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?
) W  N" n- G& G! A) C9 c9 x- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
3 i6 `+ N0 {2 d3 \2 O- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- B. F. Skinner

% E1 [7 h9 f/ \' F' _2 y: \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
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7 Y9 c! c7 c1 x  HTechnology 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

- Q4 [& i9 g) K( ?" J) @4 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
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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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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
5 f; y* O# l6 E( p- K- i- Richard Power
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* @1 J6 u' ^- T8 B* U3 F, wI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943

4 ]1 e8 {# O) l8 M$ W4 e3 r) GIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
- Scott Adams

7 R9 N: H0 {% E: F4 dIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
- Anonymous

4 G, C  k$ i9 ^7 N0 H' n- EIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
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+ L5 M: f3 G( q3 N* ?6 m% gThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
( `4 E2 ]) v) x# p! |4 c- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric

At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
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There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
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- Q" C; G; b  j, `One 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.
" V; w8 l7 a% C# Q7 x6 D7 D- David Thornburg

! [! i+ C! @3 WThose 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.
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Build early and build often.
- Proprietary developer adage
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Release 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.
- Carl Sagan
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+ S' i8 |. h5 U0 t" cIf 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

. ]1 y4 a- _+ B2 x+ j, I2 \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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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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, m; V  m8 C; vEverything that can be invented has been invented.
4 ]  K4 J) K5 z3 `. O- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
3 I# v$ M8 d2 k" E* d# R+ h7 q  K  h- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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5 E6 N7 C% S, u/ p9 \Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
( O* k+ p9 Q! p- Arthur C. Clarke
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) G/ N7 K8 R) Z2 \. |$ @Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
2 _, B" ]9 {2 `: l$ I! m- 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.
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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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- B8 b" f2 n0 `: nGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
2 v8 v& h8 a- \- j8 ?6 e5 L, l- 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

, a& v8 u/ a/ G) k7 \- FThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
- Senator Bob Dole

Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
% y2 k/ o3 J; K- u) J$ ~- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
7 j8 ~  P5 s6 J, ^- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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+ j; X. Z, O) W- t$ s  _Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
5 i7 Z1 [! X6 o  T( K- Andrew Heller, IBM

( M% w: h9 Y, V5 K1 nAOL 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?
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6 }8 ^' k4 N# k: _The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
6 h' |! i0 C- N* ~+ g; s- Sydney Brenner in 1927

/ C* g" e2 n8 y" XThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
' C- g$ M7 _- N) \  y- Linus Torvalds

/ A% C# ^8 i/ B! GTo 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

1 t8 H: L! m1 a% p4 gWindows 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

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