Fun Quotations

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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
' L4 d2 C" F3 M0 X$ d- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981

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
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( \; |% r6 d5 k* |* |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

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

/ J: P! L% {+ L5 S2 t. Z3 h, nComputers 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

  E% x& v3 E$ s3 V8 I+ xIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
# l" B6 a7 W( a( u$ l: i6 D( b- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943

. d- S# r# w/ `. C: o( tIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
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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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) }: F& E& A- g; J  u* aIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
- Bradley's Bromide

$ g& x9 i% F* PThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric

* g# i" g3 e% w. M0 ~- Y, S9 {. ?At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
- Anonymous
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/ ?/ k/ c- u2 e& P" |; y0 q; g$ XThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
- ~5 d6 u  ?* b7 S- Jeremy S. Anderson
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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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9 L* }3 B" l# {Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
3 F0 C8 d/ S- ?/ Y7 x* Z- 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.
3 ?* D3 q8 @& D8 u- Anonymous
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Save early, save often.
0 a# M& I9 o' X/ G0 T: N* f% l- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word

Build early and build often.
- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often.
- 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.
- Carl Sagan

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 v' X- ]4 ^( F- l, T3 c4 dThere 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

  N' @9 k, k. O  e/ FThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
2 ?: s* F4 V1 l4 s, T8 o$ y* b- Jerry Olson
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1 w, T* m" d4 B/ L8 LThe 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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' ]. k% p7 _# ~: fEverything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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) o8 B2 s! c/ q0 a' BGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
% J5 a2 y/ q9 z7 ?: I* p- u- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969

Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke

Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
8 e1 ~' f' W# X* _; B! v/ S- Gregory Benford
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: v5 u1 q4 j( v; l; INever 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.
- Alan J. Perlis
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, {: t; G* h: E# V# ]I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
# o1 A" l+ T, h7 ^" }# R- Thomas Edison

Get your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
; Y0 m2 u5 m: Y5 C3 g- 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

& L8 s# |' y# O2 b% Q+ ~The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
% u- i! M% m; W& Y# V0 x/ u* n- Senator Bob Dole

/ i4 s1 E- M& S7 b# m' I: L1 mComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
- Popular Mechanics, 1949

5 n0 ?: h( t% e% ^5 N& p From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
& e3 Q) V/ u1 h8 V9 @; F9 E- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy

) d/ B. s& M& h2 S# s2 }) ]8 m+ gTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
% J4 o/ K, h* S) O+ L- Andrew Heller, IBM

; b; `4 `  A  i4 VAOL 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?
- Al Gore on Y2K

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
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; Y- T  [, V7 @7 ]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

# ]2 a# S) p0 }5 H: P0 O5 a" \Windows is just DOS in drag.
- Anonymous

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
# K; v- M" J  K' p- 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
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Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D