Fun Quotations

OliveOil

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
- n; g" V! @0 ^  `3 n6 F7 Q- Andrew S. Tannenbaum

  U4 K) \: m' o3 B) aWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
8 c  a' v. }& F- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- 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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% y& Y6 g5 g2 S* J/ U" Y- l) C4 O9 NThere 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.
: ?# A# L% Q+ p8 u1 E# l- George Pompidou
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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.
- Anonymous
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; V5 L' C9 ~1 ?0 n+ Y; {5 qFor 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.
8 {7 u% m% C$ s6 z9 T- Anonymous

. O. W2 K+ T7 C) X( T( 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.
* K5 M4 U7 O' L6 |7 O7 d- Andy Rooney

1 ^5 v0 l1 V( c) }In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
- Richard Power

$ T: M3 I  [, GI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
; C# N0 D( M6 ]* p3 @2 V/ k- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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5 ^$ m2 \% |7 `: ?) eIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
- Scott Adams
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! I0 d/ U! H& M0 D$ ~8 w- s' u8 TIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
- Anonymous

* E. ~9 Z  i# XIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
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0 E& y; f5 N5 S- L1 jThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
, Y3 [7 w, q, c8 s  s9 J% Y5 `- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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( E% Y4 B7 n3 g& KAt 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.
6 k/ F/ F, E3 G" p4 M- R2 V' I! [- Jeremy S. Anderson
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* S$ k, _& M1 v# C# g9 COne 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.
' w0 B6 t9 E9 m8 Z- David Thornburg

3 a$ m) t$ A" S) v$ U* gThose 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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) G! t, O9 [1 ~Save early, save often.
% P! u9 W6 k9 {6 H; ]- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word

: t0 F) m$ l$ o1 V* |5 ?Build early and build often.
- Proprietary developer adage

Release early and release often.
- ?6 k* y8 j  l1 W: h# q1 W+ y! a- Open source developer adage
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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

. \9 e9 M! V0 S; q! SIf 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

' ~* g  C5 W6 U# m) ]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

The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
8 T4 Y. [+ w3 A0 f# L4 A( H& z# @- Jerry Olson
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! ?! @7 G, C8 n% @3 P* _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

" m8 ~3 z* h* X) T, x' l# Q3 NEverything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

9 ?0 r1 ?0 x% P% W- b: {GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969

- m6 I4 L1 H# M2 G: d5 ^Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
% e% c; r9 L: \0 s# n2 P7 W( y' p- Arthur C. Clarke

Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
- Gregory Benford

Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
  a$ O- [5 q, i* G9 C1 G- Anonymous
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1 k2 s, J/ a, OA 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.
- Thomas Edison

/ ^, B% i$ L9 m8 C2 _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
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' J" |; z: l6 I( K5 u* xThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
$ n0 f( M3 n& H4 K. C- Senator Bob Dole

$ e0 @% f; U2 }: X3 V7 y+ e& ~Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
1 H8 ?* w$ b) \- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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# B. X4 w  p; }; @, [3 H From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy

Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
6 ]- E2 w+ ?7 Z8 ]; X) Q; \' U- 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
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How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
2 p4 x9 Z. o+ X2 z- Al Gore on Y2K
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
- R7 S' T: N! h" t* F3 F3 y  w) ?- 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.
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Windows is just DOS in drag.
- Anonymous
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' n; B1 E/ Q2 x0 u2 G0 t! B; s& lThere 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.
& O; F6 k* S/ a- Thomas Edison

( h- G, {: }. v  sEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D