Fun Quotations

OliveOil

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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. Z2 p3 q9 l7 z- v6 v+ E5 Q  A, pThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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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.
- George Pompidou

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.
- Anonymous
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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.
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* y/ E% b, f# B! ^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.
7 S/ b  y- e# t; U. C- Andy Rooney

8 {1 f) ^. F- k% v# [. }; X/ g9 ?In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
- `/ v! ?0 \2 O1 q- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
& I  F$ t' U1 w+ m0 ]) u8 s- 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.
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6 [: L7 z* G- l* s+ kIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
3 x' o0 }  U; P/ }- Anonymous
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric

0 T5 m6 K3 q( J, c" P$ R: Z; oAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
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) k9 U4 X4 \0 M5 t2 sThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
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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.
- David Thornburg

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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# J2 M% n" t, a- n$ OBuild early and build often.
* z" G: N# D+ t- Proprietary developer adage
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6 `2 b6 e5 A. v! t, SRelease early and release often.
- 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.
- Carl Sagan

6 {5 n) F) p8 jIf 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.
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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.
8 x! O: b  {' w2 p+ f4 f- Margaret Thatcher
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
$ }8 R0 |# N/ Q( J1 a, u- Jerry Olson
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; {1 H- [* ?1 K1 G& F$ Y1 CThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.
/ ~: y4 E8 n8 B$ r- T- Porterfield

, z# d5 D' j4 b, E; w; O2 BEverything that can be invented has been invented.
) }& S5 F4 e/ x& O- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
$ N- _7 E6 S8 i9 u, `  |; T- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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% B! q3 A$ g4 ~' K( t* zAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke

( K5 i+ Z0 F! ]) ^/ B: D5 eAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
- Anonymous

! y8 X2 x( M/ p! iA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
2 k) W8 Y; c5 u- Alan J. Perlis
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$ X$ K  r0 l, @9 {; j  l) ^I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
9 B. g. A  ~  J4 B, W- Thomas Edison

Get your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
6 J# Y1 M5 _  n- 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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2 W5 x0 j& E/ q# g2 oThe 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.
8 }: l6 A7 d1 ], @2 E0 \# H/ I4 M' d- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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( Q  `0 r1 @1 g5 M From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
6 g4 Q5 z2 K1 _* I7 e- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
% m  Y3 L; ^8 r, \) L- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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0 G  y! G  T! b( K$ x5 T: s( wHow 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.
- Sydney Brenner in 1927

5 J# x1 z" r# U+ PThe 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.
- Linus Torvalds

Windows is just DOS in drag.
- Anonymous
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9 D1 z$ i) N7 H2 x) ?( [There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
& ]' I$ V, y; H9 c- 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.
) w( B% {! d) ?% C4 u- Thomas Edison
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Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D