Fun Quotations

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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum

) W6 W  a( E8 k, T5 VWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- 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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) ?( |* ]5 K$ T5 I, x2 Z8 jTechnology 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.
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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.
; V5 E! A$ O7 P" n( d/ s- Andy Rooney
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* H& J8 Z- ?: ^) [In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
5 F8 \3 A) m6 z" E/ G- Richard Power

' }$ {/ \4 T% Y7 X& C" k1 L5 J5 OI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
9 i$ j) c  N; {: \- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943

4 S" R2 ?% U$ B8 T$ u7 G8 G" a) M# xIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
- z) X! h4 d: L4 D1 s' Y+ {2 p- Scott Adams

  O$ [3 b! q4 K1 Q  t% R0 {9 Z; XIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
- Anonymous

If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
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+ `$ n* ^; V% H. I" T/ j5 }: ~" o! ?The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
9 U& _: X# ]: M- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric

, {$ P# U: F+ QAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
- Anonymous

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.
; u) J0 P+ v6 Y% G0 ]8 i6 A- Elbert Hubbard
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2 N. x; z3 f/ k# i8 A, |Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
- Y7 I+ n: @( A3 R4 I0 r- David Thornburg
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% o% \, p* K) s, r+ G/ iThose 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

Save early, save often.
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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6 u, L  `# Q0 U6 kBuild early and build often.
- Proprietary developer adage

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
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. v0 Q1 C. U, i$ wIf 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.
3 \2 N" `% H0 w3 I6 s8 T# z$ L+ p- 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.
0 |9 n9 x* l- O6 P, T- Margaret Thatcher
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
- Jerry Olson

' _" X7 ]7 q' }The 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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' t+ n( q8 z) {; SEverything that can be invented has been invented.
# i3 [8 r( ~: Q7 i3 k- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
* }8 C/ f; o: p! G( D  m- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969

Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
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" X, c# b" k" x# BAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
. c3 j; @. r# j& O. s- Gregory Benford
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0 p9 L7 n6 x+ C* S2 eNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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4 u/ ]; Y9 o$ n% y$ c# g! r# i% z. |* IA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
" C& s% [' @8 m$ Y- Alan J. Perlis

$ ?- x9 A& _; ?I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- 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
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The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
- w1 W& K# M" ~, S+ M- Senator Bob Dole
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  B5 v: n$ A2 y& f8 NComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy

$ S5 K6 Q+ r* H9 i  u# m0 yTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
- 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
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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

& `: [# F, V  q$ w$ YThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
3 e3 k4 X' T* a% W4 \- Linus Torvalds

$ ]( [5 n* C/ Q/ ?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.
$ [' O+ T0 c1 U- Linus Torvalds
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Windows is just DOS in drag.
5 \& g0 S- \9 n) k! |% R- Anonymous
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  h2 H/ I  ?/ c6 e6 O& I7 [There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
9 b* Y* H  M1 [$ k2 N) u- k9 P3 F- 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.
- Thomas Edison
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8 [1 d3 m# b/ M" |# ~% hEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D