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| Submitted by Heather: When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly. Arrogance is a kingdom without a crown. --American Proverb A sharp tongue and a dull mind are usually found in the same head. Let thy word be a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. Psalm 119:105 Submitted by Mia: Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats. --Howard Aiken (1900 - 1973) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving. --Russell Green When you come to a fork in the road, take it. --Yogi Berra (1925 - ) Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy. -Jim Hightower, The New York Times, March 9, 1986 There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -Ken Olsen (1926 - ), President, Digital Equipment, 1977 The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We causeaccidents. --Nathaniel Borenstein Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. --Pablo Picasso (1881 -1973) The computer is a moron. --Peter Drucker If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enabled and no-one dares criticize it. -Pierre Gallois Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. -Rich Cook To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so. -Robert Orben If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. -Robert Cringely, InfoWorld magazine Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons. -unknown, Popular Mechanics, March 1949 For God so loved the world, he didn't send a committee. |
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