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Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.
Author: Rob Stampfli
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The NeXT Computer: The hardware makes it a PC, the software makes it a workstation, the unit sales makes it a mainframe.
Author: Anonymous
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What goes up must come down. Ask any system administrator.
Author: Anonymous
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Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk?
Author: Anonymous
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Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
Author: Anonymous
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Sped up my XT; ran it on 220v! Works greO?_|.
Author: Anonymous
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If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing.
Author: Anonymous
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Intel has announced its next chip: the Repentium.
Author: Anonymous
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Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand.
Author: Anonymous
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All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
Author: Anonymous
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Want to make your computer go really fast? Throw it out a window.
Author: Anonymous
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If a trainstation is where the train stops, what's a workstation...?
Author: Anonymous
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Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things in that enormous immensity.
Author: Wernher Von Braun
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Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'.
Author: Dave Parnas
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The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m sec sec.
Author: Marcus Dolengo
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It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.
Author: William Gibson
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The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
Author: John F. Kennedy
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That's the nature of researchyou don't know what in hell you're doing. -'Doc' Edgerton.
Author: 'doc' Edgerton
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The secret of science is to ask the right question, and it is the choice of problem more than anything else that marks the man of genius in the scientific world.
Author: Sir Henry Tizard
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There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.
Author: P. W. Bridgman
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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.
Author: Ron Brown
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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
Author: Elias Canetti
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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Author: Albert Gyorgyi
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The two best physicians of them all -- Dr. Laughter and Dr. Sleep.
Author: Gregory Dean Jr.
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What is research, but a blind date with knowledge.
Author: William Henry
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That thou seest, man, become too thou must; God, if thou seest God, dust, if thou seest dust.
Author: Brother Angelus
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However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible.
Author: Lewis Mumford
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Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
Author: Ken Iverson
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I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.
Author: Mark Leeper
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Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it.
Author: Michael Meissner
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In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that that computer has ever linked up to.
Author: Jerry Olson
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Author: B. F. Skinner
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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Author: General Omar Bradley
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I have a spelling checkerIt came with my PC;It plainly marks four my revueMistakes I cannot sea.I've run this poem threw it,I'm sure your pleased too no,Its letter perfect in it's weigh,My checker tolled me sew.
Author: Janet Minor
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Everything that can be invented, has been invented. - 1899.
Author: Charles H. Duell
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. - The Quest for Certainty.
Author: John Dewey
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The dedicated physician is constantly striving for a balance between personal, human values, scientific realities and the inevitabilities of God's will.
Author: Dr. David Allman
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The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
Author: Sir William Bragg
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Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.
Author: Jay Leno
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When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research.
Author: Wilson Mizner
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Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'.
Author: Maxwell Planck
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Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
Author: Jean Rostand
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Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.
Author: Dr. Richard Selzer
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The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
Author: Sydney J. Harris
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Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.
Author: Stewart Alsop
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For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.
Author: Wernher Von Braun
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I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers [on the Net] by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.
Author: Vinton Cerf
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The Internet is like a giant jellyfish. You can't step on it. You can't go around it. You've got to get through it.
Author: John Evans
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
Author: R. Buckminster Fuller
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It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
Author: John Stuart Mill
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