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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( A+ f" I; x8 G& B3 i, j7 G* ?Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
- T.S. Elliot
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. S, \0 E* p  m5 Z4 ~( }/ ~640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- Q# P: ~( P( ^: K: f( g- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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, T; ~4 I3 i4 nThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- B. F. Skinner

8 H& P# r0 E9 AThere 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

6 F/ L) N) v7 o  H& G0 u, @, yTechnology 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 b+ `. r" [1 n- Anonymous
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- W* y+ F3 R/ Q- m8 nFor 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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: R1 I; e9 P. w- Z$ B# I/ rComputers 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.
/ C6 m) p5 k& Q- Andy Rooney

0 }( m. ]$ _) v* E* DIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
- h# [5 F$ T7 O0 c, F- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
) j# D& [5 m$ Z: H- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943

+ ~. s  P0 D' n  L/ H1 LIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
- Scott Adams

: @. x  N# @" a( h2 uIn 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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) p, g, {3 Y2 d# nIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
- Bradley's Bromide
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) y8 x( f1 M4 f' }  PThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric

At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
- Anonymous
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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

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- @" x  r: N" B2 S! D1 u, X- Elbert Hubbard

Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
6 S2 y; d7 ?3 s- 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.
# K( a1 Y2 Y$ r- Anonymous
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Save early, save often.
' J& }# }, c( M' ?# |& W- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often.
- x0 [( i: S9 i5 ?0 y- Proprietary developer adage
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9 j* g8 @/ f% ^Release early and release often.
8 m  L/ j0 J( z! D+ M- Open source developer adage

1 p2 w  D# o" P6 J, |We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
* y; P. `) ]7 O6 ]% l' ?: m. i0 h- 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.
2 F/ l* J" m! D6 z* y- Anonymous

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
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
- 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.
- Porterfield
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
4 _% [+ G2 y6 U5 X- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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5 V+ j/ r9 G' `5 V1 S+ oAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
8 [+ m( @: t0 d5 e2 u+ h- Arthur C. Clarke

' l) x5 r/ ^& i+ jAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
- Gregory Benford
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% Y, w. |0 ^4 I  kNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.
- Anonymous

5 U$ w2 l+ G0 o, R0 i; j. N0 pA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
- Alan J. Perlis
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+ C) |, J6 c8 U0 v0 X& sI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
# F4 {) q. G3 N5 n- 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.
- 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.
8 R$ z/ {" J2 M7 |6 X( z* n- Senator Bob Dole

Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
6 R/ g) g0 A" T3 s- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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% \5 J" T, B2 r/ x 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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, ]# L* I8 k2 K# q( q6 TTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
1 A! g! g2 z* W/ T* T# o  O- Andrew Heller, IBM

AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos

  D' N! H* G+ v2 v3 R6 KHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
* n: S8 V7 c, ^1 \# F$ E0 }, }9 m8 n- Al Gore on Y2K
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( k8 n$ f; P- O/ ?The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
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+ I8 `  V# V3 o" z- }+ P$ ZThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
% m, D1 b. F1 v8 z2 k% b0 \' H2 I- 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

Windows is just DOS in drag.
- Anonymous

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
) X% z, S9 Y$ v, Q* |, g3 c) s- 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

; ^8 v; g& s! B% WEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D