Fun Quotations

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

1 `! Q6 I  x8 C. h" W" L# J3 XWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
" \9 E; ]; z8 z3 _! Y2 I* c- T.S. Elliot

640K ought to be enough for anybody.
$ I2 p- G; l; F/ O# v1 ?: o- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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' q  _: D% `, {  _6 ~% KThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
9 u, b: H# n  r- B. F. Skinner
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% D( q# O# H4 I+ e) k8 m% a) W* H2 a+ Z! E# ZThere 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 R/ ]- ]/ z3 e' X( m3 ZTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
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) K, }3 l$ F8 ]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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. ]! A. o2 R* h3 j( s5 g, 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.
2 A2 ?. S% S; B- Andy Rooney

1 u6 A* m: x1 @0 RIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
2 a$ V! `% @; ~- Richard Power

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
2 l1 O( d7 x/ T1 Q) p- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
- 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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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
$ U1 E% P7 Y# M9 T' m# P# c% Y8 l$ ?- Bradley's Bromide
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/ W' r4 h3 ]) t, [' `7 JThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
' b: v, S/ Q0 B2 {* y5 b4 D: m- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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; j+ `& p; O2 Q8 tAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
- Anonymous
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# r% o8 r% F9 e1 H- pThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
) v1 W: b+ B% l% B/ V0 H8 h- Jeremy S. Anderson

& N- A! ^3 L8 ^* W7 R5 gOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard

Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
: n0 v. t; z& N, s9 @- 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.
2 V1 n  [; l% I' m! e8 |- Anonymous
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! S6 [. A! ^6 c8 @; ISave early, save often.
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often.
- Proprietary developer adage
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7 [- H0 x; L% U" SRelease early and release often.
# \7 R0 e/ S8 U6 s* x/ v- Open source developer adage
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- `: l8 e$ B  |2 kWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
6 }5 S, H' L; i& g- 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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There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
, q/ v9 x1 C: A- R+ H! f- Margaret Thatcher
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
9 P* M8 q4 h; @8 [$ f' B2 B- Jerry Olson

8 h* |* ^, h* ^! uThe 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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# K5 V( y2 V4 d8 V  N# FEverything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
% R! k- L0 W4 V% M$ M, x% s- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969

1 r6 b$ @+ R, o( K8 @Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke

Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
  n, |) @7 ]3 J0 F% Z! L- Gregory Benford

/ W& K: a5 R" b1 \# ~Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
- Anonymous

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
  b) R2 [: A3 H2 Y- Alan J. Perlis
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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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+ M2 ^9 `) ]" Q% T* RGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
) s& g4 }% e5 D2 l. `( }4 a- 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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# A: ~1 P$ m# X3 K/ {The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
- Senator Bob Dole
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
' ?  x; a2 T8 J4 t9 [) d2 s- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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3 n/ \* ^# b5 Y* u 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.
. x  s: V1 D9 v9 X8 I! G- Andrew Heller, IBM

AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
0 d: y/ u% t. l- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos

5 O( o( g( [) A6 a; Y  F; _0 U' ^How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
- Al Gore on Y2K
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3 Q: r; u4 D7 `2 HThe 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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/ g* k; r" \, H2 Y' G( ]* R2 V& FTo 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.
; Z1 p+ p' s4 V% Q. {- Linus Torvalds
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7 w7 m1 A; q; y3 x( _Windows is just DOS in drag.
- Anonymous
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
$ a" ~- c% i: u5 D- 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

% }; b) {. i" Q7 X. a( G3 XEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D