Fun Quotations

OliveOil

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
6 ?% t% m6 c! W8 K' A- Andrew S. Tannenbaum

' m6 o; N. [4 B, SWhere is all the knowledge we lost with information?
- T.S. Elliot
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- 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.
* s# ], ^/ d2 a, Q- g- George Pompidou
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. ?: `1 F4 n4 z% s# M; U3 ~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.
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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.
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( j; A: Z0 W& N; aComputers 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.
: `5 e% t5 G' g% j4 E! L7 Z- Andy Rooney

& ^# o8 j( x$ Y) C% TIn the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.
- Richard Power
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, q  X. E0 M$ m7 b& T5 V/ ?I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
+ n, ~4 B; x; O- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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+ w/ H6 m; X% @; hIf you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
4 n( N% z7 G" \: w% N  t* M1 P$ Z% e- Scott Adams
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' s, J2 h& F- ?. c7 k& ~4 A2 a& NIn 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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# u8 _' q, z" ?) e: M: y# sIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. That will do them in.
- Bradley's Bromide
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: T% _& A4 _7 J" n1 l; rThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
2 m+ ?9 H; N3 l: l, A+ ?- Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO, General Electric

! E6 G/ t- u6 P; Q. D/ q3 tAt some point...we must have faith in the intelligence of the end user.
- 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.
3 S% m) g3 D& ?- 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.
- X) Z7 e- b9 k5 c2 a- Elbert Hubbard
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& l1 s# p# p7 u: R" K/ f) j8 T. yAny teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
3 N5 ^! [$ W  ~: o- David Thornburg
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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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Save early, save often.
- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word

9 w; _* x3 U: J2 y- aBuild early and build often.
- Proprietary developer adage
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Release early and release often.
- Open source developer adage
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; y& l: D2 Y/ C$ y# c1 hWe 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.
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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
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( P3 X8 a! {- C+ ?7 z! {) jThe last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
/ ^, Y. Q  F1 p. f- D- Jerry Olson
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9 I! j, z% Y0 Q: @3 e; bThe most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.
5 o& `* U% R$ y- a; n% F0 @( u- V- Porterfield

0 C# T8 \$ `( ?+ K) I9 [Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

' l- `1 ]/ e: m# _GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT
- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969

* j, s1 {% O# X0 v% [9 O! @5 T! y1 LAny science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke

Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
( M% H" |  N$ O  ?7 |" n. `& J& @- Gregory Benford
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( p# f5 _5 U9 x; }0 }+ j1 R3 cNever let a computer know you're in a hurry.
7 U2 e# g$ H6 ?0 w7 ~! s- Anonymous
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4 h+ @, D/ f- T7 r: bA year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
- Alan J. Perlis
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4 Q1 p' t& W9 w5 n3 kI have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison
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- k1 G6 F# E: _5 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

& r& m0 l1 \3 a* c! z- C5 BThe Internet is a great way to get on the net.
- Senator Bob Dole
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' F0 o( l4 I8 h5 a. ]: nComputers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
" F/ p& ^  U' {2 m* h2 S- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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+ z6 \* N+ u& m* O1 } From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
& b/ m' w+ _9 p: a$ I- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
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0 w5 |! r  {& a" K, oTechnology 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.
- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
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How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
3 v+ k1 k& W: h- 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.
9 M0 R/ i% K/ e# P- 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.
- Linus Torvalds
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/ `) l: Q& U3 G- XWindows is just DOS in drag.
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( B1 |* N: [0 lThere 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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Edison was so cool, hehe!!!    My idol:D