Fun Quotations

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

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
- T.S. Elliot
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' o3 ]+ L! D5 G  O3 x$ J640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981

8 a6 s2 L+ ~2 S/ k+ t- N+ C) x. CThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- B. F. Skinner

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

: V  r6 i: c6 N5 VTechnology 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.
* a0 f' M; i' _5 b. Z; n- Andy Rooney

- E( ?: t/ J8 ?' g  a7 YIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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; W7 l3 O# Y8 w/ J! ^If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
- 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.
- Anonymous

If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
4 {6 d9 S0 s& g3 b- Bradley's Bromide
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
/ T4 f# J5 A& G7 Z7 w9 L* v- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric

6 g( U; [5 Z' t6 v* F$ uAt 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.
- Jeremy S. Anderson

- U4 b) I2 e1 V; xOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
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Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
- David Thornburg

8 a  C8 p# T% i( }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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Save early, save often.
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word

Build early and build often.
- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often.
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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.
- 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.
) a  V; b+ Z9 G# a9 m  d- Margaret Thatcher
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+ G- z2 G& j0 A5 l- QThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
4 r8 U! `+ s7 Z0 f- 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.
- Porterfield

Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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: x2 |, p( i7 H4 |( f  [+ w) v4 zGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
4 q0 C$ n& d% \& m$ ?* M- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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, `& i, q4 w! j) B! ^/ g7 T- uAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
2 B/ l/ O3 B" F) j) Q4 ~8 T) X- j- Arthur C. Clarke

Any 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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! c; @4 W6 ^1 y$ QA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison

  X9 x4 e1 Q4 J: ?  A& ]' w( JGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
' \) w* J; M2 a, U( L& F! T0 Y' j- 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.
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Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
, \: d( ?0 J* r' Q7 E) u+ o+ c- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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( q5 H% n6 }+ F) ~ From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
' P! i& \- {; B2 R5 Z9 U- 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.
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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

* ^5 o. Z  S, Y4 m, D; m  AHow 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.
- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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+ G0 C( p' O: ?5 F; K" WThe 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.
+ f4 W: Q. G' h" a' J' o) L- Linus Torvalds
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4 x1 B  j6 B$ s% P; YWindows is just DOS in drag.
- Anonymous
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' v2 a$ `8 A+ r; U$ Q" L7 xThere 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

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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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1 \3 N& [, q7 e& uEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D