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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# B; l, w# L4 P4 J- S/ hWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
7 j4 T, C8 a+ S3 x- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
2 ^5 M  F- f; D; q- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- B. F. Skinner
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5 U. U: J$ [' X0 ~/ YThere 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.
+ T% s7 O5 a5 E$ O- Anonymous

7 _8 d$ K( K. e. C. GFor 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.
. j8 s: N6 I4 \0 j2 K- Andy Rooney
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6 M3 Z# E9 G  lIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
- Richard Power

+ L/ R. _1 \, B3 t+ uI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
) L$ Z9 M" y, Q0 m# d$ K- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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) q* j  x; N# G- B, dIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
- b3 z# J; y2 r- R: R- Scott Adams

2 G! v9 \* c& I$ v0 q& \/ TIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
  q) A  V6 \0 J* d- 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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* q1 y1 y: K* b1 T" B0 f0 R) a, `  DThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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/ v: E3 |* k6 A4 ]. M* H0 wAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
- Anonymous
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' @! ~) _0 N2 c+ ~1 g. O! zThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
/ [7 ~* _9 f/ ~+ g- Jeremy S. Anderson

3 ~! `- j" z/ C' {0 f1 f3 D6 jOne 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.
- David Thornburg
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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.
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- s9 n+ ~  \: N) `# \& wSave early, save often.
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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8 i7 `4 `& ]' ]1 n$ z3 [* WBuild early and build often.
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Release early and release often.
5 p" G: {& Q) q) h' B, j# v" Z' O- Open source developer adage
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
  u# u9 R1 m, e& ^& C5 L- 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
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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.
- Margaret Thatcher
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* z' d4 j1 @2 p. o- dThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
9 u! n/ l$ v5 n. x- Jerry Olson
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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

  c! w, z  Y; [/ K+ k2 eEverything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969

Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
3 |3 A$ T" W. E- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
& O6 ~/ j' ]" A+ ?2 {- Gregory Benford

' x0 `6 A9 e2 S* ONever let a computer know you're in a hurry.
- Anonymous
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
' t. F, W* Q$ G. f- Alan J. Perlis

7 y; T8 `; j/ Z* K/ T7 vI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
: V$ ~# G" w0 B* J: ~/ F4 t5 b- 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.
- f2 }$ d: H4 e6 X- 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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' A* W% N/ S3 B- q2 G6 zThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
- Senator Bob Dole
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( e/ M0 A8 @' b9 WComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
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( R- K; ], j8 e4 r From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
& D' G6 n+ w8 l- 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.
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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

# s9 b% I7 j5 f- a$ H" dHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
- Al Gore on Y2K

4 N; j. q0 v6 I0 A% g4 L# m! iThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
3 G$ V) m' M4 g8 I+ M1 B, Z- Sydney Brenner in 1927

' c" [+ G, N) ?) b/ `0 ?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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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.
. Z$ _6 H" }! X- Linus Torvalds

4 B0 Z( u4 W6 uWindows is just DOS in drag.
- Anonymous

# J7 S+ I1 M/ K8 ?4 J9 QThere 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

, ?( z6 c2 C" O8 ^) IEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D