Fun Quotations

OliveOil

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?
5 B* [! v3 _  V" E; T3 X- r- T.S. Elliot

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

1 Y8 O/ O4 C  {7 M3 gThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- B. F. Skinner

6 m; k8 _$ j( }# A2 [0 S3 }8 L4 wThere 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.
4 C, `. d+ c4 E( n- 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.
7 _' @( I2 g1 C5 m: [; J2 o- 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.
9 i. s8 m6 V& ?0 S4 j7 o- Anonymous
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1 T8 p/ i% z/ VComputers 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

' y& F- U8 X0 n* G% |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

0 x( ~& n( n. {# C$ _0 ~If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
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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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9 v  b( c! A- a5 dIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
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/ J8 |6 C! X8 O: t; k* `) x+ |The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric

  j+ d  a& f5 MAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
- Anonymous

) |1 P& n7 w) k  r" {% J5 Y0 @There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
- Jeremy S. Anderson
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4 g* ~( J1 o5 T  WOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
5 D, f( k  _2 a  S# N7 [2 P$ b- 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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Save early, save often.
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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  ^, C8 J) b- D# l/ J# mBuild early and build often.
- Proprietary developer adage
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6 S* |4 C% p/ p# [$ m1 ^3 r* o! {4 gRelease early and release often.
- Open source developer adage
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# `! w  d* F4 o; l" w' ]8 QWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
$ F0 R- w7 _9 [- 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

There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
; U, F: {9 z2 [: K- Margaret Thatcher

; k! N3 D% o. d/ |* dThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
- Jerry Olson

( S: z. \  s+ e5 X, W5 a/ gThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.
- ~( p4 I/ k. c; |7 d- Porterfield
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
( O0 c: k, @1 M: C* A6 L- 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

Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
4 Y# i$ D4 z' p, \- Gregory Benford
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
- Anonymous

A 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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  S1 s2 [6 v& @, f* W" [  \4 BGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
6 G0 \* h& B- {- o- X4 ?- 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

The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
* K7 v" c, ^% m. M9 m- Senator Bob Dole

Computers 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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( F2 B' H: B' A1 J. x From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
- m3 X, U* R+ F+ k+ w. @' }1 R, h- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy

0 V- ~* y) @1 H; I. Y1 ]; ^Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
9 B3 I8 C9 X  j. t0 l- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
# r) r6 r; c7 @' ~- 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?
+ B+ U2 v8 R; Y+ u# i# J- Al Gore on Y2K

* b+ W+ W% S+ Z2 }: qThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
8 d6 E' u* i9 Z5 a- Sydney Brenner in 1927

) ~) \: f- v, ?) RThe 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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% Y( \6 N1 {3 e5 J& E! _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 X, u; d2 s7 K$ k7 J: fWindows is just DOS in drag.
  F: q1 j  |' Y1 a* {! q- Anonymous
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! ^! {! ]. z, J2 W5 V; sThere 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