All entries for Thursday 24 June 2004

Fab technology quotations – Thursday afternoon chuckle

Saying that Windows is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the second coming. — Guy Kawasaki

Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software. — Unknown author, Levitating Trains and Kamikaze Genes: Technological Literacy for the 1990's, describing the difference between computer hardware and software

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. — Scott Adams

640K ought to be enough for anybody. – Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981

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

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. – IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943

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

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