Fun Quotations

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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
# J" o6 T1 c; `& b& c' ?+ a- Andrew S. Tannenbaum

2 I7 ~9 b) M7 E: A6 [Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
: J/ W; ?' w2 I! o9 E  w. z) p- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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& Q' P/ i' W# u4 L- \: O0 CThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
+ `  m( |% z2 {) Z- B. F. Skinner
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# e( q" B$ \! S2 [5 @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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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.
& d( U- w9 ]( Z9 n- Anonymous

* b  }2 }1 A7 U* h) v: U) hFor 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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& O) M$ K  q1 h! z3 z: _- k+ uComputers 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.
# y6 ^) G. s! ~* I- Andy Rooney

; i7 Y! T5 P! X  F  oIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
- Richard Power
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, N- O: w; o0 {' B; o" P/ s5 b' `I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
1 m3 K2 D9 `! K5 k: u# u& N$ d, F1 w- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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4 @* S/ E2 @* eIf 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

; ^& ~( a  I" k$ h( @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

9 T; v4 d4 j7 [9 E# |At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
- Anonymous
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; Z3 c2 P0 V8 Z5 TThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
1 T# q9 b9 H* t* `% Q3 @- Jeremy S. Anderson

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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( s5 f! `( J: H$ z% O% y: Q" L0 cAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
" B6 O% o0 h7 y: n* o+ S# p) F- 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.
- Anonymous
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Save early, save often.
+ X# U5 @$ a7 o0 ~- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often.
6 x+ z* c, B6 @# x, n8 a- Proprietary developer adage

% C+ _4 h+ X- ^1 |- r8 oRelease early and release often.
- 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

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.
  y* W( X( ~7 f% x" [9 Y- Anonymous
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There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
6 v/ @1 x: K- M  W: X- Margaret Thatcher
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$ V' |8 `) {' l! ]The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
8 U0 {1 K6 h: T9 v- [- 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.
8 I  k2 \/ h7 b0 ?- Porterfield
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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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7 u7 Q* A4 V* z' K7 bGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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5 @% ?1 v# x2 I) _' MAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
) O; P8 X3 t7 S9 c# _$ M; j- Gregory Benford

5 y7 b8 j2 _% R4 n/ {Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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. O1 E: w- I2 J: Q# c4 R+ y* DA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
- Alan J. Perlis

& o+ }$ R2 I8 x- L! MI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
9 J1 t! q; h$ B* n, _3 {- Thomas Edison
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. c$ `7 o5 x! GGet 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.
+ a/ n6 r* n9 J2 E5 l7 k4 T- Senator Bob Dole
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; i9 d, Q; |/ [- }& j" X/ m& a( jComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
& Q7 ]  t2 e2 t, V7 W; m5 s3 M- Popular Mechanics, 1949

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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Technology 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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How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
8 ^- t: Z# b; k6 W+ i& @- Al Gore on Y2K
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. c- E9 Z  f7 R* j- Z) uThe 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.
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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
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3 E, T( b7 j7 w6 n" mWindows is just DOS in drag.
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" m9 l" N  `2 aThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
2 r2 h) C& c* z0 s- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977

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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
: T5 U) A5 P4 m* C1 v* B- Thomas Edison

% e, O1 @7 H# I1 D8 t2 V( KEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D