Fun Quotations

OliveOil

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
! ^, M& L5 j+ P- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
- T.S. Elliot

640K ought to be enough for anybody.
1 ]' A$ I4 [! p. e# M- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- B. F. Skinner

6 c! @9 _2 b/ w0 T! z( s- h6 [& x) @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.
  K. ]$ \& ~4 m" I4 s. s! x0 b- George Pompidou

; \$ _/ K$ Y2 \4 \* Y9 k* ^! UTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
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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
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7 |8 S" Q6 W* w/ \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.
- Andy Rooney
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) g6 a3 I# y5 I: Y9 N+ ]In 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.
: Y$ r3 u/ b" A  E" Q5 d- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
" Y9 y6 f  N9 D* o/ F5 g- Scott Adams
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! D5 Q# P6 x/ }) }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.
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* m, r( |6 X( {0 }8 B7 JThe 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
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" J0 ]! C. H) R, I0 [3 K- yThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
' G/ z) l' P1 q  W# [/ ?- Jeremy S. Anderson

% S% d& d: G& s* U; \3 b/ BOne 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.
- David Thornburg

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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, T- E. \4 O( W# t0 O( U  z8 FSave early, save often.
' R) j0 u/ U$ [7 w- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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  _3 j' Q( G" O) _' x3 vBuild early and build often.
! C0 ]* }6 s$ J- V+ @" X& a- Proprietary developer adage

2 ?+ w* `) g- gRelease early and release often.
( z7 {/ V( M) G! p$ F# ?9 X- Open source developer adage
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$ |. U& h/ X" q! v2 \+ l1 H6 {We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
- 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
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, f1 M4 c/ `5 F) t0 L) B; EThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
( Z4 T2 s1 _7 S) s- Margaret Thatcher

The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
0 {5 ~" u- D+ O  m; |" m6 I5 c- Jerry Olson
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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.
. W# g, r, l: o" p9 M- Porterfield
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( }! V5 E6 F8 B  C4 Z% IEverything that can be invented has been invented.
( G+ b6 k4 C, M7 C- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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6 k7 n% ~: F7 P  OAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
. c2 U; F6 O; ?# s2 G1 E5 h- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
* \7 B- G( I6 I2 P! G4 w- Gregory Benford

Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
( u( y/ i4 Q# M6 N: E' D9 E- Alan J. Perlis

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
( I0 b+ H9 ^) P+ R; f- Thomas Edison
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# W4 \' l' w9 n& E6 A( h) mGet 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

/ n! N5 \0 K" ]. k1 nThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
- Senator Bob Dole
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& ~- n; K7 V  g7 HComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
0 Y" ~+ n- q9 I& M- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy

9 ]* y/ j# o, @, n0 kTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
- 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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5 L* r2 w" |0 n% [* V. xHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
- Al Gore on Y2K

. \( s; {3 o, O5 ?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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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.
- n6 U- o/ J. L( n3 o! H- Linus Torvalds

Windows is just DOS in drag.
- Anonymous

" z8 ^) z- l9 P* IThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
* g6 g( P  l; y  Y- 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.
2 W" b- q* S3 m" {& \" q* }+ b- Thomas Edison

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