Fun Quotations

OliveOil

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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- |, a, j  U+ k, f; zWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
/ S% a) l6 w( \' l4 V& C8 L8 s- T.S. Elliot

7 S! A7 h6 m" [: n& D0 l640K ought to be enough for anybody.
6 w+ G; Q. w2 X1 S# A- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981

2 M2 D5 c3 _8 u" s5 FThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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- p5 }3 E- U4 R" _1 @* iThere 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.
! n4 [5 _9 Z" S/ G2 k/ G: i- George Pompidou
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  ]. h, z. [2 t7 n0 {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.
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; V/ i5 Q" i% k1 m3 ]# ^( rComputers 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.
  e( v! Q0 R' `( G" O- Andy Rooney

4 V5 O5 K# g  y2 F& J! }& W0 T9 ~In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
2 T7 W+ c+ F2 Z0 H& M! q- 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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0 V6 C$ E3 h) [+ |2 Q! }5 NIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
- 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.
. ?9 u# l- ]. z8 i5 r- Jeremy S. Anderson
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
' y+ y; h' P' O" r/ ?2 P) i* a- Elbert Hubbard
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- o" i  z+ W2 N5 H  uAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
2 {$ t6 Z* E! G- David Thornburg

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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1 ^( W3 T% b: a" ]; o; V: |9 vSave early, save often.
7 P( e# w% c4 q6 C6 ]4 P- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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Build early and build often.
- w6 x8 r3 x( [5 x4 }7 C3 m- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often.
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* F) i3 u6 v1 M/ _; d" l$ gWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
- Carl Sagan

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.
- Margaret Thatcher

The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
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/ h2 H/ }5 i' c, [5 c4 UThe 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

' j' G, X0 A0 o: y7 e6 uGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
/ A' t: X( Q2 o$ s' z1 [- b- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
; X' p7 `/ K& C1 t2 h  ]- Arthur C. Clarke

3 a/ h5 P, b# O( K3 r5 |9 a; J4 gAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
" t/ f3 `4 j5 e& ?& n- Gregory Benford

) ~- b3 B" m' L# m6 _6 VNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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: ^) X$ c* i6 d! EA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
- Alan J. Perlis

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison

, d0 B* [, ^0 ]* dGet 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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- I) U  {% E0 Z# gThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
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( |0 |5 t- g! y4 V, }* Z/ }Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
; n' R1 T' s. A& @* X+ [- Popular Mechanics, 1949

7 i% _. [0 {  q( c# f From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy

+ L' W" P* N2 q4 J# V! R$ HTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
- Andrew Heller, IBM
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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
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' F' m, r# w1 ]* @; r$ G( }How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
6 Z9 t- T1 e1 Y) k$ j6 t# Q" P2 r; {0 r- Al Gore on Y2K
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# l" l# s2 o  a+ S% |' fThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
" S% @! a+ ^# r  ~  u- Sydney Brenner in 1927

/ j( _' O& y* N/ K1 p  _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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4 r* T% F% G" {& `5 x9 t. ?6 JTo 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 {6 q5 \& m; q  g) WWindows is just DOS in drag.
- Anonymous
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
4 G- W6 W9 \) Z  N3 v3 _' S0 S# Z- 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.
0 B. _) K; Y. }: `0 o" L8 `8 z- Thomas Edison

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