some cool (?) computer quotes

Courtesy various friends and internet activists - hope you're all flattered by me quoting your quotes?

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.

"Remember HAL shift-right 1 = IBM."
Neal Tvedt
(HAL was the computer with a mind of its own in 2001 - a Space Odyssey)

"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year."
The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957.

"Nu är det sagt så, och då är det så, och då är det det som gäller"
Löjtnant Holm

"Why is it that these application developers insist on using the framework? Why can't they do what we do; lean back and admire the beautiful  indentation?"
Peter Back, on first delivery of the eonworx foundation (fall 2000)

"But what ... is it good for?"
Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977.

"Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand."
Putt's Law

"DOS addresses only 1 Megabyte of RAM because we cannot imagine any applications needing more."
Microsoft, 1980, on the development of DOS

"Windows NT addresses 2 Gigabytes of RAM which is more than any application will ever need"
Microsoft, 1992, on the development of Windows NT

"Of course, part of what we're seing here at Comdex is a strong message: We believe OS/2 is the platform for the 90's"
Bill Gates, Comdex 1990.

"Windows NT 3.5 is not designed to route packets. . .so your Internet Service Provider cannot be a Windows NT 3.5 box."
Microsoft, 1995, on Win NT RAS  (didn't they say NT would take over the Internet?)

"...Unix, MS-DOS, and Windows NT (also known as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)."
Matt Welsh

"UNIX is user-friendly ... it's just selective about who its friends are!!"
Anonymous UNIX wit

"Of course Java will succeed! How could it not? There's not a damn new thing in it!"
James Gosling

"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already  tomorrow in Australia."
Charles Schultz

"The Word Processor's Rule: Nothing highlights a document as much as a failure in the spele checker"
Arild Jensen

"Boxology: The art of connecting boxes with arrows"
Philippe Kruchten

"Every Computer Scientist Should Go Meta At Least Once In Their Life"
Dave Thomas

"The UNIX Guru's View of Sex:
$ unzip; strip; touch; finger; mount; fsck; more; yes; umount; sleep"
Jeremy D. Zawodny

"Those who say it can't be done should not interrupt those who are doing it."
John Dromgoole

Not much to do with programming, but a profound statement if ever I saw one...

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