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“Foolproof systems don’t take into account the ingenuity of fools.” — Gene Brown.
“I can’t uninstall it, there seems to be some kind of ‘Uninstall Shield’.”
“Crap… Someone knocked over my recycle bin… There’s icons all over my desktop…” — billiam.
“I have NOT lost my mind — I have it backed up on tape somewhere.”
“If you can’t beat your computer at chess, do what I did — try kick-boxing.” — Matt Larson.
“No printing is permitted of this book.This book cannot be given to someone else.This book cannot be read aloud.” — License terms for Adobe ebooks.
“Smash forehead on keyboard to continue…”
“Enter any 11-digit prime number to continue…”
“Technology is always first developed for one of four things:
The Military
Sexual Urges
Easy Money
Security (making sure the above services are properly paid for).If we can’t have sex with it, blow it up, or make loads of cash off of it, we’re just not interested.” — tcd004.
“You know you’re a geek when… You try to shoo a fly away from the monitor with your cursor. That just happened to me. It was scary.” — Juuso Heimonen.
“We will never become a truly paper-less society until the Palm Pilot folks come out with WipeMe 1.0.” — Andy Pierson.
“Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more user-friendly… Their best approach, so far, has been to take all the old brochures, and stamp the words, ‘user-friendly’ on the cover.” — Bill Gates.
“This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.” — Western Union internal memo, 1876.
“Everything that can be invented has been invented.” — Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.
“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” — Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.
“But what… is it good for ?” — An engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, commenting on the microchip in 1968.
“There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.” — Ken Olson, president/founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977.
“In the future, airplanes will be flown by a dog and a pilot. And the dog’s job will be to make sure that if the pilot tries to touch any of the buttons, the dog bites him.” — Scott Adams
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