Fun Quotations

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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
8 D$ U' g7 q) R. e0 K$ G5 l, P- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
6 w  [- u' M* O- T.S. Elliot
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* {- R! G6 h2 i1 Y9 ?3 x640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- B. F. Skinner
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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.
) |% R! a8 y! p) @- George Pompidou

4 d7 Z1 I/ s- v9 M. WTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
* l2 R/ ?  h. o& \0 N* s- Anonymous

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.
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- ?$ a1 C5 R. C2 jComputers 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.
' w9 D* B6 e# o0 ^$ @4 E6 a/ c) ^/ Y- Andy Rooney
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5 [+ W% y5 n' V# SIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- 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.
0 d) F, [6 k5 {' P- Y" F8 H- Scott Adams

In 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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# I( q9 M& y9 H- `If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
- Bradley's Bromide
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: b% H6 c/ N& s+ `/ {  d- QThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
- 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.
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. G* c# D+ [1 n0 c; i1 sThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
- Jeremy S. Anderson

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.
) G  r- a, l9 ?1 e; T$ u- 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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5 s$ Y: ?# e$ c5 m' q2 e/ j! H5 HSave early, save often.
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word

7 N0 q* B4 X& XBuild early and build often.
6 g1 {$ F* p7 u% ~- E0 J) {- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often.
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5 H. W) Q. F6 j$ U; U. Z+ N" fWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
7 e8 B  N3 f; \- 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.
5 a& D: q. x6 Y' S6 @' i( B- Anonymous
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$ m: |! L7 ~/ fThere 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.
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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.
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- E* ^/ G: I: {/ e' nEverything that can be invented has been invented.
: i7 `  u$ z  G- `* g- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

) H1 j6 s& d+ R* jGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
- Gregory Benford

4 v5 v3 P2 l' W# TNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.
- Anonymous

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
- Alan J. Perlis
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" M7 i" h* F! |& _5 [  X0 |I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
+ z, Z- ^/ s* P( o* E2 [# z- 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

The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
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Computers 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.
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy

. h, D9 L9 o, XTechnology 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

, s( `5 l; \* @7 W. h/ U0 cHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
: ^" b! r  Y1 C7 s$ D0 ?- _- Al Gore on Y2K

1 k7 o4 d. m- i' Z9 ZThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
* R+ L/ `1 F0 e4 t* }4 R- Linus Torvalds

  u6 _3 t' w8 n  a4 ETo 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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3 M2 h/ G! |* f- u& g/ LWindows is just DOS in drag.
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& A8 k1 @9 x5 M5 I; MThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
( |) n0 f6 D' E0 ?, B0 ^- Thomas Edison

) [* r' j+ J1 f! KEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D