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  • C Chris Maunder

    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

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    Lost User
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    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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    • C Chris Maunder

      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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      Bassam Abdul Baki
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      You're missing the S in Torvalds for the link, but don't quote me on that.

      Web - BM - RSS - Math - LinkedIn

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      • C Chris Maunder

        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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        Lost User
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        I'd rather have a bottle in front of me instead of a frontal lobotomy.

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        • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

          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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          Forogar
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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.

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          • C Chris Maunder

            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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            MacSpudster
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            "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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            • F Forogar

              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.

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              Sander Rossel
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              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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              • C Chris Maunder

                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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                H Brydon
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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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                • H H Brydon

                  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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                  H Brydon
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                  Come to think of it, the original quote is somewhat of a knee slapper too.

                  I'm retired. There's a nap for that... - Harvey

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                  • C Chris Maunder

                    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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                    TheGreatAndPowerfulOz
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                    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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                    • F Forogar

                      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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                      BillW33
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                      Yes, I expect that was true back in 1943 ;)

                      Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.

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                      • M Mark_Wallace

                        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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                        Kyle Moyer
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                        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.

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                        • K Kyle Moyer

                          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.

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                          Mark_Wallace
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                          Unfortunately, there's one thing I can't blame winio for, and that's the 191 lines of reply to you that simply vanished because I dared to use the COMCTL32 Save window (it's not a dialog), which crashed notepad++ simply because I wanted to save what I had already written (I could still see the window, behind the "Notepad++ has crashed" notification, so I know it was 191 lines) (google the problem, and just imagine my anger at having lost so much time because of a @#$%^&* OS error). That problem has existed since weven, and it's a pretty fruggin' major problem, but adding baby blocks and spyware were obviously more important to MS than fixing major problems for their users. I'll go through it all again when my blood pressure drops below volcanic.

                          I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                          • C Chris Maunder

                            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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                            Kevin Marois
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                            Actual call to support: "My cup holder won't open"

                            If it's not broken, fix it until it is

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                            • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

                              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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                              Mark_Wallace
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                              Zeker, maar het was Linux Torvalds.

                              I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                              • C Chris Maunder

                                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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                                RedDk
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                                As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns; the one we don't know we don't know. (IT? Well, in all honesty, I'm sure this nugget was forwarded under truly knowing circumstances. So please forgive me if you deem it not IT)

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                                • J Jacquers

                                  "Have you tried turning it off and on again?"

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                                  maze3
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                                  Like many quotes, people always forget the surrounding context. "Is it switched on?" "Yes." "Have you tried turning it off and on". "Yes."

                                  Jacquers wrote:

                                  "Have you tried turning it off and on again?"

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                                  • C Chris Maunder

                                    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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                                    Duke Carey
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                                    Look, we all have something to bring to this discussion. But I think from now on the thing you should bring is silence. — Arnold Rimmer, Red Dwarf

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                                    • R RedDk

                                      As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns; the one we don't know we don't know. (IT? Well, in all honesty, I'm sure this nugget was forwarded under truly knowing circumstances. So please forgive me if you deem it not IT)

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                                      Jeroen_R
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                                      Was Rumsfeld talking about quantum computing instead of lying about Iraq? :omg:

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                                      • C Chris Maunder

                                        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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                                        Jeroen_R
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                                        What? No-one posted the classic: There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.

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                                        • C Chris Maunder

                                          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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                                          crazedDotNetDev
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                                          "I thought you called to confess." – said by a sysadmin as we investigated why a production server magically rebooted.

                                          - great coders make code look easy - When humans are doing things computers could be doing instead, the computers get together late at night and laugh at us. - ¿Neal Ford?

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