Fun Quotations

OliveOil

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
- T.S. Elliot

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- i3 V3 |; G3 O- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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. ]9 C# n" ?5 L& eThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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! a- G$ g2 \, \" C% fThere 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 t# y7 d! u% y- dTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
2 y* F# D+ L/ E; [) W- 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.
- Andy Rooney

" f; v/ \7 Z3 R0 J. z+ z) gIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
- Richard Power
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  P3 B8 e5 r7 n1 o6 ?I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
2 |$ C/ i( [- Z1 g, o* |- 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.
- Scott Adams

1 z8 i& k5 ~* H+ X# tIn 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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6 E0 x5 a. f. f6 \1 LIf 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.
6 M* N3 L- s* P5 j- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
- Anonymous

6 f7 p, \; P3 X& h7 _There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
- Jeremy S. Anderson
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
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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

% h! O) q: d/ k- i' QSave early, save often.
4 L' s# T, q* q/ \# C/ t- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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  C4 W8 Y8 N! QBuild early and build often.
- Proprietary developer adage

Release early and release often.
+ ^/ m4 G* ^  n" c- 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.
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  c; J/ @+ S6 Y- m% rIf 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

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

( |, e; q, q; q* W. lThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
- Jerry Olson
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+ y! p! O. o, R- M: O* iThe 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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7 _  H; w5 K( Q* EEverything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

2 i6 W9 _) l) O" J7 bGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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2 H% y( e1 r, ?2 E+ O( _* b6 jAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
& j1 U- a( c; g2 K( r, E* K( O- Arthur C. Clarke

+ l2 j) ]( W; v6 D3 M- o1 L1 zAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
! y1 N9 c; r- Z4 z6 c- Gregory Benford
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" w& d' T: t! ^% W/ wNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.
- Anonymous

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
% K/ _( ~% p4 r2 h- Alan J. Perlis

1 Q3 \# n5 ]1 D, D/ K" x- kI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
, {/ G( _. U: y! P, o5 W- Thomas Edison

* Q9 t2 V) L/ dGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
1 Z/ h; I4 R) n+ h, J- 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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7 E  O& k0 c  [. o+ TThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
- Senator Bob Dole
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5 D7 U; e: N# w0 _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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5 M6 O2 |6 h1 x1 C; o' d$ ZTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
4 Q6 l* k. i4 ]4 e3 ]# s# q- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos

How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
) k) p2 O' l- p' v* I- A- Al Gore on Y2K

; M# k3 `. j% @( b. @/ t9 RThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
2 V  }0 F; g" x, P% @0 k- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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0 }6 t+ J% t- p; t2 BThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
- Linus Torvalds

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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7 s5 [% H% L; t$ R& q5 i' n! zWindows is just DOS in drag.
- Anonymous

" ], ~+ e( }2 s3 @6 N4 UThere 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

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