Fun Quotations

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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
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. X; c$ @2 Z2 J( t5 T! gWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
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" e& d5 Q' k) Z2 Z/ h! ^640K ought to be enough for anybody.
" Q+ d5 J8 n2 f3 ~( x7 }) z- h- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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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

; E+ F1 a" M0 u  @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

$ Q) r8 t& X1 h% }% bFor 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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4 Z& _5 K0 i+ W) v8 D, d, VComputers 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.
; {! [9 o9 F: C% C3 ^& y+ {% U- Andy Rooney
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
) w9 Y' \. G: }: \9 W4 |- Richard Power
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
  a( C& E  O% K" F- 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.
4 t; n# ]$ C" `9 y2 n9 s  R/ P- 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.
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. J4 I* {/ p8 g9 d3 n7 Q% I7 ZIf 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.
; _" e2 F. f& G- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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- T& V: {! ~8 ]# YAt 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.
. Q  [2 @" X/ @- Jeremy S. Anderson

5 T" x7 o6 P; P; C2 E7 COne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
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6 I, a+ _$ V+ ]) BAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
6 t" W- h1 A* k6 H- David Thornburg
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$ |) F! {# e7 S- B- k  U( FThose 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
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Build early and build often.
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Release early and release often.
2 n/ K3 m; j* S8 Z- Open source developer adage
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% M- W/ b5 X% Z& nWe 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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+ W! d9 @5 D$ @1 A* nIf 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.
5 p6 E# E# ^4 o  @: a# m- Margaret Thatcher

The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
- Jerry Olson
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& S; O6 j- b' hThe 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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1 G3 f1 R/ f6 b5 iGARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
" K- g* u; [4 _: L# R* }* h2 d! m- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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; e7 m; C( f- K+ ]% H6 r3 {Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
  R# F4 |, [( _# r' ]. I5 c! O8 R) c- Arthur C. Clarke
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$ F% f& o9 v% {# @( l! nAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
- Gregory Benford
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. U3 x: i, [) A, vNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.
- Anonymous

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
- Alan J. Perlis
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& A! v9 i/ r3 F" OI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- 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

The Internet is a great way to get on the net.
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: ~( m5 b# i! ^$ o: f8 }; q' ?/ y( z9 BComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
7 M- o- q8 ]+ w- S- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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+ Z7 i+ {$ b" ]' [' G 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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9 g0 ]$ [3 s8 C$ }8 v6 i% dTechnology 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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6 }* t* b; K! @! K, n8 g2 ?! PHow could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
- Al Gore on Y2K
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+ R  b9 Q3 k0 t6 G5 [3 B& s& A2 Z9 OThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
- 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.
. i% z8 T( L* b5 b6 ?6 }- Linus Torvalds
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$ _3 g& Y: Q/ C* V$ U. z2 C/ e' tTo 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.
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
4 r6 z, C3 u0 ?4 [- 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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- L% Q, u/ K: r2 H1 I) F" E5 iEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D