Excellent quotes
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As much as I hate feeding this guy's ego, I do love a good quote. In response to the thread about Linus I was wandering through Wikiquotes[^] and found
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I hope I won't end up having to hunt you all down and kill you in your sleep
It got me thinking: what are your favourite IT related quotes? The "640KB should be good enough for anyone" doesn't count: it's past the statute of limitations.
cheers Chris Maunder
Thomas John Watson Sr. was the chairman and CEO of International Business Machines (IBM) and stated in 1943, "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers". How right he was!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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As much as I hate feeding this guy's ego, I do love a good quote. In response to the thread about Linus I was wandering through Wikiquotes[^] and found
Quote:
I hope I won't end up having to hunt you all down and kill you in your sleep
It got me thinking: what are your favourite IT related quotes? The "640KB should be good enough for anyone" doesn't count: it's past the statute of limitations.
cheers Chris Maunder
Check to see if it floats in salt-water. If it sinks then it was defective.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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As much as I hate feeding this guy's ego, I do love a good quote. In response to the thread about Linus I was wandering through Wikiquotes[^] and found
Quote:
I hope I won't end up having to hunt you all down and kill you in your sleep
It got me thinking: what are your favourite IT related quotes? The "640KB should be good enough for anyone" doesn't count: it's past the statute of limitations.
cheers Chris Maunder
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As much as I hate feeding this guy's ego, I do love a good quote. In response to the thread about Linus I was wandering through Wikiquotes[^] and found
Quote:
I hope I won't end up having to hunt you all down and kill you in your sleep
It got me thinking: what are your favourite IT related quotes? The "640KB should be good enough for anyone" doesn't count: it's past the statute of limitations.
cheers Chris Maunder
"It works on my machine."
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As much as I hate feeding this guy's ego, I do love a good quote. In response to the thread about Linus I was wandering through Wikiquotes[^] and found
Quote:
I hope I won't end up having to hunt you all down and kill you in your sleep
It got me thinking: what are your favourite IT related quotes? The "640KB should be good enough for anyone" doesn't count: it's past the statute of limitations.
cheers Chris Maunder
For comedy value, you can't beat: "Windows 10 is the best Windows ever!"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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As much as I hate feeding this guy's ego, I do love a good quote. In response to the thread about Linus I was wandering through Wikiquotes[^] and found
Quote:
I hope I won't end up having to hunt you all down and kill you in your sleep
It got me thinking: what are your favourite IT related quotes? The "640KB should be good enough for anyone" doesn't count: it's past the statute of limitations.
cheers Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote:
what are your favourite IT related quotes?
How is yours IT related? ;)
Read my (free) ebook Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly. Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles here on CodeProject.
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra
Regards, Sander
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As much as I hate feeding this guy's ego, I do love a good quote. In response to the thread about Linus I was wandering through Wikiquotes[^] and found
Quote:
I hope I won't end up having to hunt you all down and kill you in your sleep
It got me thinking: what are your favourite IT related quotes? The "640KB should be good enough for anyone" doesn't count: it's past the statute of limitations.
cheers Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
what are your favourite IT related quotes?
How is yours IT related? ;)
Read my (free) ebook Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly. Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles here on CodeProject.
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra
Regards, Sander
Well, at least you're not a Linux evangelist.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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As much as I hate feeding this guy's ego, I do love a good quote. In response to the thread about Linus I was wandering through Wikiquotes[^] and found
Quote:
I hope I won't end up having to hunt you all down and kill you in your sleep
It got me thinking: what are your favourite IT related quotes? The "640KB should be good enough for anyone" doesn't count: it's past the statute of limitations.
cheers Chris Maunder
David Bradley was the guy that wrote the original code for CTRL-ALT_DEL to reboot the IBM PC. During a 20 year PC anniversary event Bradley and Bill Gates were both on stage as part of a panel discussion when the topic of the keys came up. "I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous." ~ David Bradley (IBM retired) Gates didn't laugh.
That's what I do. I drink, and I know things. ~ Tyrion Lannister
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As much as I hate feeding this guy's ego, I do love a good quote. In response to the thread about Linus I was wandering through Wikiquotes[^] and found
Quote:
I hope I won't end up having to hunt you all down and kill you in your sleep
It got me thinking: what are your favourite IT related quotes? The "640KB should be good enough for anyone" doesn't count: it's past the statute of limitations.
cheers Chris Maunder
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As much as I hate feeding this guy's ego, I do love a good quote. In response to the thread about Linus I was wandering through Wikiquotes[^] and found
Quote:
I hope I won't end up having to hunt you all down and kill you in your sleep
It got me thinking: what are your favourite IT related quotes? The "640KB should be good enough for anyone" doesn't count: it's past the statute of limitations.
cheers Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
what are your favourite IT related quotes?
How is yours IT related? ;)
Read my (free) ebook Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly. Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles here on CodeProject.
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra
Regards, Sander
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As much as I hate feeding this guy's ego, I do love a good quote. In response to the thread about Linus I was wandering through Wikiquotes[^] and found
Quote:
I hope I won't end up having to hunt you all down and kill you in your sleep
It got me thinking: what are your favourite IT related quotes? The "640KB should be good enough for anyone" doesn't count: it's past the statute of limitations.
cheers Chris Maunder
"The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac." "The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it." Yup, from my signature below...
The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac. The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it. ~ my brother Jeff
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Obviously you haven't had to work with Marketing!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
I never said it didn't apply to IT. I'm simply saying not only to IT. More like, anyplace anywhere anytime :)
Read my (free) ebook Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly. Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles here on CodeProject.
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra
Regards, Sander
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As much as I hate feeding this guy's ego, I do love a good quote. In response to the thread about Linus I was wandering through Wikiquotes[^] and found
Quote:
I hope I won't end up having to hunt you all down and kill you in your sleep
It got me thinking: what are your favourite IT related quotes? The "640KB should be good enough for anyone" doesn't count: it's past the statute of limitations.
cheers Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote:
what are your favourite IT related quotes?
"I have only proved the joke funny; I did not try it" ... a misquote of D.E.Knuth who famously said "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.", described here[^].
I'm retired. There's a nap for that... - Harvey
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Chris Maunder wrote:
what are your favourite IT related quotes?
"I have only proved the joke funny; I did not try it" ... a misquote of D.E.Knuth who famously said "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.", described here[^].
I'm retired. There's a nap for that... - Harvey
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As much as I hate feeding this guy's ego, I do love a good quote. In response to the thread about Linus I was wandering through Wikiquotes[^] and found
Quote:
I hope I won't end up having to hunt you all down and kill you in your sleep
It got me thinking: what are your favourite IT related quotes? The "640KB should be good enough for anyone" doesn't count: it's past the statute of limitations.
cheers Chris Maunder
linky no worky
#SupportHeForShe Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Thomas John Watson Sr. was the chairman and CEO of International Business Machines (IBM) and stated in 1943, "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers". How right he was!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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For comedy value, you can't beat: "Windows 10 is the best Windows ever!"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
I'm never sure if I've heard a joke somewhere or made it up myself (I like to think the latter) but... What's the difference between Windows 1.0 and Windows 10? Windows 10 has no point! I'll get my coat.
