Fun Quotations

OliveOil

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
/ ~  c6 A9 i4 c4 ]: W  m7 {8 K- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981

2 d9 X( P% T: bThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
% q+ l8 z9 S$ Z( D- B. F. Skinner

5 o2 z/ }7 B% vThere 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

/ v8 X5 {4 a7 o$ u1 @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
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$ p; C* n* O; z6 [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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# |* \% ]; I' }9 r" K& N. u) IComputers 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.
% \) j7 n( q9 Q8 d- Andy Rooney
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& @! g3 o0 v# N. v. V& K+ O7 xIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
- Richard Power

- b. o+ v  [0 `1 |) W* Z" _I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
2 m9 G' h  R1 v( B) X6 W0 W& I( {) G- 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.
# f4 s. w, T- C- a1 o; h- E- Scott Adams

In 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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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
. i: M# d$ H$ }5 b/ A- Bradley's Bromide
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- X& e/ d3 T6 @The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
8 ~, d" c4 t5 x: A( K9 M# ~- w1 X- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric

At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
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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.
. ]2 X3 e( }* J# `8 a# O- Jeremy S. Anderson
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9 ~6 i" Q- }  p$ L6 P: A% EOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard

$ x0 G" ~% Y3 E8 e+ sAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
- David Thornburg

# m+ R% y- m. B' p$ ~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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8 k- I5 e+ k; s* ]4 e' [Save early, save often.
6 V# Y$ x& ?* f) M6 s4 l1 |* A- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word

Build early and build often.
6 R& v1 @) x) ^: W* T- Proprietary developer adage
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/ K% f" P0 [2 K( N3 w9 e( ?Release early and release often.
9 s$ V8 P* A% a9 c* J) Q- 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
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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.
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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.
- Margaret Thatcher

: A* E2 i9 K2 Y( M* a9 P8 A6 H$ O4 cThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
- Jerry Olson

The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.
& e3 N$ U- y& B. T: C- |- Porterfield

, G0 L$ P' S, W2 O1 G% }Everything that can be invented has been invented.
# g: q/ G$ c5 B) Y' @" a; A- 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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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke

6 ~1 Q+ w  r( NAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
- Gregory Benford
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$ }) B$ P7 W+ _& fNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.
- Anonymous
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- g  E. S/ h8 O9 ?% G2 q2 kA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
- Alan J. Perlis
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# e- |* G2 T- d8 [I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
2 D% g/ s: T+ q( F; y' W- Thomas Edison

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: R; L! q  K- D  m# F/ dThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
" \3 ~4 y4 N4 E# u: {; A- Senator Bob Dole

Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
& b! ~- v- {+ o( F  z- 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

: q4 B7 m7 l7 |0 g6 iTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
- Andrew Heller, IBM

/ N/ V! G3 D) c4 f4 U  T0 s) lAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
! ~3 r  G6 o+ ~; T- j- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos

How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
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8 X  [3 @$ P  w6 r9 wThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
- Sydney Brenner in 1927

' K& d9 J0 ]/ u% Z$ W4 {6 c* y% h; F1 CThe 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

Windows is just DOS in drag.
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% q2 b" _: ?: B1 R1 i  }There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
: z# L6 u( c9 C( [$ o- 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 {% m; _" w& C0 Q- Thomas Edison

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