Fun Quotations

OliveOil

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
: s3 t. ]' Q- @- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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" T6 d$ ?) u6 L; XWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
- 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.
: m  O0 [, a$ s- B. F. Skinner

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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2 k; ]* l/ _6 R* H, q" y2 D. p& \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.
9 {: h/ u+ V# k. |- 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

! ?, ?; V* ^! E2 q; {- }. ^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.
+ O5 A0 g  e! y- Andy Rooney

5 A5 g( W! B9 y6 I; X7 ]4 f( ZIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
: J$ l$ }4 I! Y5 I# F* z- Richard Power

4 |$ x* v9 U$ l7 s/ _( dI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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# a+ [  Q2 P& O& ~& tIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
! m- D# ]. a9 z+ ^1 Z; A+ r4 d- 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.
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1 P, k7 W8 b( G( [6 Q& TIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
- Bradley's Bromide

- m0 u7 b8 f/ T8 g3 `; X2 U$ _# wThe 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.
- Anonymous

There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
! \4 W, G& U  I& J- 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
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
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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.
- Anonymous
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, x$ R4 E0 O$ t% B& m$ nSave early, save often.
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word

- `' g: W* f: y$ k. U, sBuild early and build often.
3 L; ~  M) K$ }- Proprietary developer adage

$ Q% o( s* [/ Y- x, H  KRelease early and release often.
- y/ q6 B/ i) \% B- Open source developer adage

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
, K. z- K, S; E( D- 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.
1 z) f- m+ {0 w) w& k- Anonymous

( s/ C/ G4 K- c2 ?& y/ wThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
7 e/ B5 w  ~4 e/ d( q- Margaret Thatcher
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! e& a( o. q( d) a$ `% ^+ E) UThe 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.
- Porterfield
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
4 }! t. j  b# F3 i% U0 g% i/ E& b- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

4 }/ M$ S  o- z) JGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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$ Q9 M; x' r( _- C' G$ s, n6 SAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
' P4 s  v8 ^& d$ @! ?4 }- Arthur C. Clarke

9 z5 |! {7 {; K5 |" d, I+ q; ?Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
- Gregory Benford

Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
9 z' ?  M& u$ ]- Anonymous
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
) t4 b" J0 D. x! }8 |- Alan J. Perlis

/ H5 ^8 v# A8 n: FI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
3 Q  h# L8 W' |5 D: f* E' k1 V- a- Thomas Edison
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, P9 O% h3 ^2 H3 t5 q+ J. eGet 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.
5 {# i% Z9 Y9 q5 ~5 [% `- Senator Bob Dole
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- }- s7 O/ k4 L8 U7 fComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
2 W# G$ t; |' T- J# l( n- 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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8 C1 X# p3 d/ L  b2 R: O" iTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
: |+ n# L( Y" U$ s- Andrew Heller, IBM
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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

How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
( B: {! `4 U1 g% o, N$ d- Al Gore on Y2K

  t8 w) O8 @* V# A) \1 X' \The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
1 K2 y/ x* E; S2 F- Sydney Brenner in 1927

4 |% s, B& L/ D$ K1 Z1 FThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
/ \' P2 l8 y! x  {- 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

9 ~* k3 T, }- H' r" V' S5 d; H) NWindows is just DOS in drag.
- Anonymous
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
8 Q# m. s/ y, R# o8 ]& N- 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.
8 N3 F8 |+ i6 b) r+ ^2 T) V: G- Thomas Edison

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