Fun Quotations

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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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( A0 _* ^) x! _Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
/ u4 t4 ?1 v: N" @& J) ]- T.S. Elliot
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* T5 U6 W7 I5 L- S1 L' F* Z640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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' K& C; K) K9 L  S2 P3 Q: MThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
5 P6 [9 o) Y8 v7 n( s, |" T$ z- B. F. Skinner

# m9 r; v) q5 V, `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.
" u1 d$ t0 ]: w9 s1 A3 Z. S# W0 S+ \. F- George Pompidou
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( t: a+ E5 C+ x* A/ o' w9 fTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
5 [0 F0 e. [! R. D. y1 Z6 l" C6 E: r- 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.
- Anonymous

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.
- k; Y' O2 c2 U& _: P; `9 O- Andy Rooney

In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
- Richard Power

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943

* z8 T  |( `4 a" |# 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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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
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" v# R  c9 b' A" gThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
- 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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# k) e2 s; I+ {1 SThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
- Jeremy S. Anderson

/ \- d$ V- ]  M/ `2 C  c4 \One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard

' R* r  i- K& n# [1 EAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
- David Thornburg
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" m$ A; Q  d3 U( y9 n4 r' S0 lThose 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.
- l9 B# n6 f9 J* M3 \% l- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word

Build early and build often.
- Proprietary developer adage

/ T) i/ o- {0 Y5 O; w. j" _; nRelease 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

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.
1 }2 Y; D& v/ h/ y3 q* ^0 l! m- 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.
" y9 ?( a. i- L! g7 |6 ^- Margaret Thatcher
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
0 `0 y: k3 U5 I, i# |9 I- 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.
+ O+ H1 T& X! r' Y9 C/ x0 y  M) C- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

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% g( E* v% H4 x# V- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969

4 e7 C, U1 g  e" YAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
+ M$ p2 m) e* v& X- M2 \- Arthur C. Clarke

5 c$ |, C( R; L  a9 lAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
+ g7 `& M3 J2 c9 D( E( |3 C, _9 h1 q- Gregory Benford
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
( |6 d6 ^' W( O" J7 J- Alan J. Perlis
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
, d4 o# C: I. h5 j- Thomas Edison

7 d0 N4 ]) Z4 E2 u5 f( |Get 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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4 M' v+ \  H! M" b& S  E4 tThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
- Senator Bob Dole
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( ]& `! w9 ~3 Y; ]  RComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
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8 x2 G) F) |% V  a2 R2 Z 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.
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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" d1 a5 f- N9 _& g6 S( V: R; LAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
- 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?
- Al Gore on Y2K
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0 |6 ^. J2 a- c5 S/ QThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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+ L& h* _1 L0 [+ x1 xThe 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
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Windows is just DOS in drag.
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
- s& M3 ]0 V9 Z7 x9 ]7 m. \  S3 J4 J- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977

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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison
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3 S; ?: w$ i: b2 K8 w) ?4 P  bEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D