Fun Quotations

OliveOil

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
% t. x, D$ w3 Y8 n: w5 ~; j- Andrew S. Tannenbaum

0 }# i' p. ~3 r  nWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
- T.S. Elliot

/ l0 X+ t) C& s/ o1 j  ^640K ought to be enough for anybody.
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7 ~* Z; t" Q3 P: GThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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) v2 ~# i9 T6 M9 \- L  pThere 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

8 j, C- X& }, h/ `5 _0 gTechnology 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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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.
4 p5 U5 e6 M/ F( q0 g- Anonymous
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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
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4 v! Y# w. Q) g/ J! W9 m* \In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
/ L* p5 l& R$ @5 t5 R6 c- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- i: r3 b: `% f3 \3 n, u' V- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943

1 i6 E# y, K; Z# hIf 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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2 t* D5 W; q) A0 b  OIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
9 ]  x4 m+ Q+ a- Bradley's Bromide

The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
# A/ [! u' K7 A7 i/ b6 M- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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1 m+ ^( O0 l9 G* R) e- c- j% CAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
- Anonymous
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0 R: k( I# V* i, z0 H& V  c1 ZThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
- Jeremy S. Anderson

( ^0 w1 y6 s- d4 vOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
) Q$ w" y3 m/ N4 W( ^& j- Elbert Hubbard
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. c2 {$ V0 l0 l: b3 ZAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
9 {* u0 F9 ~- a8 _- David Thornburg

( C+ z6 b. P) S7 UThose 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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Save early, save often.
3 v" ~5 w; R! A/ A. }- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word

Build early and build often.
- Proprietary developer adage

" w; V: u) @# ?) d; O( v5 }5 s) ^6 URelease early and release often.
- Open source developer adage
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# w3 e) ~5 @' bWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
- Carl Sagan

2 O- U, ]- T, z( W* UIf 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.
4 F5 v' r8 h7 T6 \1 |3 @. K0 [7 }4 D- Margaret Thatcher

The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
5 u0 M0 a4 c0 [- J( o# [7 S- 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.
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1 i6 \$ P5 N5 j& E& @. B5 T0 AEverything that can be invented has been invented.
9 M9 M. ?& T2 z1 m( N- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
- `. L  t( C# `0 z7 K6 }- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969

Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
$ G& V. c% x* `; J- ~/ f- m- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any 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

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
- Alan J. Perlis
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1 |1 W9 r& u# _8 |, p9 Q7 S& q% PI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison
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2 v9 x% j0 Y& t; z  LGet 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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5 }: {! G+ n9 @8 J# uThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
& o8 g( a3 r  n  }* g( H) i+ m- Senator Bob Dole
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3 y! u3 A, @3 S& y+ tComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
6 E- s4 w! }# {+ k- Popular Mechanics, 1949

6 W6 [  u& ~, j3 @4 p- F" Q; W0 e From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy

) K" }) R. ^" LTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
. s+ q% v+ j+ F  A. |6 J  c$ ^- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL 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.
- Sydney Brenner in 1927

3 v1 P9 ?0 V& o! |% Q6 ]The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
  k5 x8 U8 ], [$ m) l. G- Linus Torvalds

+ R; d( f. b$ ^& S4 S- j# u* zTo 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

There 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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/ U: P# V- y: z+ M) rEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D