Fun Quotations

OliveOil

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
! R+ W7 P! A! f2 ^$ z2 X1 v- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
- T.S. Elliot
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9 Z* q. a+ E3 n) x# ?- j! ~4 }640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- B. F. Skinner

# v8 s" P0 j  ~6 z6 CThere 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.
- 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.
' t6 E. N' `; T0 h" e% D- Anonymous
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% T; h1 }$ b/ B1 [3 QComputers 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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% ^3 Z4 b5 K8 |) S' q' B9 J! BIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
- Richard Power

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
3 b7 @5 C9 A  }8 y- Scott Adams
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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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3 V+ c: Z+ Y/ x/ ?7 XIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
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: R- ~* F" ?7 D: y- B5 k0 `# NThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
! w3 ~4 `$ `# D9 w0 }5 \6 w1 u- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric

6 z: h, {8 D0 I5 S& G7 F9 `At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
7 D7 v' ]+ g! f" \# P! t- Anonymous

There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
# }+ g: N9 U9 m" ~- Jeremy S. Anderson

: y' E5 B7 ?; k4 v  s+ AOne 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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1 D- D' B% R' g4 \1 HAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
4 C; i2 j) _5 k" V2 h" w3 C- P& H8 ^- David Thornburg
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, m, O, l* U8 p' M. TThose 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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Save early, save often.
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often.
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1 {! r/ d& n# T0 W) xRelease 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.
4 R4 I9 z* Y+ i9 _! ^# m; K- 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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+ D/ f+ @: B5 t- g& O- B. \5 eThere might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
% Q+ T% L& x# O5 v) K4 U+ n: T- Margaret Thatcher
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
* }- `; d5 O4 t2 G3 P- 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.
3 a! _1 p& t( C  `: f9 _- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
; W$ f& F# {* d- x/ U& z/ p$ d- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969

; b/ ~' Z- M7 q. E* }Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke
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" [8 T9 F3 I4 {  XAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
- Gregory Benford
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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6 b/ B3 z0 j4 QA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
- Alan J. Perlis

! v( n4 r/ }+ I2 d! F: ]2 z8 a" tI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison
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7 i4 }& J2 w: O( R- x* _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

  d. A8 L0 O" [  pThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
- Senator Bob Dole
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$ z4 V% ?3 u6 S( P9 K0 L# wComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
* z" v/ f7 H& p3 ?0 k) J* _- Popular Mechanics, 1949

* J5 _3 |, K7 E. ~" o From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
) r) v5 i( I2 c- 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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! e$ |1 o+ `" b: Q! ]" PAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
& `; h5 J' w( b1 u- y; W- 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
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
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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.
- Linus Torvalds

0 a1 X- X3 }' Q% iWindows is just DOS in drag.
- Anonymous

( j% P9 p0 h5 l, ~* D  aThere is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
- 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.
8 t1 R* J* X$ C- Thomas Edison

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