Fun Quotations

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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
2 I* u7 I; M; u& [3 I8 b1 q- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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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.
- 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.
- Anonymous
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2 H  K! j% q+ y& B- R" qFor 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.
* p5 J- h4 U, ]1 h. _- Andy Rooney
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/ D) P. u( k) k( K4 JIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
3 y( }/ y9 V9 ~! J. b4 A- T- Richard Power
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* W) @( U$ z+ V( sI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943

3 X% o1 J- h  O2 A( B( MIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
( J! v  }2 L4 K- 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.
$ P9 z% p+ {) i# U4 ]- Anonymous
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( K7 S( W$ ]- k7 `4 q+ u% LIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
- Bradley's Bromide
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
4 b/ H2 J# _" ]# s( v+ U- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric

( N" N. [/ _, E  bAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
- Anonymous
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% y( Z- g+ B5 s+ oThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
- Jeremy S. Anderson

1 z! y: S- {0 ^5 V, ^One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard

- y0 _/ p* n* @0 f* @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.
6 A4 H9 h9 H' P* T3 E; g' y- Anonymous
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: _4 g5 s) u, D" G7 w* _& ]8 c3 {Save early, save often.
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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! v) v! Y/ Y- \4 xBuild early and build often.
- Proprietary developer adage
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5 |8 ]  {8 R- V. T- a, WRelease early and release often.
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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.
$ `. ~  ?8 C6 D- 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.
5 E' t" N& z5 j- 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.
2 I2 O) Z. N) V- S2 U- Margaret Thatcher
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
- 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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) d  ]6 O* O5 E# a# ~8 n% ^Everything that can be invented has been invented.
! b5 u( G" M$ M  o2 I- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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/ V( i; ]/ @+ {, [/ QGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
4 r2 X$ Y3 @9 @" E% z- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
9 I' J4 \" S& R4 D; F/ ^6 T# U- Gregory Benford

; B6 g! l2 c0 ?# ?: h! hNever 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.
' c7 v# g# T" B) N2 N- Alan J. Perlis
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0 S% |) Z: u# m! WI 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.
- 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

9 Y; t/ B( H# i4 C8 g1 FThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
- Senator Bob Dole

/ F  p8 ?0 H( h- o$ q; ]. GComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
- Popular Mechanics, 1949

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
; Y9 i5 z+ j, m) w- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy

Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
6 z- b% N* @5 f' z- Andrew Heller, IBM

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?
/ p( u8 c) _/ f. m! T- Al Gore on Y2K
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1 g( \2 l1 Z8 [The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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7 m+ j- A" L( N( x& a, k0 T5 oThe 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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" K2 i! o* E+ `" y0 U  F+ d) \There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
) D5 C# ~* V) M8 g- 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.
+ @. v  B4 C5 D4 q' g- Thomas Edison
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$ ^. f  S$ f$ Z) D% i6 m7 qEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D