Fun Quotations

OliveOil

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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  s7 G* @5 U0 u) PWhere 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.
5 Y0 `8 b1 ~) o# C- B. F. Skinner
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' R3 c1 b+ u5 H& ~+ RThere 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.
7 `1 p+ ~0 A, B( B, D9 n7 S6 J* I- Anonymous
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0 ~1 k! U; i; |1 u+ F" S8 fFor 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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  }* ~' y* n' q8 k) A$ zComputers 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.
( Z' m! Q  L& u5 v- Andy Rooney
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
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! h( [( s- a* A0 L9 \; kI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943

( y8 e2 I2 |5 Y1 fIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
/ Y5 e1 f: M/ T; T: Z* _- 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.
- Anonymous
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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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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric

$ t' T* V! s8 o$ J* }" VAt 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.
- Jeremy S. Anderson

  b  |1 f4 m* _$ K4 IOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard

4 N: C3 [. S. {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.
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9 K  [9 _+ b8 v4 }; @3 t' G  YSave early, save often.
; ^  s: K/ z0 {4 P- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word

Build early and build often.
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Release early and release often.
- Open source developer adage
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7 y3 M! P+ \" Y, T1 c* _We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
6 J; S- Q  Z4 ]; y; F! X- 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.
- Anonymous

# X/ E7 _, r7 l- p4 lThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
4 E) y/ `0 W1 k; t- q. h- Jerry Olson

) `- F9 j. G3 V* fThe 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
7 V$ m: o7 y5 T9 H5 E- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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- n7 s+ I" \- E7 P8 L6 d: F# ^$ mAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke
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' W4 d% Q/ f6 Z6 Z1 \) v/ ^Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
- Anonymous
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4 g/ u+ Z: z9 Q& g& B  {6 ?A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
- Alan J. Perlis

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
  ?, D" J3 ^' K5 x- 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.
# w+ \+ ?3 C! ]  J. K3 p* R, y- 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
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
- Senator Bob Dole
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" x! }  K# D0 c$ M. ~; uComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
) S$ j- w5 Z  I1 n- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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9 M' A0 o& `8 O! W From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
* U: d- w7 t" ?# U! \3 Q0 e- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy

Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
- Andrew Heller, IBM

* Q2 X) f! U" W! P+ UAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos

- h* U: G4 W1 ~% u# }How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
- Al Gore on Y2K
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4 T0 ]; F: l' ]9 F* [% ^The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
- Sydney Brenner in 1927

. s6 S, `# u4 A& ?0 Q2 |The 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

Windows is just DOS in drag.
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
2 E2 t( s5 B5 g# k& _5 @. v- 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

. X$ F3 `% J% P+ G! }  w. oEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D