These are some of our favorite quotations about computers, the Internet, and technology in general.We find it very useful to have a selection of quotations to use whenwe're preparing presentationsand handouts. So enjoy and have your say!
I heard there's rumors on the Internets that we're going to have a draft.
—President George W. Bush, during the second presidential debate
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
- Andrew S. Tannenbaum
Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
- T.S. Elliot
The telephone wire, as we know it, has become too slow and too smallto handle Internet traffic. It took 75 years for telephones to be usedby 50 million customers, but it took only four years for the Internet toreach that many users.- Lori Valigra
640K ought to be enough for anybody.- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates,1981
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.- George Pompidou
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.- Archibald Putt
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.- Anonymous
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the thingsthey 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 fivecomputers.- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user toshow you how it's done.- ScottAdams
In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it wouldhave taken many men many months to equal it.- Anonymous
If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee. Thatwill do them in.
- Bradley'sBromide
The 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
There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX.We don't believe this to be a coincidence.- Jeremy S. Anderson
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can dothe work of one extraordinary man.- Elbert Hubbard
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 calledhardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are calledsoftware.- Anonymous
Save early, save often.- Alwin Lee and everyone else who uses Microsoft Word
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology,in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.- Carl Sagan
If you tried to read every document on the web, thenforeach day's effort you would be a year further behind in your goal.- Anonymous
There might be new technology, but technological progress itself wasnothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.- Margaret Thatcher
The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.- Jerry Olson
The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if theyfoul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.- Porterfield
Build early and build often. - Proprietary developer adage
Release early and release often.- Open source developer adage
Everything that can be invented has been invented.- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents,1899
Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but nomachine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, andunderstanding.- Louis Gerstner, CEO, IBM
GARBAGE IN---GOSPEL OUT- Fairchild Research and Development, 1969
Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishablefrom magic.- Arthur C. Clarke
Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficientlyadvanced.- Gregory Benford
Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.- Anonymous
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believein God.- Alan J. Perlis
I 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 notgoing to buy your product.- Joe Keenan, President of Atari, in 1976 respondingto Steve Jobs' offer to sell him rights to the new personal computer heand Steve Wozniak developed
The Internet is a great way to get on the net.- Senator Bob Dole
Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhapsonly weigh 1 1/2 tons.- Popular Mechanics, 1949
From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said ithad bugs in it.- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy
Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the lessdesirable it becomes.- Andrew Heller, IBM
AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They knowhow to survive.- Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos
How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?- Al Gore on Y2K
The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.- Sydney Brenner in 1927
The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it. - Linus Torvalds
To be a nemesis, you have toactively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'mnot out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be acompletely unintentional side effect. - Linus Torvalds
Windows is just DOS in drag.- Anonymous
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
A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.Doug Linder
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiativein creating theInternet.- Al Gore describing his 1986legislation to interconnect five supercomputer centers (17 years after thefirst Internet servers hooked up)
If Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell-check.- Former Vice President J. Danforth Quayle
The day I made that statement, I was tired because I'd been up allnight inventing the Camcorder.- Al Gore attempting damage control
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