: W' e' DIn 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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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
- Bradley's Bromide
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' \9 a: O0 Z& a3 J* dThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric

6 ?* U7 U! |# g3 W0 t5 ~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.
' S& J: r4 m3 I$ Z- Jeremy S. Anderson
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
4 B: o" C, Y2 w, ~5 ^- David Thornburg
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! y  W+ l& X- A: ], Z. Q& I0 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.
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( U4 v$ M1 {: z3 [; nSave early, save often.
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often.
/ a( u+ ?; A; r& ]- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
- 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.
- Margaret Thatcher
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- N% Q" V- Q( l5 \" MThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
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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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: J, w4 p5 d" ?8 ]& q, f3 C2 ~GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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. w" ]. z# I. c. P  O# ?Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
2 W4 L& J8 K& c! Q3 u- Arthur C. Clarke

Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
- Gregory Benford

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

/ H  v* K2 x" f0 h# L& sGet 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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: E! p8 c& n" `" k- k' b' gThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
; C+ z' z# V" ^- Senator Bob Dole

( p8 Q/ ]' g7 |3 ~) z' b/ f6 NComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
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6 K* b1 L7 N- v, t From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
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6 X% |8 f* r! @9 I% s2 ], i! G) z3 i( NTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
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2 _: y# Z( `- b7 P( T6 ~0 [4 FAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos

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.
6 m6 u, o' v4 w4 m- M' C5 g4 E- 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.
# V9 y7 M0 H! G/ Z' F- 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.
4 t+ W0 A0 N1 Q- [1 a) F+ q2 |- Linus Torvalds
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Windows is just DOS in drag.
- Anonymous

  o0 A: `6 D2 ^; aThere 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

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