Fun Quotations

OliveOil

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
7 e9 \- @4 @* b: a% w. `1 g3 M- Andrew S. Tannenbaum

0 v; {* l+ y4 ?; |( }' I' DWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
- T.S. Elliot

1 a5 E+ k- N& s8 R) g$ Z' B640K ought to be enough for anybody.
% a" r9 A+ }" q! {6 p- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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The 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.
5 X2 A/ ?5 Y* `& j* k- George Pompidou

9 a+ S5 `; p/ {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
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' u6 B. J* f. dFor 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.
( W# V. S5 u" w3 ?0 _- z( d% k- Andy Rooney
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In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
- Richard Power
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1 [" z6 Y$ B/ t" u1 }I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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# x/ F3 r% Q% R& k4 kIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
3 X6 N3 {8 G8 z" o; p$ h9 Z- 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.
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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At some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
9 o% E# G- q6 l- Anonymous

There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
& C" T$ r- w0 X& R* O$ a- Jeremy S. Anderson

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
( p0 g5 W* d# m5 f- Elbert Hubbard

9 [9 P' J, Y( |9 aAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
- David Thornburg
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6 M1 }. |0 x- O3 S8 Y  J/ n+ UThose 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.
/ r1 Z/ t) q3 x: _  v- Anonymous
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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

, ^5 r+ E# w. D1 a! c) ^' {Release early and release often.
- 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.
- 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

There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
0 O. A; J( J$ r/ T  \& c- Margaret Thatcher
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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
- 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.
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" I/ K2 a( {  Y2 u$ bEverything that can be invented has been invented.
" \# k. Z* _7 c8 r  [' a- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969

! j1 n8 l3 u0 k. j1 f# W" ?Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke

4 P# Y1 a* N# r# E8 [* O7 i4 b& eAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
! M( F0 h) [  \7 S6 Z4 I* L3 F- Gregory Benford

Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
1 k# K; C9 t( H0 O* o- Alan J. Perlis
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
; v( U: v( m. H* p- Thomas Edison
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/ S  @; N2 b  v9 |6 BGet your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
8 E4 V, x6 b2 G' b2 d) P+ p. `- 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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4 Z4 H' ^' P4 p1 w1 x: yThe 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.
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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; [7 c+ f; N2 Z; y' F From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
6 _9 \$ N! Z' y0 l- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy

+ D4 r( a- d/ l3 ?* H9 x& ?7 dTechnology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
5 v5 T$ C* |$ d' X( l- Andrew Heller, IBM
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4 y: p7 ~/ V/ N# R& `" s! jAOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos

How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
# @# @! X; l, B' Z! X) @9 k- Al Gore on Y2K

The 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.
; X5 w5 k# t) s1 f5 `  ]- Linus Torvalds
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" I$ C4 w6 o' X, pTo 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.
7 \2 K! ]' ]/ H! o8 i- Linus Torvalds
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: n3 N4 b) I0 |2 K! {  wWindows is just DOS in drag.
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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

) I3 H0 v8 ^/ J0 U! v: m4 a% BEdison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D