Fun Quotations

OliveOil

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
" {: e  s8 M* x4 Q) j! a( Y/ t3 Q- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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1 x5 Y$ b" {' H( d# Z$ s8 xWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
$ Q' t; A. X* ?# X2 P/ k1 E- T.S. Elliot
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% }  H2 Z. s  u1 P, E640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981

* p6 u2 g) o8 j! Q# EThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- B. F. Skinner

% z$ W" r9 A$ N( ]. ]# y: B2 S% rThere 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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" W: w6 k/ D& ~% i( W7 j/ U& G5 MTechnology 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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6 I  }8 S7 I) l( Q- g! t% CFor 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
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7 ?5 W" X7 I' R% z7 G8 v6 D2 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.
: t0 ?# w. G+ O$ Y* y+ |- Andy Rooney
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1 ^: w! W" J# \) }3 F9 L0 A! j1 }In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
- Richard Power

3 D4 Z3 n5 @7 `2 W0 \I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
" P% u/ T" H' a. U: \- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
- Scott Adams
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" J2 L% H) [1 W# j, @+ L. E, YIn 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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1 J. X) v5 s  K6 S! |If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
% _; }0 t/ Y- c! C. ]- Bradley's Bromide
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
' ~* i, j! }# w- W! p- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric

At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
- Anonymous
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) ~  r7 z% t9 ~9 F0 `) mThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
- Jeremy S. Anderson

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- d8 R3 R1 `/ N! Y0 f& ~- Z. U" ?- Elbert Hubbard

Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
- David Thornburg

2 e5 e* S- L. u% H. k+ cThose 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

Save early, save often.
+ t. R1 \+ O  \/ `1 I- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word

Build early and build often.
  ]2 L" ~* m# T7 ~! v- Proprietary developer adage
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; I3 c, s, O9 F) r+ `' SRelease early and release often.
- ^7 S: ^6 ~# C  `5 q' J* E- Open source developer adage
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) |# ^- i3 }- z: p9 UWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
- 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.
( Q) B& |, }. h% R% T- Margaret Thatcher
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
3 q1 T" ~0 z6 }4 c- p7 p2 G  P- 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
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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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3 P6 Z$ [# P! Y" xGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969

7 Z% C: S- W* U; X0 F' ?' g* Z* rAny 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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4 J! h/ `' ~5 A% qNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.
4 I# I5 v, }  e& u: h- Anonymous

. l6 s+ W  S7 _# Z7 d( OA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
+ G" B; ?( O, b; J1 ?+ W7 Z- Alan J. Perlis

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
" B0 W8 ]& H' G- Thomas Edison
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5 }" T- u( h% M% t5 x3 Y* kGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
" J% X# a+ r$ g! e6 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
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
- ?! `( @% x8 s- 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

" M" R$ s: p1 _1 R+ T From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
+ @5 p2 r1 j6 x( b% |0 P: a- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy

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.
, S5 _0 m! g+ \) k- 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

- f$ d7 |3 M3 n( v. T* L# {The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
9 ~8 o: g, |( ]2 F- R- Sydney Brenner in 1927

The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
1 X8 _4 S( r; g# L: j: |$ j6 `- 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.
- Linus Torvalds

Windows is just DOS in drag.
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1 e  a% s9 |1 c% u  |# r. l5 B3 ?5 r1 xThere 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.
! D+ c. P( t2 e+ n4 H- {- Thomas Edison
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Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D