Fun Quotations

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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
, e  _1 q8 j6 m- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
) G. S: l$ w* `, H1 c. B; q- T.S. Elliot
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: q3 `: r' h  M6 Y5 w7 i. n& N. N640K ought to be enough for anybody.
4 ^. w0 A) h1 b3 j- k7 ~4 e- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
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  E2 Y# \' q! H; h" |* z  m; zThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- B. F. Skinner

3 n3 I1 p( ?2 }3 y2 s/ F8 M$ ^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.
# f+ J! j5 X5 T2 `* ^- George Pompidou

; S" W& N. u# A- B0 p* _' ITechnology 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

# @" v; B! h' B# k  o0 h7 T/ g( LFor 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.
2 W# N. f. [: _1 Z3 k- Anonymous

( H" Z) Y9 @6 Y2 @' zComputers 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.
$ x1 N9 T8 I" F; H! S- Andy Rooney

In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
3 e& m4 d; G9 Q$ D; f+ `- Richard Power
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( {+ c3 {* [) q8 j$ m# FI think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
+ h6 h0 K7 Q0 F: E  m! [! \- 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 ?0 [5 X$ R% a: @- Scott Adams
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9 L* K. c6 i" b8 F( d1 SIn 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.
$ B% A& e* s6 J# R  t; E' I- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric
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. |8 r" ?( d; W- f2 m$ I, u, T$ rAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
7 H6 |2 u) ]) }, Q' l, \. z2 j/ |- Anonymous
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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.
& r6 b  S& }' I/ B# s7 j, Q2 z- 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.
- Elbert Hubbard
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Any 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

Save early, save often.
4 M8 T( q0 G2 r  m) N) d- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
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! B" i& _* A- W  B$ p! gBuild early and build often.
- Proprietary developer adage

Release early and release often.
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9 F6 N" M% L/ LWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
# @/ ~2 S: u2 F8 z- 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.
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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

* V# `$ ?" [6 _1 h% A8 D: ?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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6 @9 i/ [; a6 m% }! IEverything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
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& Z- o' k3 W! O# i" t6 rAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke

: r1 a0 x0 f) V: p4 Q! d  eAny technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
9 w, [+ e& R1 |- Gregory Benford

# q% E3 [1 s6 B4 M; D" i- S: l3 dNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.
4 `. N6 D0 N. C- Anonymous

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
- Alan J. Perlis
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6 g) `% V: D& C% z. t) WI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison

! M) ?5 ?  \8 LGet 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.
- Senator Bob Dole
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0 s3 j6 T& W: kComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
, W5 z0 S. w# ^" Z- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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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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) ~8 u, M0 o  B* s  _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

How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
% M2 \5 }$ F9 G- Al Gore on Y2K
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$ t* p. ]3 g' uThe modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
7 |$ ~/ p/ \1 w" _; O) H; G) C- Sydney Brenner in 1927
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9 g2 `" F0 Y5 ]2 r0 s# GThe Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
0 u# x1 f- l7 h+ Y# ~# h- 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.
6 Q5 y8 V& J3 A: H4 A4 `. j; u* B- Linus Torvalds
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( q- L# z4 r0 n! K2 D5 Z6 vWindows is just DOS in drag.
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/ D$ Z& G# T' L% f) t5 qThere 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

9 @) Q: ]% H6 D1 B" |5 ^Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D