Fun Quotations

OliveOil

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
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& P2 Z) g, J  p, NWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
- T.S. Elliot

640K ought to be enough for anybody.
4 t0 z: }: s  b8 E) {  U% X/ d- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- B. F. Skinner
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8 [! R0 U% {% z8 w* d1 X% bThere 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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8 i, ]: M: I! ~, T' cTechnology 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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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.
9 K: y( S2 b, j' D- Anonymous

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.
- Andy Rooney

In 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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3 I0 E' S8 ]# x/ Y( y1 A/ gIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
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0 ?4 F% B2 X, M, D) g0 VIn 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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0 A) n3 d# [: [If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
- Bradley's Bromide
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, N3 q1 F. \$ S3 y1 w( N/ R4 cThe 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.
- Anonymous
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% p" N! z, j6 W3 t, MThere are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
0 b' o6 g  ^) c5 j" h) k% X4 {* w- Jeremy S. Anderson

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
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8 g6 k* i% Y* p- l! NAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
- 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.
- Anonymous
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' \4 F: |2 a- k  WSave early, save often.
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( [7 \6 \+ t5 D6 j. ^Build early and build often.
9 d4 P: W1 _- v8 |" B- Proprietary developer adage

/ g! z$ u2 |3 @- A  IRelease early and release often.
7 r, ~6 }* D4 s5 l% K- 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 x( Y1 l' r5 V2 e- Carl Sagan

8 |7 `( J( P  YIf 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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2 O) M: Y1 Z) }There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
/ Y' u8 u: E6 p; N  t4 B- Margaret Thatcher
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
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, f+ C6 V0 ^" F" YThe 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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1 U6 v/ [& ?4 M8 tEverything that can be invented has been invented.
, _, |: x" l4 U3 l- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

! A9 E& D3 b4 `GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969

6 j( ^2 ~1 u: L* U6 FAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke
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Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
. O+ j8 i7 t( U" e, r2 J) U- Gregory Benford
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Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
- Anonymous

# c' n" }. R2 R( nA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
- Alan J. Perlis
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison

% w0 i8 e4 X# I+ a) PGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
' v3 z( e8 [$ P3 _# ~- 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.
& d% L% ?  r8 [& g6 l- 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.
$ Z, O: F$ T. b- Popular Mechanics, 1949

0 d7 S) w! }* C* n" x 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.
- Andrew Heller, IBM

AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
/ b4 L5 S# Z; [' _- j$ r- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos

. a4 Z4 x3 s, [" v2 y% KHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
* V* i  Y* ]7 B' Y- Al Gore on Y2K
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
) \2 }5 t0 e4 p, _) r- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
3 j: G% ]% C: c- Linus Torvalds
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/ N1 c- C# h) |7 R0 ZTo 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.
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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.
- 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.
- Thomas Edison
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3 W4 T4 S1 h8 L+ bEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D