Fun Quotations

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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
5 D7 p6 ]' i  H- D2 p- Andrew S. Tannenbaum

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
& X7 p' W  E* y/ P- T.S. Elliot

$ e4 h% d8 c* e4 `( P640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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% Z' J' X/ [7 d) ~3 j6 yThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
. |$ y5 E# K8 u! }- B. F. Skinner

# z' H- c, e3 `' Q  p& SThere 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

' T& U. k# v9 q5 J! XTechnology 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

8 l8 @3 O  v2 ]0 J. m4 h/ E! \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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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.
% @, D! ]+ t5 g% y. n- Andy Rooney

/ t! h% q( |3 l. u. k6 @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

( K7 I: K2 C% O) v6 L/ D. G6 GIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
- 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.
- Anonymous
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! A' z3 B' D; G8 c, G0 u7 QIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
- Bradley's Bromide

' _+ \9 c+ ]/ UThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
1 C& {0 y. q0 X1 g4 u! }5 K0 a& M- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric

* q  f  Y( k+ m- m; o$ B# t" ^At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
- Anonymous

) H0 g& K8 r0 f8 nThere 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.
- Elbert Hubbard

Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
' f* S0 Z/ R: _- 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.
9 p  o% H$ \4 j, k- Anonymous
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Save early, save often.
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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+ Q& j/ w% Y0 C& g( [Build early and build often.
- Proprietary developer adage

$ f- Y8 Q+ R; W) p2 s4 C: }9 }5 V0 JRelease early and release often.
8 P: H; w; O* l2 a' N- 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.
6 e1 N1 C  b5 G4 s& g+ ~$ ~- Carl Sagan
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! K/ n. |! K4 {) w# w* Y/ t5 OIf 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

. ^) u  ~: G1 ]. |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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, v4 `" ~/ D6 Z6 M8 MThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
1 x* U* R* g+ G  j, x- Jerry Olson
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4 P% l) B6 M& n8 b: IThe 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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6 H$ j4 ^$ _, s$ f1 S6 n- M) y4 kEverything that can be invented has been invented.
1 z( _" ]2 k- L8 I& c- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

5 f  I, ]1 f- ~( |. ]# J' g8 G# tGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
% p, I) }1 t8 G7 }1 Z) F- Arthur C. Clarke
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) ?8 d5 \# g# uAny 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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+ i8 P% c1 D. [- P' p0 N! H) rA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
- Alan J. Perlis
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& |. g; ^4 b+ Z+ JI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison
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Get your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
  ?! f, e& B8 p3 I. I$ H* |( 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

7 v: j% f( w# o. {: S# Q8 jThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
# J) U# R3 Q, ?" a% f- Senator Bob Dole
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' _0 V+ m! j& [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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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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" [2 Z; p2 i& V4 G2 jTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
9 l2 h; e8 [7 X1 J, o; P( _* a- Andrew Heller, IBM
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7 I3 g1 q' I2 q' J6 sAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
3 v1 N/ ?: v+ z& ?- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos

How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
, K3 p% }2 `7 L. z6 e/ ?! y+ I- Al Gore on Y2K

. k# a  I* m: j" eThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
- 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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: `1 A" ~: `$ p8 _6 LTo 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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% m% ]3 A  N" Y. D/ _Windows is just DOS in drag.
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
9 }, y, A1 O: {3 I- 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.
1 G, R  Z, Y3 ?  j2 a2 \6 h3 L- Thomas Edison

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