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
"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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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
W∴ Balboos wrote:
If it sinks then it was defective.
NoNoNo.... If it floats, it's defective. If it sinks, it was good. (If the floaters were good, you'd have to keep using them...)
Truth, James
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W∴ Balboos wrote:
If it sinks then it was defective.
NoNoNo.... If it floats, it's defective. If it sinks, it was good. (If the floaters were good, you'd have to keep using them...)
Truth, James
Take your laptop, or better still, you cell phone, and test my hypothesis.
"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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Take your laptop, or better still, you cell phone, and test my hypothesis.
"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
I think you're missing the point (the point: You want to ensure the thing being "tested" is replaced, one way or another)
Truth, James
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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
One of my favourites of all time: "More people have ascended bodily to heaven than have shipped great software on time." Jim McCarthy One of my co-workers once said in a meeting in which we were discussing
null: "There are many different kinds of nothing." Trevor Stokes :)Cheers, Mike Fidler "I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright "I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright "I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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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.
In his defense, he meant ROOM SIZED mainframes that required $$$millions of investments, tons of air conditioning, and "operators" to "operate" the dang thing. He was not thinking "toys" people would carry with them and continuously be distracted by :-)
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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
A story I was told by an engineer at One IBM Plaza in Chicago, IL was that there was a model of the S/360 that was so buggy that the engineers threw it into Lake Michigan where it...
Sank intermittently.
Psychosis at 10 Film at 11 Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it. Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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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
When I was in the Army, equipment troubleshooting always began with... Make sure the O N O F F switch is in the O N position.
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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
Back in the Windows 95 age i had a program which throwed a random message from it's messagelist each day. A few nice ones i still remember: 2B or not 2B, that's FF. On an empty disk u can seek forever. Press once to quit, twice to save. Besides this i always loved DeeDee (from Dexter's laboratory), "Dexter, what does this buttton doooo?" (Asking while trying) And last but not least comming from a programmers book, don't recall which. "There's no program on earth without a bug." <- Explaining that environmentissues can always let a program misbehave.