Fun Quotations

OliveOil

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
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1 X7 {' @, H) ~) M2 e! m; e. OWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
' Z$ s. K) G) @( s8 q( w; Z- T.S. Elliot

% }( p# N2 G3 X9 m640K ought to be enough for anybody.
" }! Z" T9 m# v& l! x- V; k# U  V- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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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.
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2 E6 j7 G! k  M# p  G& AFor 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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& |' _& O8 W" b. b3 ^8 iComputers 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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5 u5 [- u% n5 QIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
4 x4 l. Z3 t8 m6 o5 h# R8 N- Richard Power

5 G1 Y; |. ~2 l0 xI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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9 j. ]- j: ?. \2 nIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
2 X8 v4 s  L6 L/ I2 E2 z; c+ S- Scott Adams
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1 F, ^3 L/ z; d9 i. Q+ M, gIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
- Bradley's Bromide
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9 o' u9 s7 x& O6 z- _! A% B# iThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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$ `* _$ F6 o- H, `' T% v  D. }At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
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4 z1 {6 @! p2 e! R3 fThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
6 [7 @& P: W5 x$ n9 Y5 `- Jeremy S. Anderson

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard

# Y" I, n) b3 X7 r& j: KAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
- David Thornburg

, K8 f$ Y- H" ^' M; P7 f. g6 ?0 rThose 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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( Y, b9 z" y2 R" ^) h+ zBuild early and build often.
- Proprietary developer adage
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0 ?* {5 |7 ~: Z& vRelease early and release often.
7 Q  |# Y/ \: v/ i3 z  y9 F/ a- Open source developer adage
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' D, r* |7 f5 N. \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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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.
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3 J( w2 w  U+ z1 k0 B7 |$ OThere 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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0 w. U8 ^& [" _The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
$ O- @7 [8 n; V* i9 c5 P7 M" \5 p- Jerry Olson

" P4 C8 U" D( R# qThe 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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Everything 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
) [* }$ \/ z# ~6 q: `- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969

Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
3 J& z8 c& a4 h/ o) p: R9 f; D& _- Arthur C. Clarke

; e8 m3 A6 V2 f7 |6 PAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
6 t# z1 t7 D5 B* O0 k- Gregory Benford
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Never 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.
; }1 `% w  o( o) V+ c- Alan J. Perlis

1 t! B' h9 y( j0 O) r+ |I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
, P! o8 p( x! [" R9 x- Thomas Edison

% U% i" g0 P4 O- f9 f; aGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
) x' x: i3 v- c: J" u: P- 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

The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
- Senator Bob Dole
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) y9 {# F: |4 \9 R! w0 h: [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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; P. j, p: B* d% R& G6 B From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
) }5 l# A' B$ \; J) k( T- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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8 i3 W# ]8 I7 p( [7 WTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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3 f) d5 u) ?$ G1 r1 Y6 u$ x: b& F! L$ ~AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
7 d: G5 l/ F+ q& l- 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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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
- Sydney Brenner in 1927

The 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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Windows is just DOS in drag.
- Anonymous

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
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connie

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison
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Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D